FIRST for Non-Engineering Students

[keehun]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

Keehun, the next time you've got the trumpet in your hands and there's a couple of bars of rest on the score, take the "measure" of your instrument and consider the engineering that must have been required to get it into your hands. Metallurgy, applied physics, etc. etc. all played a part in the fabrication of your horn. If FIRST is the reason you or anyone else has a degree of appreciation for some other discipline, then it's a good result for all of us.

You bring up something I've been thinking about. So some of the best trumpet players around have started up designing their own horns and making companies. Several well known are Vincent Bach and Monette (Monette is like the Lamborghini of all trumpets. 200hrs worth of hand-made artistry craft. Wynton Marsalis plays on one). I was thinking about prototyping my own horn and developing it as I become a better performer. Anyhow, it's just an idea...