A REAL TRUMPET
S14,—It is unjust of your correspondent G. II, Wilbraham to blame the German horn fot• the unpleasant horn tone of Many of out orchestras today. The fault lies with the con- ductors and with the players, who make little attempt to adapt their tone and style of playing to the music being performed. '
The German horn is quite capable of pro? ducing as fine a tone as the less secure and less accurate French horn, as players like Dennis Brain and Douglas Moore have shown. When carelessly played, howeveat and when played at full volume, it has a. blatant, blaring quality quite unknown tp composers before the twentieth century. I4 the performance of music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it is necessary that the German-horn player should moderate his attack and tone in order to produce the kind of sound that the composer intended.--Yours
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