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Life & fun · June 19, 2021

Play a physically simulated trombone in the browser

Play a physically simulated trombone in the browser launched on June 19, 2021 with 9 votes, #1,339 of 3,650 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

At the most basic level, one plays the trombone by blowing into it while holding the lips against the mouthpiece. The lips vibrate open and closed, at a speed depending on how much tension they have. The lips vibrating causes the air in the trombone to vibrate, producing a sound emanating from the bell. The faster the lips vibrate (because of more tension), the higher the note produced. When the lips slow down (because of less tension), the note is lower. However for a fixed length of tube, only certain notes will sound out loud. These notes are called resonances. These notes have large gaps between them, large enough that not every in-between note can be produced. (Just like a bugle, which…from nuchi.github.io

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