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Observations of Silver against Lacquer finish
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Re: Observations of Silver against Lacquer finish
Despite the appearance of food posts....
Walter Lawson, who used to make very high quality handmade French horns, did a study on a horn's frequency response. He recorded the horn without lacquer and then lacquered it and did the same tests. Of course a human playing an instrument is a highly variable variable, but his result was that the lacquer dampened the high frequencies by a few percent. He said it didn't matter because simply opening the hand in the bell a small amount (which a competent player would do unconsciously to get the tone s/he wanted) made up the difference. Of course this is a lacquer-vs-non-lacquer study but it might apply.
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MA
Walter Lawson, who used to make very high quality handmade French horns, did a study on a horn's frequency response. He recorded the horn without lacquer and then lacquered it and did the same tests. Of course a human playing an instrument is a highly variable variable, but his result was that the lacquer dampened the high frequencies by a few percent. He said it didn't matter because simply opening the hand in the bell a small amount (which a competent player would do unconsciously to get the tone s/he wanted) made up the difference. Of course this is a lacquer-vs-non-lacquer study but it might apply.
[picture of food here]
MA