Category : Music


Here’s the measurements that has been calculated for plastic tubing brass instruments. (Editor’s note: we can’t call ’em “hosaphones,” as that word has been, believe it or not, trademarked.) The formula for calculating the length of a tube, given that you want it to resonate at a specific frequency is as follows: The speed of ..

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Things are being migrated from my professional website (rlbyrd.com) as time permits. For the time being, you can look here, where some of my works are ..

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All works available for sale.  Title and medium given; more information, recordings and/or electronic realizations available upon request. Eight Bagatelles (1978) piano Suite No. 1 for Brass Quartet (1981) brass quartet Suite No. 2 for Brass Quartet (1981) brass quartet Concert March in F minor (1981) band Two Experimental Preludes (1981) piano Sonata for Trombone ..

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