---------------------------------------------------------------------- date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:46:59 EDT from: [email protected] subject: [Hornlist] New Acoustical Testing of the Horn
Dear Hornlisters, I am very excited about the news I will convey to you here and now! Bruce Lawson and I have been working on this for some time and finally, today, made a major breakthrough in the acoustic analysis of the horn! * * * * For example, I played a third space C on both the F and B sides of a 300,000 series Elkhart Conn 28D with an original NY Giardinelli C8 mouthpiece. We sampled the sound at .0314159 increments throughout the length of the instrument. What we found was that the sound was drastically different for each sample. For instance, at .0314159" in the mouthpiece just past the embouchure, the sound "picture" was a vibrant blood red! At 3.14159" in the leadpipe (yellow brass w/nickel silver cap) the sound "picture" was a sort of desert taupe where at 12.56636" (yellow brass) the sound picture was a deep, Egyptian brown! Further down the pike in the nickel silver valve section, the picture was a brilliant Romanesque yellow! At 138.22996" (where my hand rests in the yellow brass bell flare) the picture was a cloudy, clammy gray on both sides of the horn! We had no idea that this old piece of junk had such colorful sounds and I can't wait to test a new horn! Congratulations, Kendall! I'm sure we'll here more about this at KBHC this summer. Have you determined what the various colors indicate as to tone, etc.? I'd like to see how my 400,000 series 28D compares to your "old piece of junk" - I'll bring it with me this summer. Harris Wood _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
