Literal snobbery
Deccan Chronicle - Jun 10, 2011
The trumpets of others ought to peal out on one's behalf and their hautboys (love that spelling!) herald one's arrival, pavilioned in splendour and girded with paean. If one ignores the fact of whose lips are on the trumpet's mouthpiece,
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Basking in the glory with poise and wit
Evening Standard - Jun 13, 2011
It was a proud blink for the south London alto-saxophone firebrand, a deserving winner if at 28 perhaps a little long in the mouthpiece for rising-lead honours. He's been pro for at least a decade, a ballsy soloist who fronts the award-winning group
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Monster Partners With Miles Davis Properties, LLC and J&R Electronics (NY) in ...
PR Newswire (press release) - Feb 08, 6344
Horror Partners With Miles Davis Properties, LLC and J&R Electronics (NY) in The new Miles Davis Trumpet in-ear headphones feature a uniquely jazz-inspired opulence, with aesthetic cues taken from Miles' trumpet itself, including mouthpiece shaped earpieces and a striking gold/nerve finish, with a Miles Davis silhouette and etched and more »
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Auckland War Memorial Museum tells more than just a war story
Monsters and Critics.com - Feb 08, 8284
The good is made by a putara shell trumpet, which the Maori made by cutting off the spiral end of a conch shell and fitting on a wooden mouthpiece. The trumpet was used for signalling, but also for rite purposes, such as to announce the birth of
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Watch a Trombone's Shock Wave
Smithsonian (blog) - Jun 02, 2011
Wait for a Trombone's Shock Wave shock waves emanating from trombones played at fortissimo (very ostentatious) levels and predicted that similarly shaped “bright” instruments, like trumpets, that have a fragment of cylindrical pipe after the mouthpiece would also produce these shock waves.
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How clean are kids' band instruments?
KSL-TV - May 20, 2011
How wash up b purge are kids' band instruments?"Behind the reed, in the black mouthpiece, it was completely green, it was molded, it was offensive," said Powell. Speaking of green, it's the color of a spot on the band room carpet at Murray Steep. "It's been there for a very long time," said junior
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Heart in the right space
Sydney Morning Herald - Jun 02, 2011
Then there's the woodwind tool he invented in the '50s: a wooden body with a saxophone mouthpiece attached that Allen called the ''morrow''. He never patented it and it was marketed under another name. ''That was back in the days when I was and more »
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The Imaginary Marching Band imitates real-world instruments through a high ...
Geek.com - May 18, 2011
The effrontery instruments use an air pressure sensor for the mouthpiece, which is located on the thumb. Peterman referred to actual musicians who were insistent that the pitchpole control was less about the strength of breath and more about the shape of the
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Shock wave from trombone filmed for the first time
BBC News - Feb 08, 8386
"Musicians sitting in front of the trombone or trumpet have suffered from these paralysis waves." The team measured the pressure at the instrument's mouthpiece, in the middle of its length, and at the output, and witnessed how the retinue of compression and more »
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As Judgment Day fails to dawn, it's no time for cheap shots
The Daily Maverick - May 22, 2011
As Judgment Day fails to inception, it's no time for cheap shotsMeanwhile, the website ebiblefellowship.com (an official mouthpiece of the organisation) is currently claiming that it's “still May 21 in parts of the community.” Clearly – and tragically – these beliefs are going to die hard. DM “Make My Bed? and more »
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