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@ROWUK I am closer now....

@Trumpetsplus BTW to the OP, I once added a 5th valve to a brand new Stomvi Titan. It was one of my last jobs before leaving the US for Germany.

@ROWUK Most of my playing is on 4 valve trumpets. I use a quarter tone Bb for most of my jazz gigs, an ascending valve Bb for Concert Band and an ascending valve C for classical. I also have a double bell Bb which I almost never use (anyone want one?) and i have a prototype 4 valve (low F) Bb. When I need the extended low E on my C I have a third slide equipped with an 4th valve extension, rather like the Yamaha piccolo. BTW they all play great!

Very sad. Thanks for posting this.

Yeah, I would reach out to one of a few people. Also consider Michael Del Quadro of Del Quadro Trumpets.

@Dale-Proctor said in The Sounds of Silence:

Speaking of yard work, my wife and I spent about 30 hours replacing rotting wooden landscape timbers at the rear of the house with stone borders, as well as moving some plants and providing shallow steps from the yard to one of the bird baths. We redid a smaller natural area in the front yard, too. The total was about 225 stones. Yeah, we’re retired too…lol

It looks very nice. Do you have a big crop of cicadas this year?

Trumpet requires such high internal pressures, I'm surprised more people don't have medical issues. Do you think that playing a lower brass instrument could be a valid solution?

@J-Jericho said in Holton 605 serial number:

A quick DuckDuckGo.com search provided:

https://brasshistory.net/Holton Brass List.pdf

You, sir, get a 20,000% raise!

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

@administrator
How much do you love it?

Haha, I see where you're going! Someday I'll have to commission something.

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

Saw this farm a couple of weeks ago. I have seen it probably a hundred times, but this time I saw it differently. Stopped on the side of the road and took several pics. And here’s what I came up with. Hopewell, NJ farm.

I love it!