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| A beautiful nickel-silver and brass Trumpet with mother-of-pearl inlay on the keys. It has a wonderful and characteristic timbre.
Recorded staccato, legato, sustained, muted, vibrato and swells. |
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| A superb nickel-silver and brass trombone with a full, resonant sound.
Recorded staccato, legato, sustained, muted, vibrato and swells. |
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| An incredible instrument, this Bass Trombone takes up where the trombone leaves off. It is able to get very low tones approaching, and even surpassing Barritones and yet can be played high enough to resemble a trumpet.
Recorded staccato, legato, sustained, vibrato and swells. |
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| This large Barritone has a deep, natural tone that recorded beautifully in our large, reflective space.
Recorded staccato, legato, sustained, vibrato and swells. |
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| A massive Tuba that shook the foundation when played in the lower registers. Phenomenal for orchestral scoring!
Recorded staccato, legato, sustained, vibrato and swells. |
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| This suspended brass Gong is an East Asian musical instrument that takes the form of a flat metal disc which is typically hit with a mallet.
It has an amazingly large sound and can last for minutes if allowed to resonate till total silence (we did).
We played this gong many ways and even suspended it over the bells of the Tuba and Barritone and placed the condenser microphones next to it, which gave us a really weird and alien sound that has to be heard to be believed! |
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The Created Instruments: |
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| This one may seem obvious, but if you take various sizes of copper and brass piping and a very large person who can blow extremely hard and with various techniques, you get some really wild brass sounds! |
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| Who knew? It seems that PVC pipe has yet another use. Once again, cut various sizes, add weird joints and angles and blow really, really hard and you get some impressive brass-like sounds! |
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| Take the hoses off your automatic pool cleaner and rotate and bend them properly and you get some really amazing sounds - from airy "whoos" to brassy tones - it's all in the technique. You get solos, two handed and a duo (4 of them going at once) at various sizes and chords! |
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