@SuitedUpDev
Once I turned 60, and especially after I no longer had a job to go to, I ceased caring what anyone else thinks about my appearance. I mean that in a healthy way. I think that's true for most men my age, unless you're a narcissist. 🤷♂️
Opened this up for the first time in ~6 years. I stopped playing completely when I left the Army in 2009.
I bought this in 1983, I think (with a little help from Mom & Dad). My first — and only — professional Horn. The detachable bell is in the top half of the case, out of sight. It's a Yamaha YHR-862: a big bore, big throated Kruspe wrapped Horn. Perfect for Concert Band or a large Orchestra (Mahler), when you need to project.
You could point out the Cello has a similar range, tone, sonority... but the Cello can't project the power that a brass instrument can. Because brass instruments are powered by human breath: there's more human soul there by the very nature of the instruments.
This is a fine performance. But the ex-military Horn player in me (US Army 1986-2009) needs to know the economics of performing after beats in the range of a perfect 5th (or even a 3rd for the lower parts) on a Horn that costs over $7k?
Many people don't understand why I chose to play the Horn... and particularly why I chose to try to make a career of it. Well, it started in grade school, at Miller Elementary School. We got to choose instruments in 4th grade. I chose Trumpet or Drums. They went alphabetically, and by the time they got to me (H)... Trumpets and Drums were gone.
@chessert
I learnt the cello because at our school, a terms instrument tuition (beyond the recorder) was compulsory. Then I arrived late (typical), the violas and violins were gone and I was too small to carry the double bass onto the bus.
Meanwhile I still
Play (as well as a number of other instruments) to the horror of the animals, the regret of my partner and the despair of our kids…
@chessert it frequently happens to me. One or two sometimes cats sitting on my head or my partners, but excusing themselves in the basis that the new clock is difficult to read I. The dark.
Only Benjamin Netanyahu could bring me to consider rooting for Iran. Consider what you have permanently(?) lost, Israel. Sympathy is gone. I hope you all enjoy the Gaza beach condos Jared Kushner will build (with Saudi money), on the skeletons of murdered Palestinians. Just my own observation: YMMV, of course... and I'll still try to respect that.