[Trombone-l] limits was Sound & Hearing Loss

[Jeff Albert]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:49 PM, Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG  
Franconia DPW wrote:

> That sounds good in theory but I can blow louder than small horns  
> can take,
> and some people can blow louder than any horn can take.  Increased  
> effort
> does not lead to more sound, after a certain point all horns seem  
> to go into
> diminishing returns.  So something is missing from your analysis.
>

But are we out blowing the horn, or our chops?  I would say that when  
we over blow, it is our chops that can't hold together, not the horn.

Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Pliskin [mailto:daniel_pliskin at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 05:54
> To: TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Sound & Hearing Loss
>
>
> I'm not sure whether this was the thread where someone wondered  
> what the
> theoretical maximum sound pressure might be, coming out of a  
> trombone, but I
> had a thought about that, so here goes...
>
> The only aerodynamic limits that I can think of are from cavitation  
> and mach
> 1.  A human couldn't possible achieve either condition; so the  
> loudest a
> human could play a trombone would be limited by the human and not  
> by the
> physics.
>
> DanP
>
>
>
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