Monette Club

@ROWUK Yes, I did some checking, Schilke Eb.

@grune said in Malcolm McNab: fabulous performance:

@barliman2001 yes, another incredible performance. If asked, I would not be able to say which is more. To think, these are performed with a traditional 3-valve Bb trumpet.

Has McNab ever revealed which brand of trumpet he prefers?

I believe that he was sponsored by B&S a while ago.

@grune I suspect that the Tchaikowsky was played on a 4 valved higher pitched trumpet like in Eb or E. That smoothness and evenness of tone would be a HUGE feat on a C trumpet. Towards the end of the last movement he also plays piccolo trumpet, but I suspect that those sections are edited in as there was no physical time to switch. All in all a truly remarkable reading with no compromise compared to the violin.

Malcolm did play a lot of his commercial stuff on an Eb trumpet.

I couldn't tell you what she is thinking. I read that article but it felt very vague and ambiguous on purpose.

I will be moving trumpet boards to a new server over the next few days. If you experience any interruptions (which I will try to keep minimal), that is why.

If you need anything please email me: info@trumpetboards.com

I saw this on TrumpetHerald. It's an interesting development, I wish her well. Success has its price, no doubt.

@Shifty I guess that means that the trumpet playing world will get uglier?

@J-Jericho
Dog Whistles!

@flugler Quoting us a price from Japan is very unrealistic as the market there is primarily for collectors - not players. Everywhere else in the world, people are looking for deals. 6 grand+ gets me a Monette or a Martin - both certainly in a different league than the Calicchio. Maybe I have not been paying attention here at TrumpetBoards, but I do not know of anyone here in that "more money than common sense" market.
The price is fine for Japan. That type of money here would be banking on the price going up. I do not see that happening. Calicchios reputation at the time was value for the price and Dominics service.

By the way, this is the wrong place for your post. It belongs in the classifieds section.

We have several concepts for pitch. They all need a certain degree of familiarity before we can be "successful".

Playing alone with or without a tuning device is dangerous as we do not play "well tempered". The tuning device is to get our concert Bb "in the ball park". If we play to all the other notes, they will never sound right.

Our performing pitch is always relevant to something else - it can be the last memory, or it can be another instrument or recording.

In addition, if we are playing with serious upper body tension, the pitch will sound sharp even although a tuning device would measure just fine. If we do not have enough tension, the sound is dull and it sounds flat although it may measure OK.

If you are not taking regular lessons, then just play along with recorded music. That can be a a CD with concert band music or marches. It can be church hymns or jazz standards. The important part is that you rediscover having your pitch relative to things around you (accompaniment) as well as playing enough to get a good resonant sound throughout the registers that CAN sound in tune.

Your actual problem is the ear/brain not talking to the body/lungs/embouchure, or the body/lungs/embouchure not reacting predictably to the signals coming from the brain. If you had these skills at one time in your life, then a lot of the work is already done. Simply play enough and those skills will move to the short term memory and become more automatic.