I've heard of double and triple-tongueing. I always thought it was impressive to just have enough air to be able to play a line on a brass instrument. I think Haydn has some triple-tonguing in his trumpet concerto--or at least that's the best way to play one particular line. As I recall, Maurice Andre is (or was) a great trumpet soloist-I think I've heard the Haydn done by him--and I think heard about triple-tonguing in reference to him.   Is it true that the French horn is even harder than the trumpet?

I always thought Garrison Keillor was being unfair in his "Young Lutherans' Guide to the Orchestra" when he said something to the effect of "Most people who perished at concerts were victims of long trumpet solos--and they were glad to go." Of course he wasn't very kind to violists (nor is anybody else, of course). He said something like "Violists have a dark moody streak--maybe it's from the realization,, after decades of playing in the orchestra, that nobody can actually hear them in the audience. You think you're hearing the violas, but it's really the second violins. Violists go out to abandoned parking lots and cook chicken on wire hangers and think of absconding to Mexico with a girl named Rosa."