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Rocker wrote:Jimi Hendrix:

RH Fender Strat setup for leftieRH Gibson Flying Vee setup for leftie

both into Marshall amp at 11.......

I was wondering how long it would take for that one to come up Tom!

Jose Echenique wrote:Boccherini- cello
Paganini- violin
Frescobaldi- cembalo

That is one that I will have to look into Pepe!

Diapason wrote:I have to say, I don't know how to answer this apart from
Mozart - Clarinet....

Very subtle actually Simon....good one!

John Cage 4' 33'' of nonsense.

John Cage -- prepared piano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_piano
Messiaen -- Ondes Martenot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot

Seán wrote:John Cage 4' 33'' of nonsense.

A veritable masterpiece Seán!!!


As James has indicated what comes to my mind when I think of Cage (not very often) is prepared piano.

a couple of more obvious ones:

Bruch: Violin... he wrote three VCs, a Serenade and Scottish fantasy for the instrument.
Weber: Clarinet... his two delicious concerti are must-haves for even a beginner's collection.

a less obvious one:

Sainte Colombe: Violes Esgales (French Viol)

and how about:

RVW: Bass tuba... the only person to take pity on the instrument and write a little concerto for it!!

I also think the following:

Haydn/ Mozart/ Hummel: Oboe... the golden age of the concerto

likewise:

Haydn/ Hummel/ Hertel/ Stamitz/ L Mozart/ Telemann: Trumpet... the golden age of the concerto

I believe Wagner used a certain instrument quite regularly; kind of a cross between a tuba and a horn. Not sure what it was called, but he used it so deftly that they might as well name it after him....

;-)

bombasticDarren wrote:I believe Wagner used a certain instrument quite regularly; kind of a cross between a tuba and a horn. Not sure what it was called, but he used it so deftly that they might as well name it after him....

;-)

didn't he glue them onto the sides of the Teutonic helmets of the cast??

Jared wrote: I also think the following:

Haydn/ Mozart/ Hummel: Oboe... the golden age of the concerto

Interestingly, after Bach my other main association for the oboe would be with Albinoni.