“Because trumpeting is often associated with intensely social events, expressing the very high level of excitement and importance of the event, it is not easy to ask elephants for trumpet calls!” But that did not deter a research team at the Laboratoire d’Acoustique de l’Université du Maine, Le Mans, France (assisted by the Zoo de […]
Tag: Brass
The distance between musical notes
Today’s quick calculation exercise is to calculate the relative distances between different musical notes and a trombone player’s face. Watch this video of a trombone player playing a tune on a trombone. A GoPro camera has been affixed to part of the trombone, and aimed at the musician’s face: (Thanks to investigator Dorothy Bond for […]
The Case of the Oleaginous Inlet
Ammonia is one of the few substances to give intergranular cracking on copper and brass. But how did ammonia get in contact with the tubing? Ammonia was not involved in manufacturing or installation. I scratched my head a good bit and came up with two possibilities that could have occurred during storage. One was that […]