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Anyone else not like horns?
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Yeah, big debate over whether the material of construction even matters to sound of woodwinds I remember spending 3 summers of landscaping money--3K--on a LaBlanc clarinet instead of a car when I was 17...for the "tone" (well, and the quality of craftsmanship)....but there are people making woodwinds out of pipe, pvc, garden hoses....
As you wish. I play brass, so it doesn't affect me either way (unless we have too few of one or the other to make the ensemble sound good).
Even the tin whistle is a woodwind - doesn’t make sense to me either but there it is...
Sick to death of guitars. When listening to any rock music I imagine what it would sound like with a full symphony in lieu of the guitars. A horns-only substitute for the guitars in any band would be fine by me so long as there is no more than two saxophones.
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I have no use for tweeters in bass cabs and seldom enjoy bands who have a bassist who uses a tweeter-loaded cab with the tweeter on.
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A hornless bass guitar could be appealing- but it’d have to have some humps to make up for the loss.
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I have no use for tweeters in bass cabs and seldom enjoy bands who have a bassist who uses a tweeter-loaded cab with the tweeter on.
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A hornless bass guitar could be appealing- but it’d have to have some humps to make up for the loss.
All tin whistles make sound by the air vibrating between the mouthpiece lip and the wooden fipple inside the mouthpiece
Not if they don’t have a wooden fipple...
most tin whistles use plastic these days. I believe many used metal to make the air vibrate...
every tin whistle i have ever seen has a wooden fipple, regardless of the material of the body or mouthpiece
The Wooden Fipple Controversy would also be a good name for a band
The ubiquitous protrusions are there in fact, as @LBS pointed out, for balance. I won't even consider a bass without an upper horn extended to the 12th fret. Wanted to love the Thumb I had, sold it.
I'm not playing the 3" wide, suede backed, clipped to your belt strap crap.
Or the title of the second album by the Ubiquitous Protrusions.
And what of plastic recorders?
Yes originally the used wood (a fipple to get their sound)
How about flutes? Almost exclusively metal but again - originally used wood to get their sound.
I know I’m being pedantic but reeds also use “wood” to get their sound and that is why they are woodwinds - not because they are made of wood...
