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/archive%40jab.org
