I think what I mainly wanted to know is if the change in sound gets any better the more you play the g on the b horn? Why is it that all the other mid notes below g sound much better on the b horn than the g?
Thanks Hans Pizka <[email protected]> wrote: >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/schmidhorninst%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
