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There are many... what do you call a mis-articulated note?

flub, frak, blat, ....?

Wasn't there a word that is french horn specific? Maybe when you miss the correct partial and slide into the proper partial?

Bob Mosso wrote:There are many... what do you call a mis-articulated note?

flub, frak, blat, ....?

Wasn't there a word that is french horn specific? Maybe when you miss the correct partial and slide into the proper partial?

I'll grab "clam" before the easy ones are gone.

Blat isn't a misarticulated note, but rather tone that is too loud for the air feeding it.

"Frak" is what I think of when the start of the note is fractured--not clean, usually from buzzing a different pitch than the tuba wants to resonate.

Rick "whose many clams include a lot of fraks" Denney

We used to "chip" notes way back in college. Luckily, I've outgrown that.

"crack" a note?

@#%$^* &%$#@

Splee-yah

gank, clip, bobbled

French horn players have been known to "fluff" a note.

I use 'chip' or 'crack' to describe a missed attack - which happens to me when I'm not buzzing the right pitch the horn wants to sound.

Involuntary nuance.

premature articulation

Let me get this straight. There are brass players who misarticulate notes? Surely that doesn't include trumpet players.

We call it splitting a note when the attack is not clean. A really bad stinker is called splattering it off the ceiling, walls and floor.
All you can say is, "At least I was going for it when I went down the crapper".

An "air ball" occurs when one tries a for a very soft attack and gets nothing but the sound of air passing through the horn.

We used to say "**** the bed" back in the day.

...Maybe that was a Wisconsin thing.

Brucom wrote:French horn players have been known to "fluff" a note.

Seconded. I like it because the word is what the note attack sounds like!

I'm partial to the term "boff," or sometimes, in honor of our tuba-playing brother from Back to the Future, "Biff."

Although, we could just pass it off as jazz and call it an "intentional idiomatic choice."

Approximatura

Guessamente

Trumpet players are the masters at this, except Bud Herseth, Allen Vizzutti and Arturo Sandoval.


I like "shnork" and the easily noticable "spyaaaah"

W wrote: and the easily noticable "spyaaaah"

Forgot that one: "spleeeyah".