[Trombone-l] "The Brace"

[Roger Hecht]

For a while in my bass trombone days, I played a Conn Fuchs model, 
with the tuning mechanism in the hand slide. The effect of weight was 
similar to that described below. I sensed the effect of the weight 
and extra bracing in the slide was similar to the Brace, but I never 
did any hard comparisons.



>I found that the knockoff of The Brace that I built basically did the same
>thing as adding a brass nut, weighing about 2.2 ounces, to the mouthpiece.
>And it did it by adding very little weight to the overall instrument.  But
>it did add that weight to something that one is constantly trying to move
>around and it was noticeable.  So the issue became, did I want to add weight
>to the slide, effecting my right hand, or did I want to add more weight to
>the mouthpiece, effecting my left hand.  I chose burdening my left hand.
>And my brace thingie sits in a drawer, someplace.
>
>DanP
>
>
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Roger Hecht