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Originally Posted by veery715  I have often wondered about feeling vibrations in your hands. Ideally there should be no vibrations exiting the horn that your hands can feel. The ideal horn (non-existent) is said to be one which doesn't vibrate at all, allowing all sound vibrations to come out the bell. Is it possible those vibrations you feel are being subtracted from those which should be coming out of the bell? |
I am not sure that there shouldn't be any vibrations mechanically passed to the player. It would surely make the sound of the horn more "individual" (mass and damping properties of the player) and give you some feedback even in acoustically difficult situations.
The second issue, if all the vibrations come out of the bell, there is no immediate feedback to the player. We all rely on what is radiated from the outside of the bell to tell us how loud we are playing. It also determines what we think our sound is like (the audience has a much different impression however).