Vulgano Brother

Well, I did leave out the part about violas. I said it in German (Swabian) though:"Sagamal, kannst Du nicht lauter als 60db spielen?" ("C'mon can't you play louder than 60db?") I would then say:
"Versuchamal mein Geraetle kaput zu machen!" ("Try to break my machine!")

Being German they love bells and whistles, and since most were teenage boys they liked breaking stuff, too. I developed some pretty loud players.

gglassmeyer

In our concert band we just performed Mars from Holst's the Planets. I'm sure the women in the flute section weren't happy after that one. The ending to that piece they just have to sit there and duck and cover. Very dangerous noise levels!

Solar Bell

At the last ITG conference at U Mass, one of the vendors had a computer set-up to show visual images of music, or sound. He also had a decibel meter.

SOme of the guys were fooling around with it in the morning before the vendor rooms opened.

About 6 or 7 of us tried it out.....repeatedly.

Bobby from the Synergy Brass group "won" the "compettition" using my Solar Bell Eclipse.

He blew 126 decibels!

Next was another one time TMer who blew 124 decibels.

Alas, I was only 3rd with 123 decibels.

It was a pretty funny morning!


-cw-

DarkKnight88

Alot of the dynamics and volume levels that the brass players do in that piece are absolutely insane! Its one of my favorite pieces of orchestral/symphonic music.