[Trombone-l] Theoretical physics

[Stan Brager]

My guess is that the valve instruments apply when discrete increments are
required. Naturally, these are subsets of the trombone symmetries.

Stan
Stan Brager
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Bailey" <simon.bailey at uibk.ac.at>
To: "Stan Brager" <sbrager at socal.rr.com>
Cc: <Trombone-l at maillists.samford.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Theoretical physics


> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:58:59AM -0700, Stan Brager wrote:
> > This, of course, does not apply to valve trombones. Trombones with
triggers
> > represent a special class of scaling symmetries.
>
> rainer blatt, the theoretical physicist who was awarded the erwin
schroedinger
> prize [by the austrian academy of science] is a very skilled euphonium
player.
> and one of his postdocs is a good bigband lead trumpeter. so valves must
be in
> physics somewhere. even if trombones are more dignified and elegant :P
>
> http://www.iqoqi.at/people/staffdb/331006.xml -- prof. rainer blatt.
>
> regards,
> sb
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