Hold on then...

[solarbird]

So I'm listening to the intro of "Catch You Catch Me" and I suddenly realise that I'm listening to slide trumpets, an instrument which, of course, does not exist (and I don't think can exist), but that despite this insufficiency of creation can now in fact be heard, courtesy of the creative use of sampling synthesizers.

I'm listening to the sound of something that doesn't exist.

I think that's really cool.


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Comments

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

nah... you're just hearing things, like the little voices that say "fly little birdie, fly.. you know you wanna do it, so flyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"... ok, I've been up too long... Ignore me- I'm off to bed...

[wrog]

slide trumpets, an instrument which, of course, does not exist (and I don't think can exist)

Ummm, wanna bet?
Say, $299, just to pick a random number out of the air?

[kyriani.livejournal.com]

Oooooh thank you for sharing!
I played both Trumpet and Trombone in band (as well as other things heh), that really rocks. ^_^

[solarbird]

Buzzkill.

But two things in my defense:

1. In the article, a musician and music teacher was as surprised as I was, and
2. I'd heard of soprano trombones but thought they'd sound like, you know, higher-pitched trombones, not like trumpets.

I still think they were using a trumpet sample on a synth.

[wrog]

1. Fair enough. I didn't know they existed until I googled for it (though it seemed odd to me that somebody wouldn't have tried to build such a thing at some point)
   
   
2. For the brass instruments, what affects the sound are basically the shape of the mouthpiece and the diameter profile of the pipe, choices for the latter being mainly between:
   • cylindrical bore, i.e., stays mostly the same width for much of its length (trumpet, trombone)
   • conical bore, i.e., starts small, gets gradually larger (cornet, french horn, baritone)
   cylindrical is more penetrating, conical gives you a broad mellow tone.
   
   The point being that something that uses a trumpet mouthpiece, is of trumpet length and has a cylindrical bore, may as well be a trumpet (and that goes even if the pipe is twisted around a bit differently).

[solarbird]

It had always seemed likely to me that the valve assembly's presence would have such an impact upon the sound that I couldn't imagine you'd get the same sound from one as the other. (E.g., a tenor trumpet does not sound like a slide trombone. I thought that was from the presence of a valve assembly.) But the mouthpiece difference apparently explains that.