Multiphonics

[zhaoweidatubist]

When is multiphonics actually useful... besides for fneugg. I guess it just sounds cool... but has no real purpose

[hup_d_dup]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIr1FkQ9bEg" target="_blank

Start around 9:20.

[jerseyeuph]

Also, check out:
Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone)
Joe Fielder (trombone)
Howard Johnson (tuba)

among many others in the brass world and elsewhere.

[Ken Herrick]

Unless you play didge....
AND...…
Some horn players get paid for playing a well known concerto...……..

FAKE NEWS!!!!!

[Three Valves]

“ Multiphonics” are a bit like “ophicleide playing”, are they not?
YouTube tells us that there are a handful of people in the world that can do it extraordinarily well, but there just isn’t any demand for it, nor money involved in doing it.

Along with poetry, pontification, smartassery...

[GC]

I had to play a solo with multiphonics on my senior recital in the early '70's. It was interesting and fun, but I've never done it since. It's sort of like NAMM Show Chops.

[windshieldbug]

Hate to say so, but they are very effective playing the Bach ‘cello suites...

[BabaStrong]

It's useful in my church gig. There isn't a third trombone but there is often a third trombone/tuba part. When it's in octaves it doesn't matter, but every now and then it's a brass feature and the third trombone part is the only one with a third or fifth but the tuba is playing the root so I sing the trombone part.

[The Brute Squad]

Back when I was younger and in better playing shape, I played caprice #24 by Paganini using multiphonics on one of the movements instead of the violin double stops. It was pretty cool.

I heard James Ehnes play #20 last year as an encore and remember thinking that's one that would be fun to play with multiphonics.