[Trombone-l] Leadpipe

[Jeff Albert]

On May 30, 2006, at 2:47 AM, Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG  
Franconia DPW wrote:

>
> Certainly stuffiness exists.  I feel it in some horns and not in  
> others,
> some valves and not others.  I don't think stuffiness is resistance  
> to air
> flow at all.  I think it is how our brain interprets a change in  
> the way the
> sound wave acts.

Tim, you are half right.  Resistance to airflow IS part of the  
equation, but behavior of the sound wave is also part of the  
equation.  This becomes especially apparent in altered positions like  
7th partial G and Gb, or in the valve range.  If the slide isn't in  
the right spot, the instrument suddenly gets very stuffy, because the  
ear is trying to make the lips vibrate at a frequency that the horn  
is not at the correct length to amplify.

I think the important point is the one Gabe made, which is that it is  
ALL a system, and every aspect influences the other aspects.


Jeff


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