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@OldSchoolEuph said in LOGGING-IN PROBLEMS:

Well, changing my password does indeed seem to do the trick.

Question is, what if you get locked out - create a new account all the time? Doesn't seem like a good approach.

I wonder if this situation has any connection to how much shorter the list of those posting these days is relative to the list of registered users . . . .

No, I'm not sure why people are getting locked out. I will look into it. If you feel the need to create a second account that's fine; I can delete it fairly easily anyway.

That's strange. I can reset your password, if you want.

I once went through a phase of trying out all the oils.
The best oil I ever used was the (original formula) La Tromba T2. They seem to have changed the formula, though.

Now I just use what I have laying around as leftovers from that safari!

@Gendreauj said in Valve oils:

Administrator,
Have you used Ultra Pure black label valve oil?

Never heard of it, but I haven't looked up the latest and greatest in valve oil in a long time.

Hetman 3 is good stuff

At that price you can just throw it away and replace it anyway...isn't that the society we live in already?

@ROWUK said in V, V barrel and barrel trumpet mouthpieces:

@stumac I think that a "barrel" backbore would be something like the Schmidt Backbore that Schilke uses as well as certain hyperbolic shapes used by Monette.
Those that get excited about backbores need to keep in mind that the rim, cup, throat, leadpipe and bell are also in the system and that any advantage is very much dependent on the synergy.

A good playing mouthpiece with a standard backbore gets a flat upper register when we change the backbore in this way. Some like that because they play tense and that compensates...

I can't imagine changing backbore is a "quick" solution to any problems. Every part of the mouthpiece affects the other parts of the mouthpiece. Like you said -- it's a system and it has to all be in harmony to truly work well.

I liken it to a bike fit. You can raise or lower your seat, but then you need to adjust the fore & aft position, as well as angle, otherwise the whole system becomes compromised. Not sure I totally agree with that statement about the mouthpiece giving Miles Davis his "dark" sound. I'm pretty sure that sound came from his head first & foremost, and then his trumpet secondary.

@ROWUK said in Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet:

Mavbe some of us are reading the auction incorrectly. The engraving says Duke Donin FROM Louis Armstrong. Christies has a bunch of "non scientific" theories - not backed by documentation (invoice, serial number. history):
https://www.christies.com/features/The-1948-Louis-Satchmo-Armstrong-trumpet-10881-3.aspx

Certainly a collectors item, but you really have to want to believe the conjecture about Louis having actually played theis horn...

And they are asking a lot of money...

I read an article once in the ITG Journal that basically claimed the metalline structure of brass changes over time to match the playing characteristics of its owner. So, perhaps it isn't too uncouth to say that you would sound like Herseth on Herseth's horn, or like Satchmo on Satchmo's horn.