User talk:Yeodoug

Doug, I wikified your contribution along the lines described via email. A couple of extra points.
 * It's customary to begin an article with a short definitional paragraph before the first major heading.
 * Restored my note about the Roman buccina because it is customary to help users who land on an article by mistake disambiguate themselves to the place they were seeking (so this note exists not to support the bucin as much as those seeking out the Roman buccina who landed here by mistake).
 * Copied the instrument infobox from the trombone article. You could flesh this out with its name(s) in other languages (which is likely to be bucin, buccin, or buccina in every language that has a word for it) as well as noting the musical range.  See Playing range which discusses pedal tones and screech notes.  The trumpet entry supplied an image of a musical staff which is rather ambitious.
 * Restored the article to the brass instruments category. It's looking very good now thanks to your contribution.
 * Changed semantic endashes and emdashes to their corresponding special characters. Note the width of the dash in the date range is now slightly longer than a hyphen.

I left some text from the trombone infobox in the buccin infobox as HTML comments as an indication of what might be expected in those fields.


 * After reviewing my original notes in Talk:Buccin it strikes me that we should add a section modern performance. Is it true that the baritone horn is the most suitable modern replacement?  What characteristics does the instrument possess which can't be replicated with a modern substitute?  Notes on your performance experience would be invaluable.

MaxEnt 00:41, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeodoug 02 June 2006
 * I'm not aware of any piece of music that specifically calls for the buccin apart from the Berlioz "Messe solennelle" which is referenced in the article. When the buccin was popular, it likely usually played trombone parts and was played by trombone players.  While the buccin has a softer and rougher sound than the trombone (depending on how loudly it is played), it still is a form of trombone so a trombone would be the best modern substitue.  But since it has no real dedicated repertoire, I'm not sure a reference to "modern performance" is really necessary.

Bill Pearce edits
Doug, I saw your edit on the Bill Pearce page. You absolutely correct, most of the information DID come from your interview. (I'm the editor that wrote the wiki entry ) thank you! There's almost no other information on the net about him. Thanks for the interview (and the mp3's of him on the Trombone !! ) His "Joshua fought the battle of Jericho" is outlandish, I didn't think a trombone could play that high! Once again, thank you for the interview ! KoshVorlon Naluboutes ''AeriaGloris 19:53, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Low brass articles

 * Hi there, I've recently purchased your excellent illustrated dictionary and I hope you'll forgive me in that I have used it as an excellent citation resource for several articles along with the Bevan, Guion and Herbert books. I've been lamenting the state of the low brass articles on Wikipedia for many years now, but I finally decided to do something about it and I hope I've brought some of them up to a more deserving standard. In fact, I'd really like to get some of them through Wikipedia's "Good Article" review process, at which point I would especially love to have your feedback, review, withering criticism, all gratefully received :-) I'm hoping to do this with at least serpent, ophicleide, cimbasso, contrabass trombone, bass trombone and possibly even soprano trombone (just for fun!) Cheers, — Jon (talk) 02:31, 19 August 2022 (UTC)