Technology, trumpets & tunes
By: InCA ; BBC ; presented by Films for the Humanities and Sciences ; producer/director, Brian Johnson
Contributors: Independent Communications Associates; British Broadcasting Corporation; Royal Institution of Great Britain; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: Science and music; Exploring music -- [v.] 4; Royal Institution Christmas lectures
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Music; Acoustics and physics; Musical instruments; Wind instruments; Sound-waves; Musical perception
Other titles: Technology, trumpets and tunes
Description: "Despite its title, this program actually covers all the wind instruments, including the pipe organ. It considers the way in which the technology of making instruments has affected the course of musical development, particularly the development of valves for trumpets and Boehm's system of woodwind keys. The program examines the subject of vibrations in tubes, the role of finger holes, and the components of tone quality. It concludes by putting a camera inside a large church organ to show what happens inside this marvelous combination of thousands of pipes, hundreds of yards of pneumatic tubing or electric cables, and countless valves or relays in response to the movements of the organist's hands and feet."--Container.
Notes: Videodisc release of the Royal Institution 1989 Christmas Lectures.

Executive producer, William Wollard ; associate producer, Richard Thomson ; camera supervisor, Barry Chaston ; production manager, Gabi Kabza.

Charles Taylor.

DVD.