Trumpet character vocabulary

[seppop]

Hi everybody!

I have played trumpet 13 years now, and in embarrassed thus I still don't know the vocabulary of trumpet character.

If somebody can explain me what does the following words mean exactly, I'll be very graceful.

1. Projection
2. Slotting
3. Balance
4. Response

and if you don't mind the following too. These I suppose I understand:
5. Free-blowing/resistance
6. Centered tone

If there is some more vocabulary of the character of trumpet you can explain those too...

-Seppop

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[KevinPierce]

Projection- how a trumpets sound travels
Slotting- how a note locks in (tune, how easy it is to bend, etc.)
Balance-not sure.
Response- how quickly a horn makes results from your effort, and how easily
Resistance- The amount of back pressure
Centered tone- A nice rounded in-tune sound.
Thats my interpretation of them, this will be interesting

[franke]

well this is how i describe them(for the time being)

1)Projection - how well your sound carries out into the audience or beyond, also its goes toward how your sound sounds xyz distance from wher you are

2)slotting - how well the notes "fit" into the harmonic series. e.x. a b flat above the staff slots well is kinda like saying it doesnt slide very easily into the high c or a flat or it feels "comfertable" or "secure" in its shelf.

3) blend - how easily it allows a player to be a timbre chameleon. if your in a section of lead latin players or wagner players, how easily your horn lets you sound like everyone else (an organ concept) the more control over your timbre your given the better blend youll have (assuming the "nuetral" timbre of the horn is reletivly "nuetral")

4)response - how much you have to "work" the horn in order to get the articulations/timbre (but more than anyrhing else articulations imo) the way you want them. the less you have to adjust to the horn the more responsive (to you the player at that moment) the horn is

5)resistance - to me usually refers to how "tight" the horn feels blowing wise, if its a "small" bore or a tight backbore on the mpc its got a higher resistance. so to me it means that there is more to "push agianest" in concern to air.

6)centered tone - to me a tones center is first whever the tone is "choice" wether in tune or not. once the note has a great sound then a tone is centered (but not at all neccessarily in tune). generally the closer in tune a centered tone is the better the horn


agiuan just my interpretation of these term at the break of dawn.