Vuvuzela
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A friend of mine, and fellow trumpet player, who is from Miami, just shared this breakthrough video with me introducing me to the Vuvuzela. I assure you that this is not X Rated, even though it sounds like it should be! It is a Bb instrument popularized in South Africa, used primarily for cheering in soccer stadiums. It also has tremendous potential for legitimate performances.
The first video is an introductory video, while the second is a complete Vuvuzela Quartet performance. I am greatly indebted my good friend, J. R.. I have used his initials only, in order to protect his privacy. If his true identity were made public, the overwhelming response would never allow him to have peace in his private life. Incidentally, there are surprisingly many boutique manufacturers of Vuvuzelas. When I searched Vuvuzela on Amazon, I stopped counting after the 71st listing. -
Good news!!! When I directed the above post to my friend J.R., and asked whether he would object to his name being used, he answered, “Why not. My reputation is already trashed”. Therefore, we should all thank Jeffrey Roth of Miami for bringing the Vuvuzela to light, and invite him to become an active member of this forum!
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This is more or less very cold coffee. The Vuvuzela became popular during the 2010 soccer world championships in South Africa and took over stadiums during the 2014 champoinships in Germany. For that reason, most vuvuzelas on the market today are in the German national colours, black, red and gold (as can be seen in both videos).
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Interesting. I always thought these resembled the smaller of Tutankhamen's trumpets, and now we hear something similar with more contemporary music. I suppose that intonation in the first video suffers due to the tongue-in-cheek method, whereas the second is very nicely done.
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@J-Jericho said in Vuvuzela:
Interesting. I always thought these resembled the smaller of Tutankhamen's trumpets, and now we hear something similar with more contemporary music. I suppose that intonation in the first video suffers due to the tongue-in-cheek method, whereas the second is very nicely done.
I agree completely. As well, the Vuvuzela is a plastic version of animal horns such as the Shofar and African Kudu Horn.
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I have seen too many ancient instruments that take a great deal of perseverance to sound anything other than a cow breaking wind.
I have also seen unsophisticated unpracticed members of the public pick up a wonderful modern brass instrument that is capable of great beauty, and they blow as hard and as loud as they can making a wonderful instrument sound like a pigs rear end.
A good player can make a bad instrument sound great, a bad player can make a great instrument sound bad.
That is all that is happening here.
Back in 2010 gorillas decided to blow the heck out of a tube they called a vuvuzella with the intent to sound as bad as humanly possible, and they achieved that quite outstandingly.
They get drunk and then they use aerosol powered fog horns to make as much noise as possible at football matches.
Was there any doubt that the vuvuzella would sound anything other than abominable in their hands.
I rest my case.
