Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:56 pm
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Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:08 pm
Already owned....or at least the people living above me would believe so
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:08 pm
Why on earth would you need one? 
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:34 pm
I'm wondering if that thing would change the pitch of the bugle. Rick??
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:32 pm
why does everyone have to wonder things with such seriosity.....made up word...I think so...TubaTinker wrote:I'm wondering if that thing would change the pitch of the bugle. Rick??
I'm curious as well..I think...
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:35 pm
... and I thought that it musta been one of them Japanese war tubas!schlepporello wrote:I thought that was called a sousaphone.
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:57 pm
Curious minds need to know these things!pierso20 wrote:why does everyone have to wonder things with such seriosity.....made up word...I think so...TubaTinker wrote:I'm wondering if that thing would change the pitch of the bugle. Rick??
I'm curious as well..I think...
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:02 pm
This would be my inclination as well.......what what do I know....ben wrote:I'm no Rick Denny, and my physics are rusty, bit i'd guess it would not change the pitch of the horn, because they are probably not actually attached together. There would still be a set of resonace coupling just like there is with megaphones, but I'd guess it would have minimal influence on the playing characteristics. I guess I could get a large sheet of paper, make a huge cone and actually test my hypothesis out. Sounds like fun!
Rick? Help? You're so much more eloquent than I'll ever be at this stuff.
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:13 am
Because they're all actually going to try it!pierso20 wrote:why does everyone have to wonder things with such seriosity......TubaTinker wrote:I'm wondering if that thing would change the pitch of the bugle. Rick??
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:42 am
I know I am.Nick Pierce wrote:
Because they're all actually going to try it!
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:00 pm
Not only am I not Rick Denny, I've never even played him on TV.TubaTinker wrote:I'm wondering if that thing would change the pitch of the bugle. Rick??
Two things come to mind, though.
1.) It's a bugle, playing by itself, so it doesn't have to tune to anything.
2.) If the bell and cone were sufficiently close to make it act like an extended bell, then it is my understanding that the flare (if wide enough, fast enough) has minimal impact on the over-all length. Take a sousaphone played without the bell, as an example. Not loud enough, but not significantly higher, either.
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:03 pm
Not significantly unless you seal the space between the bell and the megaphone.TubaTinker wrote:I'm wondering if that thing would change the pitch of the bugle. Rick??
And the shape is probably so non-resonant as to have little effect on the tuning of the bugle.
Rick "thinking it probably affected the tone but that nobody cared" Denney
Re: Imagine one of these for tuba
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:34 am
Well! Tell us more. Inquiring minds want to know.bloke wrote:All of this talk hearkens me back to a story that I once heard my Dad tell to his golfing buddies about a constipated mule, a bugle, and a drawbridge...