Tromba Marina (Trompette Marine)

[lalungenuictdestens]

Check this instrument in action! watch?v=Xxxf5nXBbRU

[piper102206]

These are used on pipe organs

[lalungenuictdestens]

@piper102206 That's not true! The organ stops are called after many instruments (flutes, trumpets, crummhorn, etc) but that doesn't mean that there are flutes, trumpets, crummhorns and trompettes marines inside the organ!

[MilleHiighPie]

this could drive a person to madness

[crashbigtime]

There is another instrument based on the harmonics of a single string (and it manages the in-between notes, too); check out the Vietnamese "dan bau."

[harmono]

@crashbigtime Yes, and they sound beutiful when played in unison like a symphony.

[AndyHirt]

Well, there is only one string. So you put your fingers on the nodal points. So it plays the harmonic series. I don't think that that was done here. The pitches match (roughly) the natural scale. I wonder about this recording...

[eltorten]

Sounds like a really cheap Kazzoo...

[JackTheFossilMan]

my god that sounds awful.

[Envergure]

Ewww, what a racket!

[1osta]

Spannend! Wirklich sehr spannend! - Beste Grüße aus Deutschland.

[proserepair]

A wonderful gift for young nieces and nephews. Imagine the endless hours of joy as the children entertain their parents.

[kkallebb]

Thanks, I've always wondered what those things sounded like.

[grapesoda4me420]

im pretty sure thats a marine trumpet not a trumpet marine

[kadjrare]

this is so wierd. SO MANY PARALLEL FIFTHS

[kadjrare]

this is so wierd. SO MANY PARALLEL FIFTHS

[kadjrare]

this is so wierd. SO MANY PARALLEL FIFTHS

[redtails]

Sounds like the instrument has a lot more potential, plus must be a mighty sound

[maxfulle]

@redtails

Actually if it's well played it sounds much more like a natural trumpet.

[fenevadka]

Got to agree that this performance is not very good. It's like the recordings where people play hurdy-gurdies badly and then talk about how dumb the instruments were. In this case Munrow is way overdoing the buzzing bridge and seems to be bowing every single note up, rather than using the bridge for articulation and accent.

[coupedefleur]

the recording is from an old David Munrow LP - Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1976), and is a little mediaeval instrument, like the ones seen in paintings by Memling- only about 3' long.

The Baroque-Classical one shown in the photo does a much better imitation of a natural trumpet.

A lot of these recordings are the result of someone fooling around for a few months. You would need to compare them with a recording of someone who played a violin for that long, to be fair.

[dubbedcrazy]

cool

[Njurvar]

Finally we get the to hear this lovely instrument! Can you please record something more, it would be great to see how it is actually played.

[Yossus]

This picture was on our Physics exam today!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

[lalungenuictdestens]

Hahaha? Really? What was the theme? Acoustics?

[Cymro32]

It was on mine too! It was about standing waves and how the standing wave changes when you touch the string in different points.

[Yossus]

kind of^^ it was about standing waves...

[vetro1982]

STUPENDE LE SCARPE DELL'INTERPRETE.

:D

scherzi a parte, grazie per l'esempio utilissimo !!! non avevo mai sentito una tromba marina!

[dellerbasalvtore]

Very Interesting !!

[akugluk]

so, I'm a fan of the trumpet marine, but this is not one of the more skilled performances that I've heard. There have been masters. Most stringed instruments sound fairly horrible in the hands of people who don't know how to play them. shouldn't blame the instrument for that!

[hsu912174]

Get a bounch of them tuned in different keys, and you can play Water Music! (Last time I checked, the sound is purely natural harmonics on the strings, therefore we can safely assume its a natural instrument.)

[musicalqueen101]

Heehee! How did you know I was reading The Would-Be Gentleman? Thank you! :)

[partridgehearne]

You have to hear them live to get the full horror. Apparanly popular with German nuns!

[lalungenuictdestens]

Haha! :P actually I don't know what to say! I like the noisy medieval instruments... I myself have several very very loud and noisy medieval double reed instruments! For me it's not horrible! ;) I Prefer 1.000 times my bombarde than a classical clarinet or piano :S I hate them! That's horror for me.

[dirk1606]

@lalungenuictdestens he guy! i feel exactly the same! it's a pitty , that it turned out that the extensive use of crumhorns as in the 1970's is by far not as authentic as they thought then! i do love them so much!

igreet you, lalunge...,

dirk

[opus88888]

@lalungenuictdestens Who are the performers?

[lalungenuictdestens]

@opus88888 Aaah! generic players to show the instrument, not a name given,

[VICECORE2011]

@lalungenuictdestens i totally agree. I really like how the didgeridoo and something like this really physically fills the air and will echo through mountains and valleys...

[crazyclarinetplayer]

@lalungenuictdestens As a clarinet player who wants a shawm, I just took offence :(

[lalungenuictdestens]

@crazyclarinetplayer Hehe... anglos in every part of the world always get offended for anything... that's why you created the "politically correct way of speaking". How susceptible are you british people.

[kirstenellin]

@partridgehearne HAhaha, love your comment! ;-)

[kirstenellin]

@partridgehearne Hahaha, love your comment! >;-)

[dolofonos]

@partridgehearne My reading suggests that in the hands of a competent player, the instrument is as brilliant as the trumpet.

[tuppiz]

This sounds horrible

[lalungenuictdestens]

Agreed! ;)

[whizkidforte]

Hey! That reminded me of a video entitled, "How To Play The Violin!"

When I was watching it (watch?v=HUpggXGHYjk, to be exact), the thought of a tromba marina popped up in my head! The violin in which Johnny is forced by his parents to play sounded like a badly played one! LOL!!! XD

[cd75]

a trumpet that you bow. now i've seen everything

[lalungenuictdestens]

No no... a bowed string instrument intended to sound similar to a trumpet :)

[emilygclarinet]

Wow, what a sound!

[RBenham]

Are there really g clarinets?

[lalungenuictdestens]

Yes it is! ;)

[lalungenuictdestens]

No! they aren't the "g" in emilygclarinet stands for her last name! ;)