There are some misunderstandings on your side: I did not say it were a matter of programming the router, but preparing (equipping) the machines with different (cutter or drill) tools. Different material requires different modes of drilling.
And the material ? Does carbon fibre damp the sound waves, does it change the color of the sound ? Surely, it does. And the block thing ? We have that already with the Viennese Pumpen Valve. Forgotten ? This has nothing to do with the conservativism of musicians. How boring would it be, if all would sound alike ? I thought you all do not like uniforms much, do you ? Uniformity in the arts would result in the death of the arts. But politicians would like it. Uniform people are easier to govern as all be calculable. In Japan, they eventually developed melons, which come as cubes (no joke), much easier to pack as no space is wasted. ######################################################## Am 17.07.2011 um 19:18 schrieb Leonard & Peggy Brown: > I don't think cheaper instruments for the masses will involve much brass > except the bell and perhaps the leadpipe. I see blocks of carbon fiber with > all the pipes routed inside and the valves drilled into the same block. It > would be a small block because 2 pipes would share a common wall. So you > would have the bell attached to a black block with a leadpipe coming out the > other end. As Hans said, the trick would be to program the router, but > thats about it. After that is done one could produce a thousand bodies with > almost no skilled humans around. I don't really think this will take place > because musicians are too conservative to change that much. > > LLB > >> For sure the top instruments will be made on the same processes and today, >> but would be fine to reduce even more the costs of instruments for young >> students. By doing this more people can start to learn the horn specially >> on poor countries >> >> - Ricardo Matosinhos > > _______________________________________________ > 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
