[Trombone-l] Acoustics of brass instruments

[Stan Brager]

I don't see why both approaches to producing the tone you're looking for
can't work. One produces a better trombone through the technical side while
the other creates a trombonist who is more aware of his sound.

Certainly, today's instruments are manufactured utilizing better engineering
than yesterday and provide greater consistency from horn to horn. That
process allows the musician to explore the individual aspect of making
music.

Hail, 'em both!

Stan
Stan Brager
Trombonist-in-Training and learning more every day.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sabutin" <sabutin at mindspring.com>
To: <TROMBONE-L at server5.SAMFORD.EDU>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Acoustics of brass instruments


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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.
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> DanP
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>  I am DEFINITELY anti-technology when it comes to sound.
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> On the evidence.
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> On the evidence of my own ears and experience.
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> The "science" of acoustics a fine game, and it can bring you years of
enjoyment.
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> But if you want to analyze or reproduce a sound...use your ears.
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> use your body, your soul AND your mind.
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> You are still a better computer than anything mankind has developed.
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> Technology for reducing friction?
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> 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?"
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> Nope.
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> NO amount of Slide-O-Mix is in THAT mix.
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> And no amount of computation, either.
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> Later...
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> S.
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