[Dixielandjazz] euphonium

[David Richoux]

I found this archive on a trombone list - lots of comments on this  
great debate:
http://www.trombone.org/trombone-l/archives/0012/001207_1886.txt   
(search "plural")

I still have not found a correct chart for instrument names - there  
is a good one in "The Tuba Family" by Clifford Bevan (a book all  
tubists/euphonists should have.)

Dave Richoux
On Jun 8, 2006, at 2:14 PM, mmckay wrote:

>  Good job Rich. I was working on the concept of "sort of conical"  
> and that
> handles it.
>
> The explanation I was always given was that the sound waves of the  
> conical
> bore instruments "tumble and roll" and so blend in/blend together  
> well.
> Trumpet and that side of the brasses have a tubular shape that  
> tends to put
> much more edge on the sound waves (again, think of sound waves  
> taking on a
> circular saw shape -- the analogy shape wise is on fair, but the  
> concept is
> good) and so they cut through the other instruments rather than  
> blend. Ergo,
> trumpets in an orchestra or if you want the sound to cut through,  
> cornets
> where you want more blend and homogony.
>
> That got me though various music classes in the past.
>
> Mart
>
> Martin D. McKay
>