[Trombone-l] Extra low valve settings

[Mark Mohwinkel]

I'm assuming your response was to find an 11.5 inch flare and put that on?

Mark Mohwinkel
Bend in the River Big Band and 3M Engineer


--- On Fri, 8/1/08, Dennis Clason <dclason at nmsu.edu> wrote:

> From: Dennis Clason <dclason at nmsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Extra low valve settings
> To: "Jeff Albert" <jeffalbert.smb at gmail.com>
> Cc: TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu
> Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 1:12 PM
> My bass has a screw-on bell, and I have both 9.5 and 10.5
> inch flares 
> for it.  Woodwind players hate the bigger bell, because
> it's more 
> directional than the other.  I had one bassoonist ask me to
> go back to 
> the smaller bell, because the big one gave him headaches.
> 
> Jeff Albert wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Ray Horton
> <rayhorton at insightbb.com> wrote:
> >   He had a 10 1/2 bell Bach at
> >   
> >> that time, but did use the F and C valves.  He
> said you never use them
> >> together.  I think the idea is to have the most
> open low C and B possible.
> >>     
> >
> > Could have been 10.5 inch bell.  Whatever it was it
> was BIG.
> >
> >   
> >> There are several players around with separate F
> and D valves for the same
> >> purpose, (why not just stick with dependent
> valves?)
> >>     
> >
> > I guess the idea is that blowing through one valve is
> better than
> > blowing through two.  Of course, I play dependent
> valves, so what
> > would I know.  ;)
> >
> > Jeff
> >   
> 
> -- 
> --
> Dennis L. Clason, Ph.D.
> University Statistics Center
> New Mexico State University
> Las Cruces, New Mexico
> 
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