Music is the Food of Primasonics Development

At Primasonics we are totally committed to a continuing programme of R & D involving two UK leading acoustic universities. One of our ongoing projects is the design of an ultra powerful 30 Hz acoustic cleaner. We know from our extensive market research that there is a very good potential market for such a model and so to boost our innovative inspiration we turned to the world of music, or to be more correct, to study the design and performance of those musical instruments which were specifically designed to provide pure tones at lower frequencies and a very interesting and informative exercise it turned out to be.

Two musical instruments were of particular interest to me – the Sousaphone and the Wagner Tuba.

In basic terms the Sousaphone is a large brass wind instrument, similar in range to the tuba but having a more flared ‘bell’ and round shape making it suitable to be carried in marching bands. It gets its name from John Philip Sousa, who was in charge of the US Marine Band in the 1890s. He asked instrument makers J W Pepper to modify an existing instrument called the Helicon and henceforth this musical instrument was named in his honour.

This led me on to study the Wagner Tuba, which I believe was first produced in Germany by instrument maker Adolphe Sax who then demonstrated it to composer Richard Wagner in 1853. Wagner really liked the horn’s deep, rich sound and began to incorporate it into his orchestral compositions – hence it became known as the Wagner Tuba.

A good friend of mine who also happens to be an excellent composer and accomplished guitarist, Stephen Caudel composed 'The Edel Rhapsody’ for Solo Bb Tenor Wagner Tuba and Orchestra, first performed in 1993 in Carlisle Cathedral in the North of England.

Stephen’s undoubted musical talent and inspiration fired my own desire to provide all our Primasonics customers with the widest range, the finest quality and the best performing range of Acoustic Cleaners – worldwide!