@harry ALLORA is a better value at $425 new. People are importing and inspecting great flugelhorns under myriad brands. Not really making them.

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Ironically, MILES AHEAD album is the only time Miles Davis professionally played a flugelhorn!

@barliman2001 Exactly, I have understood it the same way, that it is a "pro trumpet" and that the higher the number, the better and more expensive. I think Yamaha should have 8000 and 9000 models too, but just like you, I don't know much about Yamahas. Thanks for the help anyway.

I didn't watch it. I was too busy watching the paint dry in my apartment. 😁

@administrator It's always on the first full weekend of July - see you then.

@barliman2001 That is why we have alternate fingerings...

@Anthony-Lenzo said in Student trumpet:

...I should not have sold it. But thinking back it went to a cute little boy whose dad wanted him to have a good trumpet. Now in retrospect I am happy for the little guy as I write this .It is a good trumpet why shouldn't he have it.

Sounds to me you have done a beginning trumpet player a good service. The trade off is you may have precluded your use of this horn to have been of some benefit to you.

Let me explain, I had an Olds Ambassador and bequeathed it to my brother that abused the heck out of it in marching band. He returned it to me decades later and I decided to refurbish it, perhaps for my own use, perhaps for resale. The refurbished horn when returned looked great but played even better than I ever remembered. I decided to keep it. It is now my third most played horn in my collection.

I take it with me on vacations as if it is stolen or lost, it is the least valuable horn in my collection (except for my Pocket Trumpet). It has served me well on many trips, business and vacation, and many travels when I was not needing to play professionally. So for this reason, I have kept it and am glad I have.

@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.

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… 🙂

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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