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Yeah, I don't know what happened. We had a massive storm and all the power was lost for 4 hours. I just got the site back up.

@tjcombo said in Guilty Pleasure Listening:

@administrator you know a band is really successful when it's tribute bands become an industry. We have two such acts in Australia - BABBA and Bjorn Again (great name!). The latter has become a franchise with several iterations touring in better times. Both put on a great show, sending up themselves and the wonderful silliness of tribute bands.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bjorn+again&rlz=1CDGOYI_enAU745AU745&oq=bjorn+ag&aqs=chrome.0.0i457j69i57j0l4.7839j0j4&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

That makes me think of the entire industry of Elvis impersonators in Las Vegas.

@tjcombo said in Guilty Pleasure Listening:

ABBA would be my guilty pleasure, if I felt guilty about enjoying music for the masses. I love the lush, often complex arrangements, naively simple lyrics written by non-native English speakers and over-use of video FX which were pretty fancy at the time.

When I was a kid, there was a group called "The A-Teens" that did Abba remakes. I really liked them.

What's a "guilty pleasure" piece for you? Sometimes I get Herb Alpert in my head!

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@tobylou8 It should be fixed now.

@tobylou8 I noticed that too. There seems to be a number of visual bugs that I will have to work through.

I am aware of a bug that has recently appeared where the mobile menu does not work properly. I am working on fixing this, it may take a few days. Thank you to those who helped make me aware of this issue.

What did you answer for "eliminate this instrument" question? I chose the flute, but it was a toss-up between that and the triangle.

I came out as "choleric," which, other than sounding a whole lot like the dread disease "cholera" does a good job of describing my personality.

I had to look that one up on the map.

Probably start a new thread in that category.

Very cool. Where are you located?

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.

At the bottom of the homepage, I created a new category called "TrumpetMaster Archives." If you use the Wayback machine (https://archive.org/web/web.php), you can peruse TrumpetMaster before it crashed and post some useful content that existed there.

Except that Beethoven was a musician before he became deaf...

Oh, I get it. "But did he listen?" --- that's a good one!

Used to play in a BBB and the principal cornet had a Lawler. It was a beautiful instrument.

Hardenberger talks about this too. I can't remember where, however.

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@Gendreauj said in Jupiter 520m Shephards crook cornet:

Sold the Jupiter 520 M cornet on ebay. Buyer got an excellent price for a quality cornet. Learned my lesson. When I purchased this cornet, didn't think about resale value.

Good point.

@Dr-GO said in Just Another "New" Discovery:

@administrator said in Just Another "New" Discovery:

@GeorgeB said in Just Another "New" Discovery:
This reminds me of the rendition Chris Botti recorded.

So I played the two versions back to back, and had to pause every 12 bars or so on Chris Botti's version as he played a slightly faster tempo. One thing stood out so much more than the other (except for Blue Mitchell smoking a cigarette), was Chris plays behind the beat in many of his phrasings. That does change to feel a bet between the two.

Yes, they are very different. Botti's is almost like "Kenny G" style. More pop I suppose.