from: Paul Mansur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
subject: Re: [Hornlist] centering pitch
ending up with slides pulled out way too far.
Ah! This is the problem a young lad I know has.
From reading the Schilke article somebody introduced last week (He
wrote "At the last point of rarefaction, which occurs in front of the
bell of the instrument, a standing node is formed which gives a
rescinding node going back through the instrument and culminates itself
in the larynx of the performer. This is the reason why performers with
different sized oral cavities will play the over-all pitch of the same
instrument differently.") I'd suspected it might be due to his being
much smaller than me.
But I also wondered if his embouchure was restricting the sound so that
his lips were more relevant than his larynx. This would cut off 10cm or
so, just about the amount he needs to pull out his slides to get in
tune.
I don't remember having this problem when I was his size, but maybe I
was just oblivious.
I'll try out all your ideas on him and see how it goes. (He doesn't
have a horn, or even brass, teacher at school except his seniors, and
I'm just his part leader in the community band, with little time for
one-on-one.)
Many thanks to all.
Simon
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