Timeline for Comparing trumpet and saxophone
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 13:14 | comment | added | Mafii | Neither is the saxophone equally tempered. Playing in an orchestra, some notes (e.g. the middle d or on certain instruments c and c#) are way off in some keys. Your embouchure can adjust your intonation - I personally can go up and down by about half a step. Also there are alternate fingerings for some notes, to make them more in tune in certain keys, when playing in a band or orchestra. The sax doesn't just sound "right" if you press the keys for the note, even if it seems like it. | |
| May 27, 2016 at 19:59 | comment | added | Laurence | i.sstatic.net/vrMNa.jpg | |
| May 27, 2016 at 16:47 | comment | added | Tim | @LaurencePayne - thanks for that. I've messed about on trumpet for years, and mine actually has the third dynamically adjustable slide. Being self-taught, never realised! Just when you think you know quite a bit... | |
| May 27, 2016 at 15:49 | comment | added | Laurence | All trumpets have slides on all three valves, which may be preset. Professional-grade trumpets also have a dynamically-adjustable third valve slide, often also one on the first valve. youtube.com/watch?v=10jSplHmvQU | |
| May 27, 2016 at 15:23 | comment | added | Tim | @LaurencePayne - my trumpet has slides on all three valve tubes, but once they're set the thing's in tune. | |
| May 27, 2016 at 15:07 | comment | added | Laurence | Real-life instruments don't behave QUITE like laboratory experiments! Their tubing has bends, the bore is not constant, the mouthpiece has an effect - what comes out is rarely the strict harmonic series! But trumpets have finger-operated slides on 1st and 3rd valves, plenty of "alternative fingerings" and there's considerable scope for "playing in tune" (equal tempered or otherwise) by adjusting the embouchure. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 6:44 | comment | added | Tim | @NatalieK - thanks. Being wrong gives me a chance to do some more homework and learn something new. Edited answer. Hope it's better! | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 6:42 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2015 at 6:19 | comment | added | Natalie S | Trumpets (and brass in general) are not equal tempered. They produce notes of the harmonic series, which is just tempered. Brass players have to adjust tuning to fit equal temperament. | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 6:25 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
