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Article: Valved Brass: The History of an Invention.(Book review)
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Valved Brass: The History of an Invention. By Christian Ahrens, Translated by Steven Plank. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2008. (Bucina, the Historic Brass Society Series, no. 7.) [xiii, 135 p. ISBN-13: 9781576471371. $42.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliography, index.
The history of valved brass instruments up to now has been told as a history of an invention, with a focus on design and manufacture. Christian Ahrens has provided a reception history in the present work, which was originally published as Eine Erfindung und ihre Folgen: Blechbiasinstrumente mit Ventilen (Kassel: Barenreiter, 1986. Once a satisfactory valve system had been designed, it met ...