[Trombone-l] Glass Trombone

[Tom Izzo]

Ray & all,


--- On Sat, 7/12/08, Ray Horton <rayhorton at insightbb.com> wrote:

> From: Ray Horton <rayhorton at insightbb.com>
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Glass Trombone
> To: "Fred Hudson" <fmhudson at cablelynx.com>
> Cc: trombone-l at samford.edu
> Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 5:03 PM
> 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?

hhahahahahahah True. I'd like to add a 4th.
4) You'd a thunk if a glass complete Trombone is possible, something as simple as a plunger could be glass. Yes?

Tom

> 
> 
> 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
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Robert Slaven"
> <robert at robertslaven.ca>
> > To: <billdin at comcast.net>
> > Cc: <trombone-l at samford.edu>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 1:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Glass Trombone
> >
> >
> >   
> >> 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
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: <billdin at comcast.net>
> >> To: <trombone-l at samford.edu>
> >> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:53 AM
> >> Subject: [Trombone-l] Glass Trombone
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >>> Bill Dinwiddie
> >>> billdin at comcast.net
> >>>
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