Pete Almquist ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>i'm trying to recall if the wind sounding instrument you hear in grofe's
>'grand canyon suite', the storm, was used in any earlier works.  it
>doesn't sound to me like any kind of regular instrument being played
>differently from normal and i'm guessing it was invented for the purpose.

You're saying it's not the standard wind machine, as used a) in the
theatre and b) in Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antarctica and Richard
Strauss's Alpensinfonie?

Deryk Barker
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