Instruments and acoustics
Trombone slide positions (the slide opens wider the further out you go)
The seven trombone slide positions at real size. They are not evenly spaced: 85mm from first to second, 113mm from sixth to seventh, each gap 1.0595 times the last — the twelfth root of two that spaces guitar frets, running outward instead of inward, because a slide lengthens the whole tube. Below: the partials at each position, and why an F attachment still cannot reach B1.
This drawing comes from one YAML file. No shape was moved by hand.
Notes in the source (in Japanese)
7 つのポジションは、等間隔ではない。 1 番と 2 番は 8.5cm、6 番と 7 番は 11.3cm 離れている。隣へ行くたびに 1.0595 倍(= 12√2)。
半音下げるには管を 2^(1/12) 倍にする。管が長くなるほど「その 5.95%」が増えるので、先へ行くほど間隔が開く。
ギターのフレット(見本 204・310)も 12√2 だが、詰まっていく。押さえたところから駒までの残りを短くしていくから。トロンボーンは管ぜんぶを長くしていくので、開いていく。式は同じで、測る向きが逆。
F 管の無いテナーの最低音は E2(7 番・第 2 倍音)。その下のペダル B♭1 までの 5 音(E♭2・D2・D♭2・C2・B1)は出ない。F 管はこの穴を埋めるために付いている。
それでも B1 は残る。 F 管側は管が 1.33 倍なので、同じ半音でも移動が 1.33 倍要る。C2 で 47mm、B1 で 198mm 足りない ——スライドの長さが先に尽きる。 バストロンボーンが 2 つめの弁を持つのは、そのため。
横だけが実寸(1px = 0.833mm)。②の升目の横位置は①の目盛りと同じ ——「その音は、スライドがここにあるときに出る」と読む。縦は音の高さで、寸法ではない。
管長 2.85m は、奏者の表(1 番から 3.25 / 6.75 / 10.5 / 14.5 / 18.75 / 23.25 インチ)から逆算した値。計算と表は、どこも 3.1mm 以内で合う(表は 1/4 インチ=6.35mm 刻み)。第 7 倍音の低さ:1200 × log2(7/4) − 1000 = −31 セント。
ギターのフレットは見本 204・310、楽譜の寸法は見本 210、ピアノの鍵盤は見本 311。
Source (YAML)
examples/gallery/350-トロンボーンのポジション.zumen.yaml
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