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Originally Posted by Vulgano Brother  I think any discussion of "fat" needs also the concept of "core," which is real difficult for me to describe. For me it's almost an intense, tangible, physical, even "solid" part of the trumpet sound (the mystic in me would describe the color of the core as "metallic") with the overtones dancing around the outside. |
"FAT!" has always been one of those loonie-tune words...used by so many human beings when our language fails us when we try to describe the voice of what a trumpet sounds like to us.
"FAT!"
When I think of a FAT SOUND...it brings up all kinds of mental pictures...I see a cartoon like trumpet that is seriously overweight...sloppy....that not only sounds sloppy but lookes equally sloppy...smells bad like an old Gym shorts put away in a dark-dank-locker and worn over and over each time. Plus the valves haven't been cleaned and the slides are stuck...YOU SEE WHERE I AM GOING?
Hummm? I wonder just how many words have been used over the years...that we use, in order to describe sound?
Bottom Line: OK! HOW MANY WORDS CAN WE THINK OF WHEN WE TRY TO DECRIBE HOW A TRUMPET SOUND EFFECTS OUR SENSES????
Almost impossible, huh? Each of us...hear what we LIKE or DISLIKE in our and others trumpet voicings.
I think it was Mike Vax...that once told us at a clinic...so many players...from beginner to seasoned professional that NO MATTER WHAT TRUMPET WE PICK UP....ALL OF US PRETTY MUCH SOUND...PRETTY MUCH LIKE WE ALWAYS HAVE...NO MATTER WHAT SIMILAR BRAND OF TRUMPET WE PUT TO OUR LIPS?
Right? Wrong?.....:) The quest for the perfect sound goes on and on...forever, n' all that jazz.