Featured Product
BUZZ-BUDDY with cloth travel bag
£38.00
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
Please order in advance using our contact page:
https://www.halsteadmusic.co.uk/contact
We will not request any money until we have more stocks
of the Buzz Buddy.
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The HALSTEAD BUZZ-BUDDY is a superb,
ingenious practising aid.
It encourages, focuses and strengthens buzzing on the
mouthpiece by adding a similar degree of resistance to that
of a horn.
It has long been recognized by many players and teachers
that too much buzzing on the mouthpiece alone can
cause undesirable results to the embouchure.
The HALSTEAD BUZZ-BUDDY was developed
specifically to address this problem.
It is a narrow-bore brass tube, tapered at
both ends, with a single vent-hole placed strategically near
the mouthpiece-receiver. Its fundamental pitch with
the hole closed is that of a horn in F's 'Eb' above middle C.
All pitches lower than this can be buzzed (as 'factitious'
tones bent down from the fundamental) with the hole
closed by a finger or thumb.
An un-vented pipe of this length does not produce any
further buzzable HIGHER pitches between this note and 'top C'
(the 2nd harmonic an octave higher than the fundamental).
Opening the Buzz-Buddy's vent-hole permits the buzzing
of all higher pitches, as far as one's embouchure can sound.
The Halstead Buzz-Buddy is made of high-quality hand-polished
brass, and is small enough to fit in a pocket.
It comes in a hand-stitched cloth travel bag.
It is much less expensive than e.g. a good-
quality mouthpiece.