Boy, I love those engraved sterling silver bells!
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RE: Vintage Horn Eye Candy
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RE: Traits that make a great sight reader?
@rowuk said in Traits that make a great sight reader?:
There are various traits that make for good site reading.
- large collection of memorized patterns
- ability to negotiate the diagonal (end of one line to the beginning of the next)
- ability to βhearβ intervals (different than #1)
- well taken care of chops
- an organised approach before playing a note - key signatures and accidentals, natural feel for phrasing/breathing
- a lot of experience site reading
Hearing the intervals is the easy part. Making that instant connection to which note it is is much harder. Hearing harmonic changes is even harder than that.
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RE: Artist on BOARD
@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:
@J-Jericho said in Artist on BOARD:
Yes, there are many variations on abstract painting which succeed as art and not as garbage, but like any artistic endeavor, there is a whole range of competence and lack thereof. One would not look at abstraction, however slight, and declare it to be photographic, but to be offended at such a compliment reveals a lack of character and ability IMO. A lot of art consists of sycophants stroking fragile egos over what, from any rational perspective, is crap, not art.
To a great extent I agree with you. I go back and forth with what the world has accepted as Art today. A cleaning person collected one display and threw it in the trash, quite innocently too. This cleaning person was the only honest person employed by the museum. Everyone else pretended it was art.
A huge rock is on display in some museum in LA.
Not doin' it for me.Rock, museum, LA. I get it.
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RE: Seeking input on Rules
I want to be perfectly clear. I started this forum as an idea to replace a defunct forum that many of us used to visit.
I don't make much, if any, money off this site. I just disabled the ads, but trust me they didn't earn much in the first place.
If I ended this endeavor it would not harm my life in any way. Perhaps I made an error; I was trying to do what I thought was right. I admit fault in this.
The canker of contention, pride and division is everywhere right now. Maybe we all just need a break from the damn internet for a while.
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RE: First Horns
The Selmer Radial, which I still own, was my first instrument. I very much like this trumpet.
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I started a Youtube channel...
Not specifically trumpet related, but I hope you enjoy my first video.
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RE: What Is A Good Practice Routine?
A good practice routine is one you keep up with, daily!
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RE: A bittersweet parting
I lived out there once. Payette is a nice little town. I'm sure that great piece of history will get good use.
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RE: How many of you taught yourself to play?
I think that a good teacher teaches you how to learn, or in other words, they teach you how to teach yourself.
Nonetheless, for the purposes of this discussion, I am not a self-taught trumpeter. I have had several quality teachers.
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RE: Newby - Need help identifying a Conn Trumpet
Not the topic, I realize, but those are all fine looking horns. Somebody took care of them.
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RE: How is this possible?
The ties have the effect of keeping a phrase together, while the dots mean the notes are still separated.
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RE: PLEASE KEEP CIVIL!
@J-Jericho said in PLEASE KEEP CIVIL!:
@administrator No humor allowed!! You've derailed this thread!! Shame on you!!
Ooops. My mistake.
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RE: Martin Committee Club
@tjcombo said in Martin Committee Club:
I joined the Committee club during lockdown about a year back with this beauty. It was a roll-of-the-dice purchase. A couple of patches of missing lacquer made it look a bit suss. At the price - USD1600, I thought it might be worth throwing some money at it for repairs.
It arrived in its original case which is currently being restored. Turns out to be straight as a die, very little wear on the valves and fits me like a glove. Itβs been my daily player since it arrived and has just come back from a chemical clean and valve alignment.
It was made in my year of birth which makes it even more special to me.What year / bore size? I think you got a great deal.
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RE: Bots are getting scary
There are a lot pitfalls with AI, but mostly, there are just a lot of unknowns. It's new territory. "Artificial Intelligence" is not actually intelligence. It's just programming. The thing I have learned about computers, being a programmer myself, is that they do EXACTLY what you tell them to do. The problem is knowing what you are actually telling them to do, that's where bugs come from. It is extremely hard to account for every possible variable that could arise, and program behavior becomes wildly unpredictable when unaccounted-for variables are thrown into the mix. This is partly why I'm not looking forward to "self-driving" cars.