dershem wrote:
Seriously, though, the limits depend on the player. I can recall
seeing Bill Watrous speak through his trombone.
cd
None of these effects are as resonant as actually _playing_ the
instrument, though, and can fool the player, and possibly the conductor,
as to how far the sound carries.
Years ago we performed, then recorded a work called "Forest Music" by
Paul Chihara. In the middle of the work the brass players,
unaccompanied, individually recite various overlapping poems about
trees through their instruments. (I remember the tubist is directed to
recite "I think that I shall never see / a tuba lovely as a tree," but
most were more serious, as if that makes any difference.) During that
section my parents in the audience said they could hear nothing. One of
our members caught the radio broadcast of the concert - nearly a minute
of dead air in the middle of the piece.
We recorded the work - I assume the recording engineer (Andy Kazdin from
Columbia Records) got some sound down.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist,
Louisville Orchestra
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