{"items": [{"author": "Micah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117907658942", "anchor": "fb-10100117907658942", "service": "fb", "text": "Reminds me of Peter Schickele's tromboon: \"a hybrid \u2013 that's the nicer word \u2013 constructed from the parts of a bassoon and a trombone; it has all the disadvantages of both\"", "timestamp": "1571927696"}, {"author": "Bill", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117907658942&reply_comment_id=10100117911296652", "anchor": "fb-10100117907658942_10100117911296652", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Micah as compared to the ophicleide, a 19th-century brass instrument that resembles a bassoon in form and a saxophone in key system.", "timestamp": "1571929818"}, {"author": "Angela", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117910608032", "anchor": "fb-10100117910608032", "service": "fb", "text": "If you come down to Gainesville, FL, I can bring you to my dad's place. He's a collector of vintage cornets. There are a few horns in the house with two bells, and also some rotary-valved instruments. The two-bell horns, however, are mostly designed so that you wouldn't need to have a mute to get certain effects:<br>https://www.vintagecornets.com/html/echo_cornets.htm", "timestamp": "1571929079"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117910608032&reply_comment_id=10100117914634962", "anchor": "fb-10100117910608032_10100117914634962", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Yes, all the multi-bell brass instruments I've found that were at all successful seem to have solved the problem \"how do I not have to carry two instruments\" or \"how can I switch between two instruments easily\"?", "timestamp": "1571931932"}, {"author": "Angela", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117910747752", "anchor": "fb-10100117910747752", "service": "fb", "text": "In the greater-Boston area, Chris Belluscio may be of help!", "timestamp": "1571929168"}, {"author": "Julia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117911281682", "anchor": "fb-10100117911281682", "service": "fb", "text": "Then there are things like:<br>https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/705275<br>Pinterest has a wide variety of weird brass instruments: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/419960733983070399/?lp=true", "timestamp": "1571929813"}, {"author": "Hollis", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117912264712", "anchor": "fb-10100117912264712", "service": "fb", "text": "Related term: Schalme/Schalmei relates closely to the older English words \"shawm\" and \"shalme\", both referring to capped-reed predecessors of the modern oboe. They're single-bore instruments, not these multi-bored ones, but there's a long history of them in early and medieval music if you're interested. <br><br>I spent a lot of time reading about them (and their reed design/bore dynamics) when I was teaching myself to make bagpipe reeds, since there weren't extant manuscripts on how to make working border pipe reeds for my instrument.", "timestamp": "1571930259"}, {"author": "Leah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117915198832", "anchor": "fb-10100117915198832", "service": "fb", "text": "Wait, but there *are* valved conical-bore instruments. Is the idea just that they could be *more* conical than they are?", "timestamp": "1571932356"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117915198832&reply_comment_id=10100117917873472", "anchor": "fb-10100117915198832_10100117917873472", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Leah yes: existing valved conical bore instruments are only mostly conically bored", "timestamp": "1571933702"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117915198832&reply_comment_id=10100117921735732", "anchor": "fb-10100117915198832_10100117921735732", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;If you think about how a valve allows choosing whether to use an intermediate section of tubing you can see that it's not possible to have a consistent ramp for both valve positions.", "timestamp": "1571936162"}, {"author": "Leah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117915198832&reply_comment_id=10100117921890422", "anchor": "fb-10100117915198832_10100117921890422", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Yeah, no, that makes sense", "timestamp": "1571936222"}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117918671872", "anchor": "fb-10100117918671872", "service": "fb", "text": "Nit: regarding your search term suggestions, \"Schalmeien\" is just the plural form of \"Schalmei\". I suppose people typically only sell one Schalmei at a time, unless they're outfitting a whole school", "timestamp": "1571933973"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117918671872&reply_comment_id=10100117921900402", "anchor": "fb-10100117918671872_10100117921900402", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Alex yup! It turns out the good videos are for several, while if I do make the poor choice of bidding on eBay it will be for a single one", "timestamp": "1571936227"}, {"author": "Aaron", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117921311582", "anchor": "fb-10100117921311582", "service": "fb", "text": "Probably more than anyone else on the internet, you think about the same things I do. Except you (in this case) go farther with the research or (in cases like https://www.jefftk.com/p/rearranging-axis-49-keys and https://www.jefftk.com/p/whistle-based-synthesis) actually make a thing.<br><br>&lt;3", "timestamp": "1571936017"}, {"author": "Micah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117922075052", "anchor": "fb-10100117922075052", "service": "fb", "text": "Also, apparently Schalmei is the german for \"shawm\", which is a word encountered in more\u2026 prestigious circles.", "timestamp": "1571936316"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100117906052162?comment_id=10100117925593002", "anchor": "fb-10100117925593002", "service": "fb", "text": "I especially like the Schalmei videos of Germans in traditional dress playing silly pop covers", "timestamp": "1571938389"}, {"author": "Pattern", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PZiRZoxp8RAqq9mRH#WyiD6t5FvEFX4RD7x", "anchor": "lw-WyiD6t5FvEFX4RD7x", "service": "lw", "text": " They seem to be German; to find more videos search for &quot;Schalmeien&quot;, while if you want to buy one (please don&apos;t) search for &quot;Schalmei&quot;.<br><br>Why the request to not buy one?", "timestamp": 1571941607}, {"author": "rmoehn", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PZiRZoxp8RAqq9mRH#PN92Cz8Ds7uzPjKws", "anchor": "lw-PN92Cz8Ds7uzPjKws", "service": "lw", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Watch the last linked video and listen to the opinion, then form your own. You might come to the same conclusion. :-)\n<br><br>By the way, I'm German and as a child I liked to hear the Schalmeienkapelle of my village play. If I heard them live these days, however, I might want to get out of earshot quickly. Then again, it might take time to develop an appreciation. The strangest musical styles exist around the world.\n", "timestamp": 1571988896}, {"author": "Sherrinford", "source_link": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PZiRZoxp8RAqq9mRH#jWNqt5wykRBfGkZ7E", "anchor": "lw-jWNqt5wykRBfGkZ7E", "service": "lw", "text": "The word Schalmei can mean some different things: <br><br>https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schalmei_(Begriffskl%C3%A4rung)<br><br>The kind of brass instrument you refer to is also called Martinstrompete, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinstrompete and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folgetonhorn#Martin-Horn/Martinshorn (In German, &quot;Martinshorn&quot; is also the word for the sound-making thing in fire engines, and yes that is technically related.)", "timestamp": 1571998854}]}