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@Dale-Proctor said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
Hey.....if it works, it works!
I'm really sorry, I have to suspend new user accounts for a couple of days while I deal with the overwhelming amount of Vietnamese online gambling spam. Ugh 
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Wow, beautiful. I feel the desire to refurb my Radial now.
I really love those brushed Adams flugels. They play in tune, as well, which is a real feat for a Flugelhorn.
I once owned a Willson (Conn) flugelhorn. It had a lovely tone but the pitch was monstrous. I ended up gluing (!) a stick with a penny on the end of it and a giant spring to create a trigger for the 3rd valve.
Did I commit a felony gluing a penny to my Flugelhorn? 
I have no idea how I found this, but I really enjoyed it.
Vibrato should be something we are always aware of in our playing. When we become aware, we gain control.
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@georgeb said in AR Resonance Mouthpieces:
They sure are purty...
That's word-for-word what I was thinking! I love the design. So....these are NOT related to Adam Rapa in anyway, correct?
At that price you can just throw it away and replace it anyway...isn't that the society we live in already?
@J-Jericho said in What happened to Jazz programming?:
To my ear most contemporary music is either a mind-numbing repetitive mantra of a standard rhythm and a prescribed minimum number of the same notes in the same prescribed key, always and exclusively sung by young males whose high voices have not changed into manhood or a Scrabble of notes sung in an endless, random journey to nowhere by a female with almost no overtones in the timbre of her coarse, lifeless voice. It baffles me that there seems to be an endless market for this crap.
That was a very entertaining sentence to read!
Welcome. I think you'll find it a fulfilling journey. Trumpet is an easy instrument to play, incredibly difficult to master. A private teacher will definitely help you, but once you get to the point where you can make some decent sounds it gets to be very fun and exciting.
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@flugelgirl said in AR Resonance Mouthpieces:
@administrator Better to get used to the new horn with your current mpc and see how you like the combination. If you don’t, worry about that later. Changing up both at once might be more than you really want to deal with.
Yep. I'm just playing around right now. I haven't played in 7 years so....it's fun for me!
I played in a British-style Brass Band for a couple of years. Our principal cornet was even a Brit, so that makes it somewhat legit, right?
Here's an interesting fact I learned. Here in Utah, there used to a plethora of brass bands. In the 19th century, many Mormon emigrants came from Europe to the "Deseret Territory" (now Utah), and settled north, west, east and south. One of the cultural traditions they brought with them was the brass band. I understand it was more of a tradition across the country in those days anyway, seeing as brass bands were an important part of morale-boosting in the Civil War.
Here is a photo of a ladies' band. Pretty neat. No such thing exists now. We still have the Tabernacle Choir, but only one brass band remains in the state, and that was started by a modern-day, British emigrant. Kind of sad to see that this tradition no longer exists.
@GeorgeB said in Just Another "New" Discovery:
When I Fall In Love is one of my favorite ballads and wish I could play it as well as Blue Mitchell does :
This reminds me of the rendition Chris Botti recorded.
