Valerie, you used the term "almost". I remember a talk with Rolls-Royce airplane engine engineers in Kobe/Japan 20 years ago. They talked about the problems their Japanese colleagues had when tuning these most delicate engines & could not master the problems so to call in the British engineers. They (British), suspect about the tools used by the Japanese, asked them: "Did you use the original tools ?" - "Yes, yes, almost, almost !" - "where these tools original Rolls-Royce tools ?", they insisted. "Almost, almost !". - It turned out, the Japanese engineers had used tools, which were metric, while the originals were after the British measurement in fractions of inches.
So it be with your statement "the middle G sound almost identical". What does "almost identical" mean ? Identical means 100% the same. But for your ears perhaps, but not for the objective listener. It cannot be. If you mean, you can lip it into place, the sound cannot be the same, nor can it be unlipped, as there are different harmonics involved. You wrote, that it "feels a little different on both sides of your Merker". Yes, off course, as these are different harmonics. If you try a certain note on any horn, you MUST NOT lip it up or down nor correct it by the use of the right hand. You can start correcting, after you have explored the particular horn in full first. ########################################################## Am 05.05.2011 um 19:32 schrieb valerie wells: > Do you think some of the problems with middle G on the Bb horn may depend on > the horn? I have trouble centering the tone & pitch of middle G on my > single Bb horn, but not on the Bb side of my Holton Merker. The tone of > middle G sounds almost identical, yet "feels" a little different, on both > sides of my Merker. > -- > Valerie Wells > The Balanced Embouchure Method > http://bebabe.wordpress.com/ > http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
