[Trombone-l] Acoustics of brass instruments

[sabutin]

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But I also sense a thread of anti-electronics, almost anti-technology, here.  Let all who are anti-technology, go back to using machine oil for slide oil.

DanP

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 I am DEFINITELY anti-technology when it comes to sound.

On the evidence.

On the evidence of my own ears and experience.

The "science" of acoustics a fine game, and it can bring you years of enjoyment.

But if you want to analyze or reproduce a sound...use your ears.

use your body, your soul AND your mind.

You are still a better computer than anything mankind has developed.

Technology for reducing friction?

Sure.
Buut for making a sound that, as Gabe quoted the Sufi musical master Vilayat Inayat Khan "... it seems to you that you are just the instrument through which the divine pied piper blows the whisper of the incantation of his magic spell?"

Nope.

NO amount of Slide-O-Mix is in THAT mix.

And no amount of computation, either.

Later...

S.