Some food for thought on this topic.
I understand that Schilke performed some interesting experiments with Herseth back in the day. He made a number of bells out of different metals from very soft (lead) to very hard (ceramic) and then had Herseth play some notes on each of the bells and then had a machine that was able to phonate a sound on the trumpet play the same bells. It turned out that Herseth sounded different on each one, but the machine didn't except for the one that was the softest and the one that was the hardest. What they took out of this research was that the feedback to the player of the different metals changed the way the player played, resulting in a different sound. Hence, adding mass to one's horn probably doesn't change the sound as much as it changes the way we address the instrument with our bodies (most importantly air), which then changes the sound. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
