[Trombone-l] Glass Trombone

[Chris Tune]

It has been my impression that many of the players in Scandinavian nations
are very oriented toward early jazz and Dixieland sounds.  Thus, I can see
why the very good player they got to audition the horn is conversant in
plunger soloing.  I don't know him, but he's clearly a good player. 

I was amazed that the glass did not break given the stresses on a horn when
you are holding the plunger and shouldering the horn. . .

I agree it would be nice to hear the actual scientific "acoustics" of an all
glass instrument.  I'd like to hear the sounds recorded in some "standard"
environment such as a recording studio or concert hall.  Then recorded with
good condenser mics and at minimum 44khz sampling rate 16 bit samples. 

Particularly so, since my theories say that it doesn't matter what material
a horn is made out of, but rather the shape of the aircolumn is the most
important factor in making up the tonal characteristics of a brass (or
glass) instrument.  Brass is mainly better because it is more rugged than
glass by a factor of . . .well zillions. 

Chris 


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On Behalf Of Ray Horton
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 3:03 PM
To: Fred Hudson
Cc: trombone-l at samford.edu
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Glass Trombone

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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