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In Reply to: RE: I'd humbly add that it also depends upon where an instrument was made; French-made instruments have a posted by jdaniel@jps.net on March 20, 2016 at 13:17:52
that subject is probably more esoteric and specialized than what most here want to discuss. I fully agree, however. Certainly flute, oboe and clarinet makers and players of the late 19th century had a major impact on Western music, first in the era of Berlioz and Saint-Saens, and then even more so through Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky.
I think the advent of larger concert halls, broadcasting and recording has had a major impact on traditional instruments, and sometimes character has been sacrificed for loudness and brilliance.
So it may be getting close to the point where were can seriously talk about Berlioz or even Debussy on original instruments, and some argue we are already there.
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I've even had the misfortune to own some of it (and there's a lot more where this came from):
The singers are great! The orchestra, not so much!
and I somehow can't imagine that the 'Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique' would be playing on 'period instruments' unless, of course, we're talking Berlioz's 'period' and that's OK by me!
Hey - I can respect that. And a couple of the other singers are excellent too (as I mentioned). But the orchestra IS playing on period instruments (even though from Berlioz' period), resulting in an all-too-typical dull, weak and desiccated sonority relative to modern instruments and techniques (IMHO!).
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I think it's a full octave glissando for piccolo, flute and oboe. A fingered glissando is very different and possibly more difficult or even impossible for modern instruments with keys than it would be for the baroque or classical ones with few or no keys. The baroque and classical fingered vibrato Chris from Lafayette and I were discussing would also be difficult to achieve with a modern flute. That is probably what you are referring to.
Of course, winds can do a lipped glissando (e.g., the clarinet solo at the beginning of Rhapsody In Blue), but reeds are far better for this than flutes or piccolos. It's tough to do a lipped glissando on the flute for much more than a full tone, and on the piccolo it's even harder.
There is now something called the glissando headjoint for flutes that slides in a sleeve like a trombone. With that, you can do a true sliding glissando.
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