{"id":2489,"date":"2011-11-11T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:21:11","slug":"a-transparent-tuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"A Transparent Tuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve forgotten who sent this link to me, so I apologize for not giving credit. \u00a0I&#8217;ve posted lots of videos and photos of brass players using transparent mouthpieces, here&#8217;s Brian Kane playing a transparent tuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VEYYSJ5VRFI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s also playing a transparent mouthpiece, but the camera doesn&#8217;t focus on it to see his air stream direction. \u00a0Probably downstream, but that&#8217;s always a probable guess simply because most players are statistically more likely to be downstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Kane&#8217;s comments on the diameter of the tubing and how it affects the upper register of that instrument is interesting. &nbsp;Building a brass instrument to play well in all registers is a complicated thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve forgotten who sent this link to me, so I apologize for not giving credit. \u00a0I&#8217;ve posted lots of videos and photos of brass players using transparent mouthpieces, here&#8217;s Brian Kane playing a transparent tuba. He&#8217;s also playing a transparent mouthpiece, but the camera doesn&#8217;t focus on it to see his air stream direction. \u00a0Probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=2489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Transparent Tuba<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1361,1362,1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acoustics","category-brass","category-tuba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-E9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}