Never boring :)
I work with engineers all day so I get to make jokes now and then...
Halana/Tani
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel P. Sniderman [mailto:fuzzbone@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:41 PM
> To: eqbards@egroups.com
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] OT Instruments (was complete heal)
>
>
> No - I'm not an engineer at all - I do some part time Programming
> Consulting - but I'm a full time professional Trombonist. I
> take Brass
> Instruments very seriously <g> I pardon if I'm boring anyone
> with this
> talk...
>
> Slyde
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cranfill, Wendy [mailto:Wendy_Cranfill@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:51 PM
> To: 'eqbards@egroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] OT Instruments (was complete heal)
>
> Gah!!!! What are you all? A bunch of engineers? Analyzing
> things to death!
> *ducks*
>
> Halana/Tani
> Solusek Ro
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kimes, Dean W. [mailto:dean_kimes@...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:03 PM
> > To: 'eqbards@egroups.com'
> > Subject: RE: [eqbards] OT Instruments (was complete heal)
> >
> >
> > Stops=partials right. Agreed only brass instruments have
> > them, that's what
> > I said ;-)
> > Simple woodwinds have no reeds. The hunting horn I have
> > really isn't an
> > instrument at all to be honest, but it is the vibrations
> > created inside the
> > horn that make the sound you hear. The different shapes of
> > individual horns
> > affects the sounds heard.
> >
> > Kit
> >
> > -----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)
> >
> >
> > That is not correct. I'm not sure what you mean by "stops" -
> > if you mean
> > "Partials" you have it backwards - only brass instruments
> > have partials.
> > Regardless, the determination of instrument types is by how
> > the sound itself
> > is generated. For brass instruments - the players lips
> > vibration creates
> > the sound. This is how you play a Shofar (when I was a child
> > - a big day
> > for me was when for the first time I beat the Rabbi's son in a
> > Shofar-blowing competition - after I started taking
> trombone lessons).
> >
> > On a woodwind instrument - the sound is created by some part of the
> > instrument vibrating. On modern instruments - with the
> > exception of the
> > flute this would be a reed (for a flute it's the vibrations
> > caused by the
> > wind crossing its mouthpiece
> >
> > A saxophone - for example - while made of brass is a woodwind
> > instrument.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Slyde
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kimes, Dean W. [mailto:dean_kimes@...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:32 PM
> > To: 'eqbards@egroups.com'
> > Subject: RE: [eqbards] Instruments (was complete heal)
> >
> > Actually it is more correct for it to be a wind instrument. Brass
> > instruments all have stops, wind instruments do not
> > necessarily have them.
> >
> > Kit
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel P. Sniderman [mailto:fuzzbone@...]
> > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 3:50 PM
> > To: eqbards@egroups.com
> > Subject: RE: [eqbards] Instruments (was complete heal)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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