Slang synonyms for mis-articulating a note?

Bob Mosso · Post by **Bob Mosso** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:29 pm

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?

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:26 pm

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

UDELBR · Post by **UDELBR** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:42 pm

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

Bill Troiano · Post by **Bill Troiano** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:59 pm

"crack" a note?

GC · Post by GC » Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:02 pm

@#%$^* &%$#@

tubalamb · Post by **tubalamb** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:24 pm

Splee-yah

Tubadork · Post by **Tubadork** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:29 pm

gank, clip, bobbled

Brucom · Post by **Brucom** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:11 pm

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

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:01 pm

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.

David Zerkel · Post by **David Zerkel** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:06 pm

Involuntary nuance.

joebob · Post by **joebob** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:11 pm

premature articulation

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:19 pm

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

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:29 pm

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".

Stefan Kac · Post by **Stefan Kac** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:50 pm

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.

dtemp · Post by **dtemp** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:57 pm

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

...Maybe that was a Wisconsin thing.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:13 am

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!

The Impaler · Post by **The Impaler** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:29 am

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."

Ed Jones · Post by **Ed Jones** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:26 am

Approximatura

Guessamente

W · Post by W » Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:07 am

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

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

UDELBR · Post by **UDELBR** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:11 am

W wrote: and the easily noticable "spyaaaah"

Forgot that one: "spleeeyah".

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