[Trombone-l] Fw: Message from List Owner - stroboconn

[Patrick & Lisa Bates]

All depends on the horn/player combo. You're assuming the whole horn should
be in tune with itself. I've got an old large bore King symphony where the d
is sharp and the A flat above it is in perfect tune. (1st position) The old
stroboconn is reading all the notes teh horn plays at once, not just the
fundamental that you hear. That's my take on it anyway.
Patrick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG Ansbach DPW"
<timothy.a.richardson at us.army.mil>
To: "George Carr" <georgecarr at gmail.com>; <derekbondy at comcast.net>
Cc: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Fw: Message from List Owner - stroboconn


> George asks what to talk about.
>
> I vote the Stroboconn.
>
> No, for you kids, it's not a trombone model, despite the name.  (which I
may
> have misspelled anyway).  We oldtimers remember that before we had $30
> digital tuners, we had these monstrous $3000 dollar Stroboconns, with the
> set of spinning wheels.  As you played, you could stop one or more of the
> dials.  Sometimes they would rotate opposite directions.
>
> Now, this is the type of geek question I would normally send to OTJ, but
I'm
> banned over there (not really, some kind of unsolvable technical glitch)
so
> it goes here.  Hit delete if you want - like I do for political ones.
>
> When I was a kid I was told the dials represented partials.  Piano tuners
> use a similar gadget now, and clearly they measure the upper partials.
But
> that doesn't make sense.  Piano partials are forced to not line up by the
> governing equations so they are expected to rotate in different
directions,
> that's what inharmonicity means.  Trombone partials, or rather overtones,
> are similarly forced to line up mathematically when playing (though not
> otherwise).  It should not be possible to have dials rotate in opposite
> directions.  Yet they did.
>
> Any theories?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Carr [mailto:georgecarr at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:03 PM
> To: derekbondy at comcast.net
> Cc: trombone-l at server5.samford.edu
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Fw: Message from List Owner
>
> What would you like to talk about?
>
> On 10/4/06, derekbondy at comcast.net <derekbondy at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I SECOND THAT!!! Sometimes I feel as though this is just a waste of
> e-mails in my inbox and I want to dump this list.  So Lets Keep things
> related to the trombone please!
>
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