

I tried damping it with a tshirt wrapped around the bell and this works but I feel like this looks uncool and makes the trombone even more front heavy than it is already.
I wish they still made this, as I have very little skill to make this
haha, just had a very similar idea, see post above. I will try some "panzertape"ghmerrill wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:42 am As a quick trial, you might try "vet wrap", though it's now not popular to refer to it as that and you might have to look for "self-adhesive bandage" or "self-adherent wrap" or some such. That would at least show you what the effect of a similar sort of "dampener" would have, and you could either stick with it () or try something else. There are various sorts of (smooth flexible plastic) shelf/drawer liners out of which it would be pretty easy to make something (even with using some self-adhesive Velcro strips on the wrap so you could put it on and take it off). The major drug stores carry the self-adhesive bandage or you can get it from Amazon.
Thanks, I couldn't see any price on the website. So it is as suspected, more than the trombone did cost. I'll save the link, it really looks cool. Maybe I will "need" this in the future for another instrument.
I will check it again when I'm at home but I'm pretty sure those are solid.
That's exactly as you should expect. A mechanical resonance always sucks energy out of the system, though this one seems unusually extreme. I would not have thought it made that much difference to the wind column vibration.
It's easy to do. You sew a pattern of suede and Velcro display backing material along three sides (inside out), then pull it "inside out" through the open end, and close it by sewing a Velcro hook strip on. Sewing again around the outer edges and a few lines in the direction of the bell taper eliminates the pocket. The Velcro hook strip adheres to the display backing material.bassbone1993 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:14 amI wish they still made this, as I have very little skill to make this
On most of my musical instruments (and all of my bikes) I've spent more on subsequent maintenance/repair/modification than the initial purchase price. If I'm happy with the final total price for the thing I wind up with, all good.Doug Elliott wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:58 pm I never understand the point when somebody says "it costs more than the horn."
If you got the horn for free you wouldn't spend anything on it?
The thing with this instrument is, it has many more problems like pretty strange intonation, strange mouthpiece receiver, mediocre slide, bad balance (it has the tuning slide brace and counterweight ripped out, really wonder how that happened), is assembled skewy, has plenty dings and dongs and some other quirks.Doug Elliott wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:58 pm I never understand the point when somebody says "it costs more than the horn."
If you got the horn for free you wouldn't spend anything on it?
That trombone sounds awful!Nomsis wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 4:44 amThe thing with this instrument is, it has many more problems like pretty strange intonation, strange mouthpiece receiver, mediocre slide, bad balance (it has the tuning slide brace and counterweight ripped out, really wonder how that happened), is assembled skewy, has plenty dings and dongs and some other quirks.Doug Elliott wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:58 pm I never understand the point when somebody says "it costs more than the horn."
If you got the horn for free you wouldn't spend anything on it?
In short, I think for the money needed to make this a somewhat good instrument i could buy something way better. Thus I decided to not invest not much money in this instrument, it serves it purpose for me as something like a beater instrument for marching.
For my tape experiments, it is really strange, if I apply it tightly with a good fit it looks quite nice but it does nothing in preventing the bell vibrations. If I apply it really crinkly, lose and messy it looks very horrible but the vibrations are gone completely. Not sure if I can live with the horrible look though.