Southwest (USA) Group

@oldschooleuph
I agree. Beautiful horn. Sell it for what it's worth. If you do donate -- please give to a VERY deserving student who will take very good care of said horn and appreciate the generosity.

Did A-N-A Mendez ever make his way back?

“Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.” — Dizzy Gillespie

@tjcombo

From Wikipedia: In 1955 Gleason gambled on making it (The Honeymooners) a separate series entirely. These are the "Classic 39" episodes, which finished 19th in the ratings for their only season. They were filmed with a new DuMont process, Electronicam; like kinescopes, it preserved a live performance on film but with higher quality, comparable to a motion picture. That turned out to be Gleason's most prescient move. A decade later, he aired the half-hour Honeymooners in syndicated reruns that began to build a loyal and growing audience, making the show a television icon.

Frame from the end of this episode.

@tjcombo said in Jackie Gleason Plays Cornet:

Apart from the funny, cornety bits, a couple of things struck me in that video.. First was what a great quality clip it was. Not sure whether the originally episode was on film or maybe it was restored.
The other was Gleeson's character waving his fist in his wife's face on a coupler of occasions. What was funny and normal has certainly changed, dare I suggest, for the better.

Right? Granted, I don't think the schtick was that he actually threatened her, but it's an interesting cultural thing to note.

I liked the message of the episode as a whole.

@trumpetlearner

And the LEAST common method is probably the one I use on my Connstellation. Two zip/cable ties added to adjacent pipes so that the "knobs" hit. It doesn't interfere with playing, and rotating one tie to move the knob enables slide removal for cleaning or draining.

@trumpetlearner

I think the most common solution is to wrap a hair "scrunchie" between the second valve slide and the third valve slide finger ring, at least while the horn is sitting vertically on a stand. It can be extended to the first valve slide as well for travel. Other solutions include strings or shoe laces. Do not use bare rubber, as it will trash your silver.

@bobmiller1969
Wow, beautiful. I feel the desire to refurb my Radial now.

I don't know. I thought he was in Utah, turns out he is in Texas. So I guess I'll never know.

I reached out to this man (he speaks Spanish) about these trumpets for sale. The only one which interests me is the silver-plated horn in the middle. He told me that it's a "Coon" [sic] -- obviously it's a Conn, but I am keen to know which model. It looks fairly nice and if he only wants $150 could be a steal.

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