Big Band Concert tonight

7/24/2011

Tonight I'm playing with the Talbert Big Band in Winona. I always forget to post performances, but today I remembered!

Getting excited for our upcoming roadtrip to include masterclasses in Kansas City, Houston, Austin and the Satchmo Jazz Fest in New Orleans! I'll be bringing a special trumpet in honor of the Satchmo fest...

2 Comments

Greg Zent

8/10/2011 04:05:56 am

Jason,

You asked, so here goes - make a plan to move away from brass as your base material. With the advent of new materials that outperform brass its a promising new area of instrument building, that being non-metaliic, high performance materials.

It seems to me that there are more efficient ways of creating complex shapes than carving them out of blocks of brass.

Greg

Jason Harrelson

8/14/2011 02:26:26 am

Hmm...I don't see the logic in moving away from brass to non-metallic materials. You're saying I should moving away from cutting metal. What facts, experiments or evidence brought you to this conclusion? And what are "high performance materials"? Also, what "more efficient ways of creating complex shapes" am I missing? Casting is inaccurate, deformation and shrinking are major problems. Injection molding would require plastics/resins which are not suitable for brass instruments and once again are not economical to create complex shapes. One mold could take months to produce before the part could even be tested. Making changes could take another month...slow and very expensive. So what am I missing here?

I get a lot of advice from engineering-minded well-intentioned people who have very limited experience with various manufacturing processes. Watching a youtube video of a process doesn't mean it is suitable, economical or even a possible solution to my production needs. To date, machining a block of metal is more accurate, logical, efficient, faster and economical than any other production process invented.

I welcome anyone out there to prove me wrong :)

Jason

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