Hey, that's an excellent question and one that I never addressed! I should take the slide apart in the next episode, whenever I make that. But the mechanism is a slide-within-a-slide. The part of the slide just past the two finger rings is adjustable, and you lock it down with a screw. It's kind of tough to put into words, I'll have to record a video for you soon...
The only person I ever saw play a MF Firebird was Maynard Ferguson. It was 1979 and it was in Royal Oak Michigan. The song was Carnival. Those were the days. MF was great.
NOTE: a friend of mine and huge Maynard Ferguson fan told me that he saw Maynard using a Firebird in 1978, and that it was credited on his albums as early as 1975. The dates that I quoted were sent to me in an email from Larry Ramirez himself. This may be because Maynard was playing a prototype, and that actual production of the horn began in 1983. Basically, ignore the exact dates, they're not that important to the playing technique anyways :-D
Indofunk Satish To make a Soprano Superbone I would take a Soprano Trombone & cut off enough tubing to put a Valve Block on from a Piccolo Trumpet w/ 4 Valves
Unfortunately, can't tell you. The Firebird, obviously, came with the slide so I couldn't A/B it with & without the slide. In fact, the only other Holton I've played is a ST307 which, although I found it to play much better than the Firebird to me, is still comparing 2 very different horns to each other. btw, if you want to take this discussion offline, feel free to contact me through my website: konakkol.com/content/about
How does the added slide affect the trumpets response? I'm used to my standard trumpet, and also I wonder how my trumpets freeblowingness is gonna change after my standard horn is customized to have a slide.
Hey, that's an excellent question and one that I never addressed! I should take the slide apart in the next episode, whenever I make that. But the mechanism is a slide-within-a-slide. The part of the slide just past the two finger rings is adjustable, and you lock it down with a screw. It's kind of tough to put into words, I'll have to record a video for you soon...
Loving the history lesson. Never got a chance to ask you about this stuff when we were working together.
The only person I ever saw play a MF Firebird was Maynard Ferguson. It was 1979 and it was in Royal Oak Michigan. The song was Carnival. Those were the days. MF was great.
I've seen a lot of horns, but never stumbled into this one. Genius idea. I see the slide and I'm thinking "yay, more low notes!"
"Superbone Meets the Bad Man", baby! Very cool post, Satish!
NOTE: a friend of mine and huge Maynard Ferguson fan told me that he saw Maynard using a Firebird in 1978, and that it was credited on his albums as early as 1975. The dates that I quoted were sent to me in an email from Larry Ramirez himself. This may be because Maynard was playing a prototype, and that actual production of the horn began in 1983.
Basically, ignore the exact dates, they're not that important to the playing technique anyways :-D
Indofunk Satish I'm getting a Super bone which is something you used to have, but I'm getting one of them someday.
Rarely fing them on eBay, However Schlub brass makes their own that work very well. There are a couple of videos of them on youtube
They now make Soprano Superbones (7 Position Firebird)
Indofunk Satish To make a Soprano Superbone I would take a Soprano Trombone & cut off enough tubing to put a Valve Block on from a Piccolo Trumpet w/ 4 Valves
Unfortunately, can't tell you. The Firebird, obviously, came with the slide so I couldn't A/B it with & without the slide. In fact, the only other Holton I've played is a ST307 which, although I found it to play much better than the Firebird to me, is still comparing 2 very different horns to each other.
btw, if you want to take this discussion offline, feel free to contact me through my website: konakkol.com/content/about
Cool man, keep up the posts!. You have a good sound too.
How does the added slide affect the trumpets response? I'm used to my standard trumpet, and also I wonder how my trumpets freeblowingness is gonna change after my standard horn is customized to have a slide.
how does the tuning work?
The Hand slide actually can adjust some notes that are out of tune
I want to buy one of these. Where can I find one?
Check ebay. One sold recently for $5600, significantly cheaper than a few years ago...
The trumpet wasn't good enough so they took part of the amazing trombone to make it better :P
Thanks just play it next time ,scales,, what ever.
Sorry about that! Check out part 2 & 3, I do more playing there...
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