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I still think we need a state named after a dog, like Mexico's Chihuahua.

Imagine, the state of Mastiff...

@Newell-Post said in Hello! Welcome to TB, who are you?:

@Rapier232 Great story, Rapier232. But when you do eventually get to come visit the USA, just remember that Texas isn't well, you know, quite representative of the whole country. Let's just say it that way. And, oh yeah, visit in the wintertime. Coming from London, you won't be acclimated to Texas summers. And, oh yeah #2, buy travel insurance and medical evacuation insurance. You don't want to get sick in Texas and try to get treated with NHS coverage.

I don't know, Texas is pretty darn big. I suspect they have just about every geographical feature that any other state has, except maybe 14k' peaks.

@Kehaulani said in Clean with 'alcohol'?:

I use Everclear. 95% Alcohol. I drink a big swig then play my horn. Kills everything in it.

Including brain cells.

I have never poured isopropyl alcohol down my instruments. I bet they'd stink for weeks!

I'm not a metallurgist, but I remember learning somewhere in my music school studies that brass does have certain anti-microbial properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_copper-alloy_touch_surfaces#:~:text=The surfaces of copper and,a high degree of efficiency.

Are they literally beating guns into trumpets, or selling the guns and using the money to purchase instruments?

I heard a story of a crocodile that lived in the Berlin Zoo during the Nazi Germany era. After the end of the war, somehow the Soviets ended up with the animal, which only recently died. It was considered the last "German POW."

The crocodile's name? Saturn. True story.

@grune said in Mouthpiece too large?:

@Newell-Post ... to your points... so true. Compared to prices of many violins, trumpets are 'disposables'. Even 'student' level violins can be +$100k. crazy.

https://tarisio.com/auctions/notable-sales/lady-blunt-stradivarius-of-1721/

Can't Monettes cost $30k+? I mean, that's not $100k, granted, but it is, at the end of the day, a brass pipe.

Anybody opposed if we just close the thread down?

What did I miss?

Trumpet-a-holic?

There's a reason his name is Nono.

@barliman2001 said in Wonder which Valve Oil they use.:

@administrator said in Wonder which Valve Oil they use.:

I'm curious about a few things.

1. How do we know they played with no vibrato in the Baroque era? I mean, we don't have recordings.
2. How do we know they ballooned their notes like they are doing in the video?

You are right, there are no recordings. But people wrote instead and closely described what was to be done. Almost every other musician of any note produced tutorials for his students: Friedrich Wilhelm Reiche, for example, could not just say, "Go and get yourself an Arban copy". For one, Arban would not be born for a couple of centuries; and for the second, printed books were still rare and expensive. So people like J.S. Bach produced things like the "Piano Book for Anna Magdalena Bach" which in their original version not only contained music, but lots of additional advice, thus showing us the way the composer wanted the pieces to be played.

That makes sense.

I'm curious about a few things.

1. How do we know they played with no vibrato in the Baroque era? I mean, we don't have recordings.
2. How do we know they ballooned their notes like they are doing in the video?

@Kehaulani said in Health Benefits of Classical Music:

So, if I listen to Berg's "Wozzeck" . .

You will slowly die a painful, watery death.

I feel like the "flat world" is more of a modern thing than anything else. Sort of like "I want to show everyone how different I am so I'm going to pick this silly non-issue to do so."

Hello, this board is for introducing yourself. Whether you are new, a long-time "backroom-lurker", or a regular user, you are welcome to use this board to introduce yourself and let us get acquainted with you.

Yes, it has been 100+ around here and my motivation seems to be inversely proportional to the temperature as of late.

@ROWUK said in Notes I wish were there!:

@administrator said in Notes I wish were there!:

R. Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie, Auf dem Gipfel concert no. 86:

How I wish Strauss had inserted a high E there. He expected his 3rd trumpet to play fortissimo G, C & D, surely it would not have been a stretch to insert a 1/2 note E. This bothers me every time I hear a recording of the piece!!

In German orchestras the 3rd trumpet is often a 3rd/assistant 1st trumpet position. The player would have been capable.
He therefore did not leave the E out because of the player not being able, he simply did not want that climax there. Just think about all of the attempts to get to the top of Mt. Everest. Strauss documenting not getting to the top (without death or a train wreck) is significant.

This makes sense.

However, the octave below and the next are there.

@Kehaulani said in A little humour:

This may be one of the reasons more people don't stay here. Non-musical, non-trumpet, not even not sticking to the topic of humour. Wait a minute, maybe it is.

I'm pretty sure people don't stick around because they go somewhere else!

Get it! Somewhere else!!.....ok