Yeah, kind of like that $400 driver. Helps Tiger but I still slice. Regards, Joe
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hans Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:30 PM To: 'The Horn List' Subject: RE: [Hornlist] New Horn Design/Concept Sorry, this has been done before. Ask Engelbert Schmid. His valves are designed that way. Does it help the weak player ? No ! Definitely no ! Does it help the top players ? Perhaps, do get still an improvement. But those struggling with the single notes may never feel the improvement, but they will buy it as some kind of "placebo". Nevertheless, it is great that some players & designers do research to improve our instrument. ============================================================ ============================================= -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Wester Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:25 PM To: The Horn List Subject: [Hornlist] New Horn Design/Concept I have been playing around with a horn design based on a valve that I thought up. The primary goal of this design is to have an constant bore size through out the entire horn. Never having a crimp or pinch anywhere throughout the horn. Current horn designs rotary valve clusters are a massive row of crimped passages. So I set out to design a valve that would maintain a bore size when straight through and when diverting its air through the valve slide. I used 3D modeling software to mock up the horn. I haven't modeled it exactly correct, due to my limitations with the software. So the tubing lengths for the F and Bb side are guesstimates. And I haven't included a thumb lever. But the main gist of the design is there. I would be interested to hear your comments. I realize that this design could result in a heavy horn. I am planning on experimenting with alloys to decrease the weight of the valves. I also haven't modeled the valves exactly as they would be ( again due to lack of modeling ability ), I have a few different ideas of how to construct the valves. Pics of the design are in the Photo section of the Yahoo group. http://f9g.yahoofs.com/groups/g_153230/fce0/__sr_/f044.jpg?g rA.hzGBhuEjY13g http://f9g.yahoofs.com/groups/g_153230/fce0/__sr_/6ee7.jpg?g rA.hzGBSTSJkH5q http://f9g.yahoofs.com/groups/g_153230/fce0/__sr_/6751.jpg?g rA.hzGBa_rZiQCa Thanks, James ____________________________________________________________ ________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/joescarpelli%40earthlink.net _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
