>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel P. Sniderman [mailto:fuzzbone@...]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:33 PM
>To: eqbards@egroups.com
>Subject: RE: [eqbards] OT Instruments (was complete heal)
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>As I have been taught (by some very good teachers) - for a brass player - we
>are creating the sound itself. The instrument only amplifies the sound.
>This is a good thing - because we're not constantly in search of a good
>reed. Most sax/clarinet players will tell you if they get one or two in a
>box of 20 - they are happy.
You should have said most "good" sax/clarinet players. I played clarinet a
long time ago and was just happy if the reed wasn't split or moldy. And to
think I used to have to suck on those things, ewww.
At 04:12 PM 1/23/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Read your comment wrong about stops - but you are still wrong on hunting
>horns. The Sound is made by "Buzzing" the brass method and they do have
>partials - they are harder to make but there (I've tried them out).
>
>The determining factor - for flutes and early winds - the vibration is the
>resistance of the air crossing a blow hole. The hunting horns are NOT
>played that way. The shape of the horn is NOT an issue for determining how
>the sound is created, only altered.
>
>Slyde
All brass instruments are technically wind instruments, since it requires
wind to make the sound, as any string player. :-)
I would've assumed all "wind" instruments should be woodwinds (flutes,
fifes) and "brass" would have been the various horns found in the world as
I agree with Slyde about the way the sound is created with the instrument.
Seems Verant is taking the word "brass" literally as meaning any instrument
actually made of brass. Anything else is a "wind". I would have thought
that all "brass" should have been anything using that particular mouthpiece
while "wind" would have been any type of "woodwind" instrument (flutes,
clarinets, saxophones, etc).
What I really want to know is when we get our battle sousaphone! Woot! Tuba
Run!
---Windleaf