Martin Committee Club

barliman2001

@LaTrompeta (sadly?) my only test blow of a Committee left me cold. I know that it's not a good idea to judge a horn by a short blow of one example, but my favourite horns all had something to like from the first tootle. Unfortunately the prices of even "renovator's delight" Committees now makes it unlikely that I'll get to live with one for long enough to try again.

I have no experience of Committees - but I second that view that a horn should say "I want you" at the first blow. I just had that experience with a Courtois Balanced (1956 vintage). It went straight to my heart. And more than once now I've had a pure Courtois gig bag - the Bb Balanced, the C and the flugel... The Balanced has good valves, but is in questionable shape as to optics - the previous owner obviously loved it and played it for many, many years. And as soon as all the New Year and ball season gigs are over, the Courtois will have a short holiday with Votruba's for a full refit including replating. It's only the second of my horns that deserves that.

tjveloce

@barliman2001

I agree....and there's just something about vintage horns, including the fact that they have so much character and mana from their previous lives. But I like lots of vintage things.

-tj

barliman2001

@tjveloce said in Martin Committee Club:

@barliman2001

I agree....and there's just something about vintage horns, including the fact that they have so much character and mana from their previous lives. But I like lots of vintage things.

-tj

I know that feeling... we even designed our new house so that our vintage furniture would fit. The builders declared we were simply mad. "You build the house, and then you buy the furniture!" they said. But we drew plans, and re-drew the plans, and re-drew the re-drawn plans until every piece of furniture fitted as if it had always been there.

tjveloce

@barliman2001

That's super cool! What style of architecture is your home? We live in a Craftsman that was built using the Gamble House in Pasadena as inspiration. I love Craftsman aesthetic but also really love Spanish Villa and Mid-Century Modern.

-tj

barliman2001

@tjveloce
Our house is in an estate called "Jungle Village" near a backwater of the Danube. In fact, we are "beyond the pale" as the whole village is outside the flood protection dykes and liable to be under water whenever the Danube rises exceptionally high. So we put the ground floor on 8ft concrete stilts and raised a timberframe house on that platform. Main family room with open rafters - just like yours! - a wood-burning stove, and two prepared stilts for adding a 9ft by 27 ft balcony... which will be built in January. Our garden snuggles directly on the dyke, so no one can build into our view of the Vienna Woods, From the previous owners, we inherited lots of fruit trees - cherries, apples, pears, plums (two kinds) and quince, and a vine. No pictures yet, but there will be. If you want me to send you some, just send me an e-mail address via chat.

tjveloce

@barliman2001 Wow...that's impressive. So you live in Austria? We're the opposite of you as we're at 1900 feet and our biggest natural disaster threat is from wildfires.

-tj

Dr GO

Cape Cod for me:

Dr GO

More contemporary look for the back of the house:

Dr GO

@tjveloce said in Martin Committee Club:

@barliman2001

That's super cool! What style of architecture is your home? We live in a Craftsman that was built using the Gamble House in Pasadena as inspiration. I love Craftsman aesthetic but also really love Spanish Villa and Mid-Century Modern.

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-tj

Tj... Also have the Fire Pit vibe going as well. Love to sit back in the Adirondack chairs with my Harmon muted Committee and duplicate the smoke in sound that comes from the pit in a cloud:

barliman2001

@tjveloce
We're near Vienna - altitude somewhere around 400 feet, less than five minutes walk from the Danube backwater, with a wooded peninsula as our favourite dogwalk... lots of wildlife, including beavers... and yet we can be in downtown Vienna within 30 minutes. The "estate" is so rural there is no street lighting, and all the public services are managed by the Residents' Club. We've been selected as one of the first locations in Austria to be self-reliant as to energy, with solar panels and wind turbines discreetly all over the place...

Kehaulani

@barliman2001 said in Martin Committee Club:

. . . we inherited lots of fruit trees - cherries, apples, pears, plums (two kinds) and quince, and a vine.

Sounds like a receipe for Obstler. Yum.

OldSchoolEuph

@tjveloce Wow- that house is amazing. Any more interior pics (trying to steal your plans ...)?

barliman2001

@Kehaulani said in Martin Committee Club:

@barliman2001 said in Martin Committee Club:

. . . we inherited lots of fruit trees - cherries, apples, pears, plums (two kinds) and quince, and a vine.

Sounds like a receipe for Obstler. Yum.

Well, it regularly lands us with tons of home-made jam.

tjveloce

@OldSchoolEuph said in Martin Committee Club:

@tjveloce Wow- that house is amazing. Any more interior pics (trying to steal your plans ...)?

Thanks OS Euph...we are blessed to call this place home. This is probably the easiest way to share photos of the home and property.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/21854-Bear-Creek-Rd-Los-Gatos-CA-95033/16160474_zpid/

-tj

Dr GO

@tjveloce said in Martin Committee Club:
Thanks OS Euph...we are blessed to call this place home. This is probably the easiest way to share photos of the home and property.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/21854-Bear-Creek-Rd-Los-Gatos-CA-95033/16160474_zpid/

-tj

tj! What a GREAT PLACE to come home to. Can you adopt me as your son? Please!

Dr GO

@tjveloce said in Martin Committee Club:
...share photos of the home and property.

-tj

This room DEFINITELY says TRUMPET PLAYER lives here. Trumpet on the floor next to the piano to transcribe those trumpet parts... And Miles on the wall... That says it all tj-Committee Club Member extraordinaire!

Kehaulani

It also says the owner didn't go into music.

Kujo20

Everybody is of course free to share personal details of their lives...but I would personally caution against sharing full home addresses (especially with pictures) online.

flugelgirl

Wow, those are definitely not homes paid for as musicians! We are fortunate that we’ve saved and planned well, and bought and sold houses at most of our duty stations. In our area south of Seattle that gets us a Nice 1980 ranch In an affordable price range. The same size 50s ranch in SoCal cost us about $50k less, and our 50s Cape Cod in Norfolk about $100k less. New homes in developments near us start at $500k, while similar homes in Woodinville near my work start at 1.1mil. Our house would be worth at least twice it’s current value if it were in that area with no other changes to house or lot! This isn’t the most affordable place to live, but it sure does feel like home. We could have bought a house with cash in my hometown area and still have had plenty of savings, but what an awful place for musicians to live! It’s all about happiness in the end.

Kehaulani

Where I'm from, we sell land by the square foot.