[Trombone-l] Extra low valve settings

Fri Aug 1 13:44:13 CDT 2008

Been done - People used to put on French horn bell flares of 11in + on their basses.  Rediculous, I think...

J.c.

---- Mark Mohwinkel <mooseherd004 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 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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