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Re: Baritone/Baritone

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Subject: Re: Baritone/Baritone
From: Tom Sheridan <tom_s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:01:30 GMT
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As an interested outsider in this debate, can I make a comment?  
There seems to be a remarkable lack of hard numbers in this 
discussion.  

I would have thought that the following parameters would be useful in 
characterizing a brass instrument:

* length of tube
* internal diameter at mouthpiece end
* taper, in percent
* bell final diameter
* metal thickness

I think another figure or pair of figures describing how the tube ends 
and the bell starts would be useful, but I'm not sure about the best 
way to do this.

I suggest the taper in percent to cut down any confusion over measurement 
units.  Otherwise we'll get mils per inch, thou per inch, mm per cm.

Maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about, and these numbers are 
just not important compared to various less tangible properties that I as 
a non-brass player have failed to appreciate.

Tom Sheridan
Percussionist, Failsworth Band
Manchester UK


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