minstrel: brass fanfares

[Dustin]

on 6/1/03 1:12 AM, toni seales at antoniadg at yahoo.com wrote:

> I took up trombone, being told a 'hackbut' is a good inexpensive loud band
> instrument.  I like it enough to start looking for a real sackbut.
> 
Oklahoma University had loaned my friend a sackbut and it looked just like a
smaller version of the trombone and it was a bit more quite. Despite the
fact that it says "Sackbut" on the CD insert, I think the horn player for
the "Waites of Southwark" plays a trombone (great band).

> We've been asked to do little announcements before courts, and I've been
> looking for early fanfares.  Since the brass instuments basically do fourths
> and fifths easily, I can't tell which are older or newer.  Any starting points
> would be appreciated.
> 
"Music for Royal and Festive Occasions" by Samuel Piper (Steven Hendrix) is
a great place to start for period fanfares. There is an SCA webpage that has
a lot of his music in PDF format:
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/
the music is divided by read titles.

>Also! I would like to get a lead for the 'eppinette' dulcimer relative if that
gentleman has any internet sites I could go to.

What is an eppiette dulcimer?


Morgan Ellisse

P.s I wish we had someone to play trombone/sackbut at our court, I might
come to court if there was fanfares (I belive there are in the Shire above
us, Mooneshadowe). I have tried to play court before and it has always ended
in frustration.