Is this 'that; a singing tone we all longing for. If I'd close my eyes, I could say it is voice. Thank you for outstanding musicianship and terrific idea to marry old-timer brass to sorted repertoire.
The RUclips algorithm dropped your Conn Mellophone performance on my feed, and I was really pleased at your playing and musicality. And this awful-clide ;) performance is no exception. I could tell that you were really trying to blow down on some of those sustained notes and nicely done. I’ve known about that instrument but nothing more… how do you adjust pitch on that horn? Is it like a saxophone and the player can adjust the neck? Great style and playing again.
Thank you for the kind words. There are actually two types of Ophicleide; one has a neck/mouthpipe, called 'bocal', that is only circular tubing, so that can only be adjusted by inserting it more or less deep into the instrument. The other type is like mine, where the bocal also has a tuning slide, so that can be finetuned by extending that. But then the placement of the tone holes does limit the overall tuning, so a lot of lipping is still necessary.
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Is this 'that; a singing tone we all longing for. If I'd close my eyes, I could say it is voice. Thank you for outstanding musicianship and terrific idea to marry old-timer brass to sorted repertoire.
The RUclips algorithm dropped your Conn Mellophone performance on my feed, and I was really pleased at your playing and musicality. And this awful-clide ;) performance is no exception. I could tell that you were really trying to blow down on some of those sustained notes and nicely done. I’ve known about that instrument but nothing more… how do you adjust pitch on that horn? Is it like a saxophone and the player can adjust the neck? Great style and playing again.
Thank you for the kind words.
There are actually two types of Ophicleide; one has a neck/mouthpipe, called 'bocal', that is only circular tubing, so that can only be adjusted by inserting it more or less deep into the instrument. The other type is like mine, where the bocal also has a tuning slide, so that can be finetuned by extending that. But then the placement of the tone holes does limit the overall tuning, so a lot of lipping is still necessary.