Our Newest Innovation, the Double Venturi
V2 leadpipe
We're listening to you. Every player's dream is to own a horn that 'plays by itself'. What does this mean? Most horns amplify the energy of your lip vibrations most strongly in the mid range of the instrument, not where you need help the most, the upper and lower registers. We've finally found a way around this. Our new double venturi leadpipe system, partially cross-sectioned below amplifies more strongly than any current design both above and below the mid range.
It is really a pipe within a pipe, one soldered inside of another. The acoustic result is pictured below in what is known as an impedance curve. Please refer to our publication entitled, "Acoustic Primer" for how this computer-driven, electronic means of measuring an instruments' acoustical properties, and hence its' playing characteristcs, tells us what a player can expect.
The green peaks represent the 'strength' of the resonance of the horn at its individual open harmonics. The distance between the peaks on the frequency axis (x) represent the intonation of the notes and the height of the individual peaks represents their strength of resonance. It should be clear, that relative to the red line, the amplitude envelope of a typical one piece pipe, the V2 tends to amplify more at the extremes of the instrument's range. Because the tapers of the leadpipe must be matched to those of the rest of the instrument, we are currently unable to offer it for models other than our own.