{"id":247,"date":"2025-07-13T02:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/?p=247"},"modified":"2025-07-13T05:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:38:01","slug":"firnfern-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"FirnFern in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p>Jonathon, Stephen, and Peter practiced today in our usual spot at the Edoff Bandstand at Lake Merritt in Oakland. Mostly we played in Gb, meaning in a typical key that Swiss alphorns are tuned in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we also practiced a few tunes that are written for a combination of alphorns tuned in F and F#.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video shows Jonathon and Stephen practicing an excerpt from <em>FirnFern 1<\/em> composed by Balthasar Streiff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-247-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/alphornsf.org\/videos\/firnfern_20250712.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/alphornsf.org\/videos\/firnfern_20250712.mp4\">https:\/\/alphornsf.org\/videos\/firnfern_20250712.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathon, Stephen, and Peter practiced today in our usual spot at the Edoff Bandstand at Lake Merritt in Oakland. Mostly we played in Gb, meaning in a typical key that Swiss alphorns are tuned in. However, we also practiced a few tunes that are written for a combination of alphorns tuned in F and F#. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}