Music

While not studying i play the trombone - wish in some way also is studying. If you've got in the play-devils claws then you've got caugt! It began then i stopped choirsinging and began play the baryton because i liked it's nice, soft sound. Later i switched to the trombone. In he beginning i was sceptic about the trombone as a musical instrument, mostly because trombones staff in brass-ensembles often is rather boring. But as i say about my playing: "It's a hell of larm, but you tend to be used with it!".

Currently i'm using thre bones: a Vincent Bach stradivarius #36, a Yamaha YSL-354 and a King of unknown model. They are feacible for different occasions: The Bach #36 has a great broad sound called "classic Bach-sound" - it's the one i use mostly but it has a real heavy coffin and has a thin bell. The latter gives the broad sound but makes it sensitive. And the classical Bach-sound is not always feacible in sections there others use small trombones because the Bach have a lot of frequencies more whish gives the impression i play a lot louder. The Yamaha YSL-354:an is light and more portable, has thicker metal, fewer overtones, and does not require the same amount of air. The King:en is an old student-bone feacible for partys and happenings. It's built of pansar and can also be used as an percussion-instrument. I also switch to my trumpet getting some rest for the bone-sound. The trumpet i use is some english Embassy. I even play trumpet in bass-cleff, but one octave up.

Mouthpieces: Musicians often discuss mouthpieces, naturally because of interesst but also for being social. I've used Denis Wick 6BS for a long time and it's a good one. For some year ago i switched to Denis Wick 4&1/2 which is bigger. It always feel harder to play on an bigger mouthpiece than usual but getting used to it it's no problem. A big mouthpeace can give better, clearer tone but it can also give extra resonance at low frequencis (which i think is realy cool playing rock!). I'm considering using some Bach 12C mouthpiece for the very high range - it's not very funny blowing some venes in the throat then playing four octaves above the "ground-tone" for the trombone. It would also be interesting to try some Jazz-mouthpiece just for fun.

Trombone-solos is even fun to play on the King becaus it's size makes it draw little air and the sound is easy to modulate / distort. But i prefer the Bach. I´ve laid many years of hard work at some pieces which i soon will record and publish here.

The King is somesort of special because it's under an endless developement. I've airbrushed it yellow and builds it out with extra equipment like bells, tubes, slangs, instrument-parts and some elektronics. For a while ago the King happened to be connected to a tenor-saxophone whish sounded exactly as bad as you can think. I've tried out an homebuilt frequency-dividing circuit which builds chords downwards the tone i play which partly has sound good to hard-rock but almost sounds rather bad.Click here for hearing some of it's characteristics. In the future i'll make some phase-locking circuit (PLL) based on some Motorola 4046 which should build chords upwards the played tone. The circuit will give good sound and should have good opportunites for variation because i put on all the knobs, leds, potentiometers and buttons you can need. I also think of making some nice distortion with some phentod without negative feedback, but it may be simpler to cheat using some well-selected germanium-diodes which can give the same effect.

There are also a lot more ideas for the King like a "turbo" by some compressor-horn activated for curtain tones. Fan-cooled GTO-thyristorbased amplification-stage for driving some loudspeacher-matrix. Afterburner with fotogentank for outdoor performings. It would also be very decorative with some rotating flashlights and the scull from an elk.

Past the last cristmas the yelllow King-trombone did is duty as a christmas-tree. Hanging in a rope with multi-colored christmastree-lights and beutiful stars on the bell. Now the King is a trombone again.

Currently i play in Malardalens Univeristys student-orchestra called MdH-Gurkblas, the very somewhat locally renowned Vasteras Stadsmusikkar which is a symphonic brass orchestra and Volvo's nice representation-orchestra VOLVO-orkestern in our music-town Eskilstuna.