[Trombone-l] Glass Trombone

Ray Horton rayhorton at insightbb.com
Sat Jul 12 17:03:18 CDT 2008


I was amazed by the workmanship, also.


Three _very_ minor gripes for a documentation of a remarkable achievement:


1) Who picked out the bad canned background music?  I guess he just 
found something on his disk that had some fake brass and figured that 
was apropos?


2) The player demonstrating the horn sounded good, but we want to hear 
what the world's first glass trombone really sounds like, so leave off 
the plunger, man.


3) I agree, it would have been cool to see the slide made.  Maybe 
straight tubes aren't any big deal for glass blowers, but _that_ 
straight, at such close tolerances, has to be hard.


But it was astounding.  I'm guessing a gig bag would not be the best 
idea for this horn?


Raymond Horton


Fred Hudson wrote:
> Having been required to take a lab course in scientific glass blowing on the 
> way to my PhD in chemistry, I can appreciate the craftsmanship of the 
> artisan in creating a thing of beauty regardless of what it sounded like. 
> Although I thought it sounded pretty good!
>
> Fred H
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>> WANT!
>>
>> But I would have liked to have heard it without the plunger, to get an 
>> idea
>> of what it's "clear" tone would be.
>>
>> Robert
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>>> The first fully playable all-glass trombone. Who is going to form the
>>> first all-glass trombone choir? Volunteers?
>>>
>>> I'd like to have seen how they made the slide. I hear that SOM works the
>>> best.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4-QQCKN1Co
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