[Trombone-l] Antique horns

[Steve Gamble]

What a work of art!  

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu
[mailto:trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu] On Behalf Of Ray Horton
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 8:52 AM
To: Adrian Drover
Cc: 'trombone-l'
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Antique horns

 

That's exactly what it is, Adrian, a system with individual valves and 

no combinations.  In theory, the horn plays in tune because there are no


out-of-tune valve combinations. 

 

The theory breaks down, of course, because any brass instrument 

generally has more intonation problems between the different partials 

than it does in getting a single valve combination in tune.

 

 

Here is a much more extreme example of the same idea:

 

 

 

 

 

<http://flickr.com/photos/celesteh/350875811/>

 

 

Try one of those at your next gig.

 

 

Raymond Horton

 

 

Adrian Drover wrote:

>   

>> From: Danner, Mearl

>> 

>> My favorite

>> 

>>
http://www.horncollector.com/Trombones/Mahillon/6%20Valve%20Mahillon.htm

>> 

>> Wonder what was being smoked when this idea came up.

>>     

> 

> 

> Has anyone figured out how this system works?  The 2nd valve slide is
longer

> than that of the 1st.  Likewise the 5th is longer than the 4th.  It
would

> seem that only one valve would be pressed at a time and that the 6
valves

> represent positions 2 thru' 7 of the slide 'bone.  That seems to
result in

> an unnecessary amount of tubing, tho' it would compensate for the
sharpness

> that results from pressing valves in combination.  It appears also
that the

> tubing goes thru' the valve casing twice yet there is only one set of

> extension tubing.  That doesn't make much sense to me.  But then I've
*not*

> been smoking wacky baccy.

> 

> A.

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