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Anyone know of an instrument that bases pitch control entirely off embouchure?
So I just got a cheap-O Craigslist trumpet. When I play just the mouth piece, I can play any note I want instantly without thinking about it. I can play along to any melody in existence without figuring out the scale or chords. But if I do the same thing with the mouthpiece attached to the trumpet, I'm at the mercy of the valves and harmonics, and can't find the exact note I want as intuitively. Does anyone know of an instrument (either acoustic or electric) where the primary 'oscillator' is based on breath, and the pitch control is entirely dictated by the pitch of my embouchure, like with a trumpet mouthpiece? Could I hack a melodica to do this?
I could simply feed the mouthpiece into MIDI guitar 2 or Vocal Synth on the iPad, or a similar app. But those results usually aren't as acoustically responsive as I'd like for something like this
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You definitely cannot hack a melodica to do that. Maybe look at overtone flutes but you will definitely be missing some notes.
Didgeridoo is like a massive embouchure ... without the trumpet attached to it
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But the fundamentals and harmonics are dictated by the length of the didge
Bugle. But same thing, you only have certain overtones. That’s what the valves do, they change the length of the pipe to give you the different ones you need.
Although I do have an electric kazoo, that can be plugged into effects and give you all sorts of interesting sounds. No lie.
Right, it's physics. What you really hear is you imparting a pitch through the exciter, rather than via the exciter, that normally gets filtered to the harmonic series through the more dominant air column of the full instrument.
Why not just learn the fingerings for trumpet? If you have the embouchure under your belt, that’s the hard work done. Fingerings for trumpet don’t take long to learn.
I understand the fingerings well enough. Played back in high school, and I also I mapped the fingerings over a picture of my Linnstrument, so all the knowledge I have on the Linnstrument instantly transfers to the trumpet. I just wanted something as mind numbingly easy as playing the mouthpiece by itself, which doesn't seem to be limited by overtone limitations of bugels, like y'all mentioned.
@mrufino1 That electric kazoo sounds promising! Is it custom?
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What about a microphone and some pitch to MIDI software, or pitch correction software?
Just blow your trumpet mouthpiece into the mic, let Thumbjam translate it to midi.