----- Original Message -----
From: Leonard & Peggy Brown
To: Hans Pizka
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Hornlist] is this the future?
Hans,
What I see has nothing to do with Vienna Valves, I do understand what you
mean about them being in a block. To me a "block" means a retangular cube.
Each tube would just be a channel routed inside the block. It might well
change the sound, but I do not know how much and the Bell would still be of
brass. The result would be a very light weight ugly horn, a black block
connected to a bell with valves being just levers to actuate whatever type
of valve is set in the block. Ugg, I hope this doesn't happen, but it would
be one way to mass produce horns and other brasswinds.
Kindest regards,
Leonard
----- Original Message -----
From: Hans Pizka
To: Leonard & Peggy Brown ; The Horn List
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Hornlist] is this the future?
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.
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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
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