Re: Value of larger bore 4th valve?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 11:22 pm
It really isn't new to vary bore size. The pre-1900 Cerveny BBb I once had had graduated bores through the four valves.
Ken Herrick wrote:It really isn't new to vary bore size. The pre-1900 Cerveny BBb I once had had graduated bores through the four valves.
Well, it may be testable, but who wants to unsolder a perfectly good 4th valve with its circuit and encounter unnecessarily the risks of reassembly involved, if the person involved is not in the R&D department of a brass musical instrument factory?bloke wrote:not testable...
Therefore any theories or opinions will remain pure conjecture.
Re-read my post. I didn't say it was testable, I said it may be testable. The mechanical logistics, for example, a quick-release valve set, Jupiter style, might work, or something else, or it might not. From a conventional unsolder-resolder perspective, I agree with your view that it is not. That is why I suggested this may be an R&D project for a manufacturer.bloke wrote:It's not testable - not even subjectively (via gathering of opinions, which are not scientific), because the larger-bore and smaller-bore circuits could not be instantaneous interchanged on the same instrument...and (even if two same-model instruments were built with two different 4th-circuit bore sizes) - as many of us have experienced - two same-model instruments (with all of the same bore sizes and all of the same everything) can play differently - certainly differently in the "low range".iiipopes wrote:Well, it may be testable, but who wants to unsolder a perfectly good 4th valve with its circuit and encounter unnecessarily the risks of reassembly involved, if the person involved is not in the R&D department of a brass musical instrument factory?bloke wrote:not testable...
Therefore any theories or opinions will remain pure conjecture.
This may be something to propose to the good folks at Wessex, as they are very careful and thorough in their R&D when developing a new model. For example, they completely re-engineered the 4th valve circuit of their 4-front-valve compensating euph after player trials and feedback.
FWIW - my 1966 345 BBb has a much larger bore in the 4th valve. I could pull out the calipers and measure, I suppose, but for now, I do know that the 4th valve tuning slide will swallow the other 3, and is too large to inadvertently insert into the other slides' places.roweenie wrote:I didn't know the 345 had this feature too - the ones I've seen didn't.
True, my experience is limited to BBb horns - I've never had an issue with "stuffy" low registers.