Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!sdh From: sdh@rabbit.UUCP (S. Hawley) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: wind instruments and even-tempered scales Message-ID: <2597@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 22:07:11 EST Article-I.D.: rabbit.2597 Posted: Mon Mar 12 22:07:11 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 20:19:50 EST References: <758@unm-cvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 24 I've been studying the trumpet for about 9 years now. After my 5th year I started to develop decent tone in playing, but the major conquest that I have yet to overcome is intonation. Even though a B-flat trumpet is supposedly the easiest trumpet to play in tune, it is still very, very hard to get the intonation perfect. The major adjustments are made by the use of the slides connected to the valves while playing. Minor adjustments are tough to make with any degree of accuracy with slides. This is done by 'bending' the note with your lips. I find that in professional groups the accent is not on the rhythms or such but rather on being able to listen to each other to adjust the intonation while playing. I was in an elite all-state ensemble two years ago, and I remember spending most of the rehearsal playing passages over and over just to get them in tune. One drawback of trumpets is that as you play louder the sound tends to go flat. In my case, My higher register tends to go way sharp which can sound pretty raunchy if I'm playing in octaves. "Life.. don't talk to me about life" -Marvin Steve Hawley!rabbit!sdh