Re: [Phys-l] musical instruments

[Bill Nettles <bnettles@uu.edu>]

All of this reminds me of the PDQ Bach Concerto for Tromboon.  The tromboon was an instrument which looked like a trombone but had a bassoon bocal and double reed attached where the normal mouthpiece would fit. Absolutely horrid timbre.

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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of John Clement
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 2:21 PM
To: 'Forum for Physics Educators'
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] musical instruments

But of course superb players can play on anything.  Dennis Brain played a
Mozart concerto on a green garden hose.  He used a mouthpiece, but I don't
recall whether he had an improvised bell.  There may be a picture of him
doing it!  He even trilled at the end.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

> Many a-time have I used a 10 ft length of electrical conduit to show
> how bugle calls can be massacred.
> Never tried a mouthpiece, never tried a flared bell.
> Either of these additions might make it a way more pleasant listening
> experience.
>
> So many new things to try.
>
> Hard-drawn 3/4 " copper water line works too.
>
> At 12:39 PM -0500 4/7/10, Bill Nettles wrote:
> > A fun exercise is to get a brass mouthpiece and some straight tubing
> > on the order of a meter and try to play it. Then fashion a bell (or
> > use a medium sized funnel) on the end and play again. Check the ease
> > of playing and the overtone structure of each setup and compare.
> > It's amazing what the flared bell does.

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