Book about tuba construction and design

[Art Hovey]

Benade's "Horns, Strings, and Harmony" would be a good start.

[Chuck(G)]

I've seen a practical brass construction book (proportions, techniques, measurements, etc.) but it's all in German. If you're interested, I'll see if I can dig it up.

[Daniel C. Oberloh]

I've seen a practical brass construction book (proportions, techniques, measurements, etc.) but it's all in German. If you're interested, I'll see if I can dig it up.

You must be talking about Metallblasinstrumentenbau. Yeah its in German but it is mostly real nice technical drawings. I have a copy that I pull out when I need a little help working out a custom linkage design. It can be usefull if you already have some machiening abillity as it gives simple visual clues how one goes about making parts such as braces and valves. I have included a few images from the book.







Where you can get a copy today, is anyones guess.


Daniel C. Oberloh
Oberloh Woodwind and Brass Works

[Chuck(G)]

That's the one, Dan.

I suspect that there are other books on construction for the German brass makers, but I have no idea where or how you'd get your hands on them.

From a historical standpoint, there's a rather expensive (for its size) book on Baroque trumpet construction by Robert Barclay, published by Oxford University Press. You won't find a word about valves in there, but I found it interesting from the standpoint of "How do you make a trumpet from a tree, a rock and a cow?"

[dietrich]

There is an other book in german:
Bahnert,Herzberg,Schrammm:
Metallblasinstrumente
Florian Noetzel Verlag
"Heinrichshofen-Bücher" Wilhelmshaven
ISBN 3-7959-0466-8

[Alex C]

The Conn Corporation did tons of R&D on instrument design in the 20's and 30's. Unbelievably, they published it.

I used to have one 30-40 page booklet, a long time ago, on the acoustics of instrument making. It was not as technical as some of the acousitcs books I've seen and all of the information was applicable toward instuments.

I'm sureI don't have it anymore but someone may have access to a couple.

[Dan Schultz]

..... You must be talking about Metallblasinstrumentenbau....

Several copies of a book with this title are available from:


http://www.abebooks.com

[Sam Gnagey]

Chris,
If you're interested in this, perhaps you should make it down to my shop.
I'd be happy to show you or anyone what we do and how things go together here.
Sam

[Chuck(G)]

Chris,
If you're interested in this, perhaps you should make it down to my shop.
I'd be happy to show you or anyone what we do and how things go together here.
Sam

[Sam Gnagey]

Chuck, I see that you're at it again with that damn spy camera of yours.