@Dr-Mark said in Tuning Tendencies:
@Richard-III said in Tuning Tendencies:
Totally agree with the behind the bell and the actual sound being different. I've recorded many a practice and performance and listened back. Some instruments have issues to work around and others are just about perfect, with no slide use. Listen to some old recordings before there were slides and recording technology to correct tuning and they managed to play in tune. So why not now?
That's a great question but I'm not knowledged enough in antique trumpets to answer. I know little to nothing about old horns. However, there are people on this site that can field this question. We have serious brass technicians and trumpet builders that can answer your question. Possibly trumpetsplus or flugelgirl can help.
Well this is an enormous subject, however we know several things: Older instruments were built with the valve slides deliberately long (flat), recording fidelity was not to the same standard as today, and we are talking about supremely talented players that could probably have made even a pTrumpet sound great!
This abstract describes a change in intended slide lengths between the 1930s and the 1960s.