Primasonics Blog

I recently spent a few days in my homeland of Northern Ireland and travelled the short two hour trip from England in the large Stena Superfast VII ferry.

What a wonderful device our ear is, a complex structure which converts pressure fluctuations (sound waves) in the main manner by which we communicate with each other. Let me give you a brief outline of how this ingenious mechanism operates.

When I was young our annual family holiday was a week in a boarding house in Newcastle, County Down (where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea!).

There are many models of trumpet around, some mass produces whilst others are the result of years of painstaking design, superior manufacture and of course played by a real virtuoso. However how can a budding trumpet player determine whether he has spent his hard earned cash on a middle of the road, mass produces instrument or on a top quality trumpet which is not only designed and built to a very high standard but which also provides top quality performance every time? Not an easy question to answer unless one can call upon the services from a really top trumpet player whose ear is so finely tuned that he can select and guarantee the very finest instrument. One such quality trumpet is the Bach Stradivarius.

I was thinking of how I could link our innovative range of Sonic Soot Blowers with some of my favourite film stars and in the end the answer was simple - Bix Beiderbecke!