Recent content by don sawday

and think of this . there are many more guys that customize trumpets around the world than tubas. probably cause its too hard

fred no doubt these things have a huge effect on everything. some old time repair guys say that you can feel the node on the horn when it is played. so i had a tuba played righe infront of me playing a middle concert F and i just started feeling around the horn. I found a spot on one of the...

funny

thanks Chris .will keep up the fight

it is funny, all we really do is keep trying to re-invent the wheel over and over, but a little rounder this time.

the answer to your riddle is ,nothing, a violinist would never associate with a violist they are beneath them

The problem with all the math on paper is that that works "only on paper" The real world deals with so many more variables,like metal thickness,metal composition,metal hardness,how much metal the guy polishes in the buffing room, how much lacquer,silver or gold plating we put on. I mean its...

its combining the art of music with the physics of science its two world that are so different from each other. what this industry does mostly is trial and error with no real answers except "i guess it sounds better"

yes i know i get dizzy just looking at the first page of any of those books . i asked a physics professor at UC Irvine, who also was a violinist and she told me my questions were way over head

i have also read articles from the 1940's written by the instrument maker Conn that said they shrunk a horn at a certain areas on a node point which lowered the fifth partial. their problem was that at that certain spot it also changed the forth partial. so their claim was that all musical...

my theory is that when a tube gets smaller the wave length becomes longer some how making the pitch go down and vice versa, a bigger tube means a shorter wave length resulting in raised pitch

The physics of sound have been explained by many people but the relationship of practical applications are a blur. I am a brass instrument player and designer of bras instruments the relationship between bore size, taper and length are very crucial and way over most peoples head. so here is...