Comments on: instrument-a-day 5: bass horn http://www.moonmilk.com/2010/02/05/instrument-a-day-5-bass-horn/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:59:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: przxqgl http://www.moonmilk.com/2010/02/05/instrument-a-day-5-bass-horn/comment-page-1/#comment-83723 przxqgl Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:00:14 +0000 http://www.moonmilk.com/2010/02/05/instrument-a-day-5-bass-horn/#comment-83723 a long time ago, i had this idea to make an instrument called a "gronkhorn", which is a 12 foot long piece of inch-and-a-half diameter PVC tubing with a bass clarinet mouthpiece attached, except that instead of having a bass clarinet reed, it had a stiff-but-floppy bit of plastic instead. i played it, and it made the most phenomenal noises imaginable, and was really good at scaring away the teenaged doodlehums that would sneak into my side yard from the skating rink across the street to smoke pot... 8) mine didn't have finger holes, though... a 12 foot long tube has enough natural harmonics that it didn't really need them... 8) a long time ago, i had this idea to make an instrument called a “gronkhorn”, which is a 12 foot long piece of inch-and-a-half diameter PVC tubing with a bass clarinet mouthpiece attached, except that instead of having a bass clarinet reed, it had a stiff-but-floppy bit of plastic instead. i played it, and it made the most phenomenal noises imaginable, and was really good at scaring away the teenaged doodlehums that would sneak into my side yard from the skating rink across the street to smoke pot… 8)

mine didn’t have finger holes, though… a 12 foot long tube has enough natural harmonics that it didn’t really need them… 8)

]]> By: Doctroid http://www.moonmilk.com/2010/02/05/instrument-a-day-5-bass-horn/comment-page-1/#comment-83684 Doctroid Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:17:06 +0000 http://www.moonmilk.com/2010/02/05/instrument-a-day-5-bass-horn/#comment-83684 Finger holes aren't shown but I suspect it's more a matter of finger holes too small compared to the cross sectional area -- of course making the instrument narrower would fix that too. (Notice how large the holes are at the wide end of a saxophone; of course they're covered by pads rather than fingers.) Somewhere I have a spreadsheet for calculating tone hole sizes/positions, though that's probably not in the spirit of the project... Finger holes aren’t shown but I suspect it’s more a matter of finger holes too small compared to the cross sectional area — of course making the instrument narrower would fix that too. (Notice how large the holes are at the wide end of a saxophone; of course they’re covered by pads rather than fingers.) Somewhere I have a spreadsheet for calculating tone hole sizes/positions, though that’s probably not in the spirit of the project…

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