[Trombone-l] Acoustics of brass instruments

[sabutin]

>>  I am DEFINITELY anti-technology when it comes to sound.
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>>On the evidence.
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>Oh, I know it’s much cooler to be 
>anti-technology.  And it’s a great ego boost to 
>be able to say that you did it all with your own 
>senses and your own wits.  But we’re also 
>talking about finding that perfection while 
>playing a trombone.  You know, that new-fangled 
>gadget invented a few hundred years ago, the one 
>that has NC milled mouthpieces, silicon 
>lubricated slides, tubes which are laser checked 
>for straightness, centrifugally cast 
>cross-braces, and the list goes on.
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>Perhaps that’s why those who contemplate 
>perfection, aim to think of nothing. 
>Everything else, I’m afraid, has its 
>imperfections.
>
>For those who are anti-technology and play 
>trombone, the only imperfection is that a 
>trombone is about as high technology as a wind 
>instrument gets.
>
>DanP


Not ABOUT "cooler", Dan.

Just about what works.

The first time I hear a trombonist whose playing 
I really admire or a trombone designer whose 
results I admire say anything at all about using 
"science" to improve his playing...science of the 
measuring kind, with graphs and analyses, etc...I 
will be all over it.

So far...hasn't happened yet.

S.

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