Problemi pratici nella costruzione degli aerofoni
Inviato: 23/04/2021, 15:42
Come promesso lo scriba MaMut ha deciso di slogarsi le dita per trascrivere tutto il contenuto del:
C.G. Conn Practical Problems in Building Wind Instruments, 1942
https://www.saxophone.org/museum/publications/id/318.
L'impresa è assai ardua ma ad aiutare il nostro si è aggiunto Pta noto disegnatore egizio per le illustrazioni.
Ovviamente il nostro scriba trascriverà tutta l'opera per parti dovendo egli scrivere per i Sacerdoti del Tempio di Abu Simbel noti per non amare ritardi nelle consegne.
Quindi abbiate pazienza con il nostro scriba se impiegherà un certo tempo a concludere l'opera
FOREWORD
Seldom does a manufacturer publicize the deficiencies of his product.
On the rare occasions when he does, it is done usually as an excuse for telling how he has overcome the deficiency and made the product better.
The past tense is almost invariably used in speaking of a deficiency; a deficiency almost never exists in the present.
But in publishing these bulletins, Conn admits deficiencies exist in Conn instruments - deficiencies which exist today and have not yet been overcome!
This is not a daring thing to do, however, for two reasons:
1) All makes of wind instruments have the same defects, regardless of whether they are admitted or not.
2) Conn has done more to overcome these defects than any other manufacturer, and consequently admitting the defects is less damaging to Conn than similar admissions by others.
We have another reason for admitting these deficiencies. If users of Conn instruments understand the shortcoming of wind instruments, they will not expect performance by Conn instruments beyond what can reasonably be expected.
To advertise an instrument as being "perfect" when by all the laws of physical science it is somewhat less than perfect, is to create unnecessary dissatisfaction and invite complaints.
Naturally these bulletins are not for general consumption. They are published for the more serious minded musicians and teachers - people who will take the time and trouble to think these problems through, people who really want to know the facts.
Much of the information in these bulletins is published here for the first time anywhere. Only in the minds and in the note books of acoustical research engineers have many of these facts existed before. We feel it is time this information is released to the public, so that many of the fetishes and much of the hokum about wind instruments can be eliminated.
We do this, not to establish alibis for the shortcomings which exist in wind instruments so that musicians will be contented with imperfect instruments, but so they will have patience and understanding while Conn's Research Laboratory - the only full-time research laboratory in the band instrument industry - labors with renewed vigor to make Conn instruments easier to play and brings them closer and closer to perfection.
C. G. Conn LTD.
C.G. Conn Practical Problems in Building Wind Instruments, 1942
https://www.saxophone.org/museum/publications/id/318.
L'impresa è assai ardua ma ad aiutare il nostro si è aggiunto Pta noto disegnatore egizio per le illustrazioni.
Ovviamente il nostro scriba trascriverà tutta l'opera per parti dovendo egli scrivere per i Sacerdoti del Tempio di Abu Simbel noti per non amare ritardi nelle consegne.
Quindi abbiate pazienza con il nostro scriba se impiegherà un certo tempo a concludere l'opera
FOREWORD
Seldom does a manufacturer publicize the deficiencies of his product.
On the rare occasions when he does, it is done usually as an excuse for telling how he has overcome the deficiency and made the product better.
The past tense is almost invariably used in speaking of a deficiency; a deficiency almost never exists in the present.
But in publishing these bulletins, Conn admits deficiencies exist in Conn instruments - deficiencies which exist today and have not yet been overcome!
This is not a daring thing to do, however, for two reasons:
1) All makes of wind instruments have the same defects, regardless of whether they are admitted or not.
2) Conn has done more to overcome these defects than any other manufacturer, and consequently admitting the defects is less damaging to Conn than similar admissions by others.
We have another reason for admitting these deficiencies. If users of Conn instruments understand the shortcoming of wind instruments, they will not expect performance by Conn instruments beyond what can reasonably be expected.
To advertise an instrument as being "perfect" when by all the laws of physical science it is somewhat less than perfect, is to create unnecessary dissatisfaction and invite complaints.
Naturally these bulletins are not for general consumption. They are published for the more serious minded musicians and teachers - people who will take the time and trouble to think these problems through, people who really want to know the facts.
Much of the information in these bulletins is published here for the first time anywhere. Only in the minds and in the note books of acoustical research engineers have many of these facts existed before. We feel it is time this information is released to the public, so that many of the fetishes and much of the hokum about wind instruments can be eliminated.
We do this, not to establish alibis for the shortcomings which exist in wind instruments so that musicians will be contented with imperfect instruments, but so they will have patience and understanding while Conn's Research Laboratory - the only full-time research laboratory in the band instrument industry - labors with renewed vigor to make Conn instruments easier to play and brings them closer and closer to perfection.
C. G. Conn LTD.