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Re: [Phys-L] [Phys-l] musical instruments

This may have been at a joint NC/SC AAPT section meeting at cal poly N. (SLO city) --NOT checked that’s the meeting wherein Ron Brown described the discussion on the dropping of a magnet down a super conducting tube at CalTech. The experiment done a few years ago — Advanced lab. AA meeting.

http://home.sandiego.edu/~severn/alpha_bfy_hts_v3.pdf



Here’s one excerpt from BH’s traveling show. (He plays(ed) horn w/ the SJ symphony)

Dr. HOLMES: Yes, you can replace the bell with a bell of a different flare. But if you want to do this at home, get yourself a length of garden hose, take a trumpet mouthpiece, wrap it with electrical tape, put it one end and put a funnel in the other end. You'll get a pretty good working brass instrument and not have to spend a lot of money.

(Soundbite of laughter)

http://www.wbur.org/npr/5355450/examining-the-physics-of-music

http://www.thorpemusic.com/holmes02.html

bc has heard his show twice and doesn’t think nine years is long, especially considering 78+ years life.

10:00 Invited Speaker:
The Physics of Brass Musical Instruments

Brian Holmes, San Jose State University, HornCabbage@aol.com
Brian Holmes received his doctorate from Boston University in 1980. He has been a member of the Physics Department of San Jose State University for fourteen years. His interests include the physics of music and sports, and physics education. A sought-after speaker, his topics include musical acoustics and sports physics. His talks are full of humor and energy, which complement the physical and musical insights he offers. He enlivens his presentation with numerous demonstrations, including building a trumpet from scratch. He often plays an antique keyed bugle, a valve-less predecessor of the modern French horn—and a length of garden hose.
Dr. Holmes performs regularly with the San Jose Symphony and Opera San Jose. He has published many articles in physics publications including Whoopee Cushion Physics, My Teacher is a Blowhard, and Putting: How a golf ball and hole interact. He has also published a number of original musical compositions and arrangements, including 15 piano-vocal arrangements for the children's book, I Have a Song to Sing (McElderry Books, Simon & Schuster).

http://ncnaapt.org/archives/spring2006/spring2006prog.html




On 2015, Nov 25, , at 06:28, Bennett <bennett@oakland.edu> wrote:

Many years ago one of the members played hosepipe at an AAPT meeting.

I don't remember who or when.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>
wrote:


Showing off his humorous style, Brain performed a Leopold Mozart horn
concerto on rubber hose pipes at a Gerard Hoffnung music festival in 1956,
trimming the hose to length with garden shears to achieve the correct
tuning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Brain


bc has listened to that festival.


On 2010, Apr 07, , at 12:21, John Clement <clement@hal-pc.org> wrote:

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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