XPost: rec.music.makers.trumpet, rec.music.makers, rec.arts.movi   
   s.current-films   
   From: peter@new.co.za   
      
   The new Harry Potter film has a scene where a brass band plays a mixture   
   of conventional and peculiar music. There's an identifiable trumpet and   
   tuba, but also a number of instruments of different sizes with various   
   configurations of horns.   
      
   It may well all be a bit of fun with these having no connection to any   
   real instrument that does, or has existed. However, I was interested in   
   an article in the Scientific American a year or so ago about a collector   
   of cornets who had around 900 different examples - the photograph showed   
   extremely different and some very odd looking ones. He'd used software   
   used in biological taxonomy (cladistics) to try to trace the   
   evolutionary path of instrument design - it didn't work completely as   
   instrument makers see examples of other makers ideas and copy them thus   
   allowing cross-fertilization between different 'species' of horn.   
      
   So my question was really if anybody here had seen the film and had a   
   comment on the brass instruments shown.   
      
      
      
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