That wasn't my question Hans. Hans Pizka <[email protected]> wrote:
>Why playing it on the bb horn if you have it perfect on the f side ???? Use >your double as a 4-valve- or 5-valve-horn (stop valve included) ?? > >Very simple solution. > >Some Bb horns have the middle g as real "wolf-note", even to be heard clearly >from (stubborn) >widely known soloists, females included, CDs included. > >######################################################### >Am 05.05.2011 um 20:29 schrieb SH: > >> 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/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
