User talk:Yeodoug

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Doug, I wikified your contribution along the lines described via email. A couple of extra points.

  • It's customary to begin an article with a short definitional paragraph before the first major heading.
  • Restored my note about the Roman buccina because it is customary to help users who land on an article by mistake disambiguate themselves to the place they were seeking (so this note exists not to support the bucin as much as those seeking out the Roman buccina who landed here by mistake).
  • Copied the instrument infobox from the trombone article. You could flesh this out with its name(s) in other languages (which is likely to be bucin, buccin, or buccina in every language that has a word for it) as well as noting the musical range. See Playing range which discusses pedal tones and screech notes. The trumpet entry supplied an image of a musical staff which is rather ambitious.
  • Restored the article to the brass instruments category. It's looking very good now thanks to your contribution.
  • Changed semantic endashes and emdashes to their corresponding special characters. Note the width of the dash in the date range is now slightly longer than a hyphen.

I left some text from the trombone infobox in the buccin infobox as HTML comments as an indication of what might be expected in those fields.

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  • After reviewing my original notes in Talk:Buccin it strikes me that we should add a section modern performance. Is it true that the baritone horn is the most suitable modern replacement? What characteristics does the instrument possess which can't be replicated with a modern substitute? Notes on your performance experience would be invaluable.

MaxEnt 00:41, 25 May 2006 (UTC)


  • I'm not aware of any piece of music that specifically calls for the buccin apart from the Berlioz "Messe solennelle" which is referenced in the article. When the buccin was popular, it likely usually played trombone parts and was played by trombone players. While the buccin has a softer and rougher sound than the trombone (depending on how loudly it is played), it still is a form of trombone so a trombone would be the best modern substitue. But since it has no real dedicated repertoire, I'm not sure a reference to "modern performance" is really necessary.

Yeodoug 02 June 2006