@administrator You coming? Splendid. Contact Nick Jones directly, will you? He is in charge of reserving accommodation - always the same 3* hotel in the centre of town, and all gigs are within easy walking distance. Most important is a good music stand - you can borrow one of mine if necessary - and a good music light: Some of the gigs are open air at night.

@administrator A bit over-restored, to my taste. By all means take out the dings and make it play-ready; but re-plating removes all the character of its age from the horn - especially as many horns of that period originally came in a matte finish.

@J-Jericho My mistake I thought the instrument came to you from a prior user.

Non the less your maintenance regime is excellent and proved its worth.

I do understand that breaking in a new horn can be problematic.

I do see however a great similarity with both of our methods of breaking in a problematic horn.

The method is always the same. Clean the valves clean the valve block lubricate the valves. Keep it clean keep it well lubricated.

Thanks for your concern. It sits on a shelf in the spare bedroom, and I’m not overly concerned about any health hazards or deterioration of the bugle itself. It’s probably 80 years old and still looks fine, I don’t handle it, and it will probably still be on the shelf for my daughter to dispose of when I’m gone… 🙂

@Newell-Post It's an old post, but am new to the BOARDS. If you have the YAMAHA Neo Eb cornet, why would you have needed another?

Some other thoughts: I play the 8320S cornet and find it the easiest to play in tune and in higher pitches with British recordings. I also have a Getzen Eterna Eb cornet, the one with a larger than life bell, and it sounds as big and round as anything I ever played. I just have trouble getting my pitch high enough for European standards even with short shank mp's, so I use the 8320S mainly. I also have an Eterna Eb trumpet that is solid, and a couple of YAMAHA Eb/D trumpets, but the YAMAHA 8320S get the job done in brass band.

The problems with ChatGPT have not even begun to surface.

Already it is being used to create literature.

The literature ChatGPT creates is mind numbing in its mediocrity.

I am put in mind of speech writers that teach students to use various tricks of speech that appear to be dynamic and yet they amount to a series of fireworks that carry the audience with them and yet they say nothing of substance.

These are the tricks that messers Adolph Hitler and Joseph Goebbles used with great effect to win over a population and take them into a place nobody should inhabit.

ChatGPT is a tool that is correct but it is a tool that sounds a death Nell to creativity.

It should be used as the tool it is and overseen and controlled by people who have knowledge experience and the capability of logical thinking.

I see the death of individualism in ChatGPT and the echoes of George Orwells 1984 in its potential.

Similar to 1984 newspeak I see a contraction of grammar and vocabulary in ChatGPT and the common belief of how wonderful ChatGPT is fills me with dread.

The modern idiom of AI pervades society such that only applications for work phrased in elementary forms are acceptable, only certain candidates are allowed to be employed, only certain phrases are allowed to be uttered, only certain thoughts are allowed to be held, only certain statements are allowed to be made.

Dumbing down of society is now at an end and the more pervasive and more serious dumbing up of society is being forced upon us.

I see factories selling via the internet, AI taking over all thinking, I see whole sectors of society being reduced to poverty.

The only work that people will be offered is hand work making things like garments and fishing rods or working the land.

We have taken a rural society with everyone living in poverty and through an industrial revolution made everyones lives better, living in riches.

And now through AI and computers we are set to take everyones jobs away from them by ending the reason to employ people.

What will the result be.

It holds nothing more than a return to a rural life with everyone living once more in poverty.

@administrator said in Vuvuzela:

Are these instruments made in Venevuvuzela?

Maracas, Venevuvuzela

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Still playing the Mercedes, and tired of the awkward 3rd slide ring assembly. I took the horn to Southeastern Musical Services and asked them to replace it with a fixed ring I had bought on eBay. About a week later I picked it up - old adjustable ring assembly removed, new ring soldered on, slide polished and relacquered, all for $50.

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For those wanting to join in on the first session in January, the First Sunday Jazz Jam is featuring Cincinnati's premier trumpet player, Mike Wade. I will be there (but has been moved to the 12th due to the snow storm coming through today) as well so bring your axe if you are nearby and get the chance to play with Mike:

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Maybe not New Years Eve, but close. If you are in Dayton and looking for a relaxing evening to recover from the New Years Eve Partying, come on by tomorrow evening in Dayton's Historic Arcade!
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@flugler Nice offer; but I want that special cornet and none else...

@Gendreauj Thank you for your input and kind help , Anthony

@barliman2001 said in Calicchio trumpets:

Several reasons come to mind...

Many professionals have been contracted as Signature Artists - they get paid (sometimes huge sums) to play on a certain manufacturer's horns, and endorse them. Their personal horns are then crafted to whatever specification they prefer. So it may well be that some professionals are playing Committee clones - we just don't know.

True enough. I had the tremendous honor to play a concert with Allen Vizzutti and during rehearsal in which I played my Committee, Allen came over to me to say he really admired that horn and until coming over to being a Yamaha sponsored musician, was playing the Committee.

Till Bronner and I also had the chance to play together and he too shared his admiration for the Committee. He is also a Yamaha sponsored musician.