I forgot about him, was thinking of Spencer Clark.

Pretty restrained performance for Rollini, if that was him.

I've once met a Sgt named Roosendaal and that name sounds about the same in both languages. I expect this would be thanks to the Roosevelts, who ironically came to the US from The Netherlands in the person of "Claes Maartenszen van Rosevelt." I think to this day there are a few who will pronounce ...

By analogy to other adaptations of this German vowel - consider us lucky, it could be pronounced like the U in Munich (aka München, and it isn't the only example of that transformation.) I'm not a fluent speaker, but I did have a few years of German in school. The proposed English pronunciation of ...

This soup might make more sense if you look at it from the perspective of the more standardized early member of this general family of instruments, the saxhorn . Modern saxhorns still manufactured and in use: B♭ soprano saxhorn: flugelhorn E♭ alto/tenor saxhorn: alto/tenor horn B♭ baritone saxhorn: b ...

I'd go as far as saxophone -


(Not me in person - haven't worked up the high range on the bass sax, for one thing. The gyrations, though - I bet I could do that.)

Well ... at the risk of being one of those guys who offers advice on the internet ... You have a mouthpiece, right? Pull it off the tuba, and hold it up to your face and play some notes there. I'm not saying this is really how you learn to play the tuba (really I believe perceptions vary about that ...

foxZe wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:21 am could you bring it up or down a few steps to play it on a Bb or C tuba?

Yes.

i can wiggle my fingers pretty fast, if it doesn't matter which finger and when. Lately I've been pulling out the bombardino once in a while, and for me on that instrument (which some would call a euphonium, others a bass saxhorn), the range seems to go up by the appropriate octave as one would ...

Off course it is build quality but that doesnt mean that better quality cant be delivered, it is just too expensive in our today economic. And seeing the construction of the wooden houses wildly build in the US you can't expect them to last more than 100 years.Our houses are build with brick and ...

My house is 125 years old and is doing better than lots of newer builds on build quality. Engineering might be better in design, but construction isn’t! Ha, when we moved out, our house was about 125. I think it may have had a few little upgrades since it was built, though - bathrooms were a nice t ...

I've been assuming he really meant that the buzzes are not the same pitch. Other than that, not much help here - I could surf the web, or just guess, but in this exhaustive discussion we haven't gotten around to the really key question of how the lips really do start and maintain an air column ...

My Kanstul tuba is a different model, but I think the valve tubing shape here is the same, and has the same problem where water collects in those elbows next to the valves. I'm usually at liberty to blow through the tuba, so I tilt to the right a bit so the elbow drains into to the valves, and start ...

It isn't that because of some exceptions which will probably exist that you can dismiss the positive and negative pressure in the mouthpiece forcing the lips in and out and the fact that the efficiency of the standing wave being reflected is the highest when it hits a solid object and not one with ...

My upper lip and lower lip are different. How to they coordinate to vibrate together and not produce their own frequencies? Anyone cares to is welcome and invited to give their opinion. The standing wave makes the air pressure in the mouthpiece positive and negative. Both lips follow the change in ...

- As you (finally) admit that you "can't guarantee that lips would close in that case" (as I contend that closing them would stop the vibration), why would they necessarily close at higher frequencies - such as a tuba player "squealing" out pitches way up at the top of the treble clef staff and ...

Those who believe that the two blades of a bassoon reed (as stiff as they are, and with a c. 1/8th-inch space at their arc, and only about 1/2-inch wide) actually bang against each other...well, I can only smh. Meanwhile we're smh about 1) that "bang against each other" story that thoroughly ...

But the measurements and videos clearly show that the lips close completely so your take seems rather irrelevant, don't you think. If you return to the same post you quoted, you'll see a discussion from the same source, about different playing regimes where the lips may or may not touch. Soft high ...

You should read up a little like here https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/brassacoustics.html#pipe Thanks - a lot of interesting material there. Apologies for clipping this part, but I think it stands on its own without too much dependence on the rest of the material: This simple picture already ...

Strings do bang against the wood on both ends, you can easily feel the vibration in the wood. Well, not really, there isn't anything "banging" except in someone's head. I can only guess what really happens in the air column in wind instruments, but I doubt "closed pipe" is really what we're looking ...