@tjveloce said in The new Martin Committee "thread" from a TM emigrant:

@Dr-GO Ah! So was it too loose? If so, then what he did was knurl it, which raises the surface just a bit. Engine builders do this to pistons sometime to help them retain oil on the skirts.

-tj

Yes. Too loose. Glad you could interpret what Gary did to it by the picture. It now fits snug and works great!

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I know Jeff and have played at a few venues he was also performing at. He is a tremendous player on historic instruments, as well as a great jazz player. He knows me by my real name, though, not as Bob Pixley...lol

@kehaulani said in AR Resonance Mouthpieces:

Ref, Jet Tones, there re the originals, then the Ratzenberger "originals", then the more modern ones.

Going backwards, the modern ones, as stated, are not like the originals. The Ratzenbergers, which are sought after, are actually not true "originals". Ratzenberger was a night club guy who was part owner in Jet Tone. The other guy was the true designer and after he broke up with Ratzenberger, Ratzenberger did a half-assed job with subsequent Jet Tones.

Legend Mouthpieces offer "original;" original Jet Tone replicas (unless you, like the good Dr. get one custom made).

p.s. George, do you use yours for combo playing or just for lead?

Kehaulani, I have never used AR mouthieces. I currently use an ACB TA1 for most of my playing but switch to a shallow cup Denis Wick 5X when playing a lot of higfher range band material. The 5X is way too small (16.00 ) for any kind of jazz or ballad solos, but I love how easy the 5X is on my chops and would love to use it for everything so I have a larger 16.50 Denis Wick 4X on order. We will see how that works.
George

Amazing how fast things go sideways when a troll gets involved! I also agree it’s a valuable discussion and should be open again.

@Kehaulani not sure, but it made it interesting again.

Damn! I concede;)

@Dr-GO said in Set lists:

@Dr-Mark said in Set lists:

Hi Dr-GO
..."If you play a wrong note or passage, do it twice. That way the audience will think it was intentional and you were just being
avant-garde"

That's EXACTLY what I do! That's EXACTLY what I do!

And then you write it twice, too, also.

@N1684T said in What Does The Tongue Do When The Trumpet Is Played:

Light em up Dr Mark;)

There's few things that are as satisfying and addicting as Punch cigars. I use to smoke them like they were going out of business and one day realized I needed to quit. I've not had one between my lips in decades but as I write these words, I'm reminded just how wonderful they are. Yep, there just a little addicting. I can control most things. Punch cigars are not one of them.

Hi George,

Thanks... I agree too. I plan on playing around on the 10.75CW for a while and see. One thing I found out right away... DO NOT mash the MP into your lips! DO NOT play with heavy pressure! You hardly will get any note out of the trumpet! It's an interesting type of MP where you need a light touch.

Anyway, I hope this is allowed on TB, but I also wrote over on TH and another player over on that forum asked about my dental work, issues, and how it affected my playing. So, I figured I'd share the whole conversation over here (cut 'n paste), in case anyone wanted to know. In a nutshell: Ice hockey and trumpet playing don't mix! ha ha ha...

Hey Butch,

How have the dental issues affected playing? Did the playing cause the dental issues or did you have dental issues and now need to find a new way to play?

Well... It's a long story... Back when I was stationed in Boston, MA during my USCG days, a few buddies and I would go out and play amateur ice hockey off base after hours -- just common "pick up games" with assorted people who wanted to play too. Anyway, I played right wing and remember Marty (defense) passing the puck up to me along the boards. I just remember skating as fast as I could while looking ahead to the left to Billy (center) to pass the puck to him to try and score a goal. But, I wasn't watching where I was going and crashed head-on into the defenseman on the other team. We both fell onto the ice, and out of sheer dumb luck, I landed on his hockey stick with my face. I don't remember much, but just laying there face down on the ice in a pool of blood and teeth. Yup, I lost all my front teeth from eye tooth to eye tooth, even busting an eye tooth in half, and partially fracturing my nose. They shoved a towel in my face, and got me to the hospital for x-rays. Long story short - they got me all cleaned up, and fixed me up with front partial, then later they made a permanent front bridge. All these decades later, due to age or whatever, the front bridge broke in two while I was eating something hard (I can't remember, maybe a Jolly Rancher or something), and I heard a loud ka-bang in my mouth, and both sections of the bridge were loose! Well, here we go again... A few years ago, the oral surgeons, endodontists, etc... said, "Uh, sorry, the time has come... You have to take the plunge and get an upper denture plate". So, to close out this long winded story, they did all the work in various stages, and after molds and impressions, they made me a complete upper denture plate. It took me quite a while to relearn trumpet, rework my embouchure, etc... and it's a true miracle that I can still play!

I had a few lessons from a real good friend and fellow Shriner (who also plays Euphonium with the Richmond Pops) and on the side, he gives private music lessons to school band students. Well, he worked with me on my embouchure, and taught me how to make a "frown" and use my diaphragm more. It made a world of difference, and I can pretty much play up to the high "C" and no more with very little pressure on the MP.

Endurance is the main thing that I am after. I need comfort, along with the ability to play song after song after song for 45 minutes straight before a break.

@J-Jericho said in SEASON'S GREETINGS:

@ButchA Methinks you're not a stranger to electric guitar. World class licks there, my friend!

Thank you... Yes, I picked up a guitar the same time I picked up trumpet. Probably for the past 50 years, both have competed for my attention.

Funny thing with the guitar (true story!) --- My sister Ginny had an old nylon string acoustic guitar in her room. I used to sneak into her room and doodle around on her guitar, trying to figure it out (no lessons, no knowledge). But one day my older sister Sue was blaring an old Cream album on her record player in her room. I heard the opening notes to "Sunshine Of Your Love", and somehow, someway, I figured out what Eric Clapton was playing on Ginny's nylon string guitar. Just then, she caught me red-handed, in her room, playing her guitar, and playing along with Eric Clapton's guitar lick -- without ever taking a lesson! I just remember her yelling at me, yanking her guitar out of my hands, smacking the {expletive} out of me, as she chased me out of her room! 😨
...my parents soon bought me my own acoustic guitar, and the rest is history!

@GeorgeB said in SEASON'S GREETINGS:

He's pretty damn good on the violin, too.

Thank you! I will never be as good as my grandmother - she was a concert violinist in New York City back in 1914, 1915, and her violin is not only over 100 years old - it is priceless to me!

@Gendreauj
Sold the Getzen Renaissance trumpet on ebay. Luckily I had two late bidders. Very happy with the bids.
My Denis Wick Heavytop silver-plated trumpet mouthpieces are sold.
Waiting on the Jupiter 520 M cornet to sell.