Vintage Bach Club

I love trying new foods. That menu is quite delicious sounding to me.

You gotta eat whatever the local environment produces, I guess. I keep hearing something about cats and dogs...

I think you need more water.

Sorry to hear about your bad experience. Hopefully, if there is any silver lining, other people will read this and not fall for the scam.

By all means, please do find a good trumpet teacher. But let me warn you -- they should NOT cost you $6000, and especially not upfront.

I had a lesson with a world-renowned trumpet teacher and this individual charged me $150 for an hour. It was very informative and worth the cost and probably more. That being said, if I had one lesson per week with this individual (world-class, mind you) over the course of, say 50 weeks (1 year approx.), it would cost $7500. So, you see, yes, it can add up. However, this would be in-person, intensive professional preparation with the best instructor out there. So, unless you are finding that individual, please don't pay that kind of money.

Wow, that's really bad. I heard about this in the news, but it's been downplayed after the latest presidential assassination attempt.

Is it beginning to recede?

@Vulgano-Brother said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

A very attentive student!

Welcome, thanks for joining.

@barliman2001 I have been there and after 4 years, am almost back to where I was before. In my case, an accident knocked the 4 front jaw teeth loose beyond repair. In addition, that started a chain reaction that ultimately resulted in me losing all of my teeth. There seems to be bacteria in the mouth just waiting for trauma.
Dentures were the first step and I learned all about dental cremes and other methods to "glue" them in. I learned that a cup of hot coffee dissolved those dental adhesives, so my diet changed during that time too. As the dentures were pretty much the same as the teeth preceding them, my playing was stable. After the gums all healed (6 months), implants were the solution. After that, the geometry of the mouth changed only by microns, but it still was a very dramatic change and it took a year to get back on track. Fortunately, that was during the Covid pandemic so I did not disappoint any of the people that book me.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Not sure what's going on here, I haven't been following the thread, but maybe we should turn the temps down a couple of notches.

@Dale-Proctor said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

Hey.....if it works, it works!