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A maker by very definition makes the thing they are maker of. The question really asks, "are there any trumpets where all of their parts are made and assembled in-house?"

@Shifty said in Monetization of/for TrumpetBoards:

@Kehaulani said in Monetization of/for TrumpetBoards:

Guys, no offense intended, but I think this forum has to elevate itself a little bit above just jokes and pretty pictures before it would be taken seriously enough to justify outside financial support.

At the moment, we're just a bunch of happy campers who've found a replacement for our beloved TM (RIP). So none of us is asking how to blow double C's in a week or if a new mouthpiece is the solution to our woes (since we have none, or at least few). It will take time for new folks who do have questions or want to discuss serious issues to find us -- it would help if a Google search for "Trumpet forums" would point to TB. At this point we don't appear in the search results at all.

Yeah. Can't do a whole lot about that yet.

Kehaulani is correct. Realize that trumpetherald doesn't even do this. They have ~40,000 registered users. We have 165. There isn't really a market here, I'm afraid.

@Shifty it does, but minimally. I'll create a Patreon account. If we get enough donates I can even cut the ads altogether. Doesn't need to make a profit. Just needs to cover the server costs.

There might be a way. I will look into options.

Condolences for your loss. At least you are back. I don't make money on this site (right now I actually am losing a small amount) but I try to keep it running for the community. We'll keep on growing with your help.

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

Also from the airwaves:

"I went to the Air and Space Museum, but there was nothing inside."

Aw, shucks. I suppose you should have learned some English first.

Sanka? You dead?

Interesting! I can't read French, however, but I can tell that it looks like fun!

What is a "super star?" I have never heard of this.

@Kehaulani said in A little humour:

@N1684T said in A little humour:

Certainly attitudes got worse after they became federalized.

When was the Transportation Security Administration not federal?

It used to be Feral.

@ACB said in Check out this 1933 Selmer Balanced Model trumpet!:

@administrator we can't disclose just yet but the best answer is not exactly... we have options now even though Anderson stopped.

I ask because I love my Radial, however, it is in serious need of a restoration. Especially the valves

I really want to visit Tonga. I have heard nothing but good things about their culture! But boy.. talk about humidity.

@Kehaulani said in A little humour:

I don't know what this has with "Humor", but since we're on the subject of TSA - in my travels, I've been met with both horrible conditions and people, and easy ones. To me, it generally had to do with location. I.e., TSA in New York as abdominal and rude while TSA in Honolulu was fine.

That seems to be representative of the general populations in those places.

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@administrator said in A little humour:

I don't know I just think that giving the response of "I'm feeling suicidal today," to the cashier's question "How are you?" Just doesn't seem quite right.

Especially when embarking on an airline flight.........

The only thing the TSA encourages is misery!

Boy, I hate to say it, but this is disgusting. Maynard was such a monster of a player, but he really did not always take on the "tastiest" projects.

Here is a fascinating subject. If you watch the video below starting at 21:14, they discuss fitness loss and regaining, and how new science supports the idea that it is actually much easier to rebuild fitness after a period away from exercise than it is to build it in the first place. Essentially, the nuclei of muscle cells do not die as you lose fitness. This seems rather interesting for a brass musician, too. It seems to me like it would be much easier to regain strength than to develop it the first time. I have seen this to be true, as I am a repeat comeback player, and can usually regain the majority of my strength within a month of starting a new routine. Whereas, it took me years as a kid to get to that point in the first place.

So, should I ideally go to bed at 10?

Wow! Thanks for the great response.

I'm no doctor. Now, Arnold Schwarzenegger has a saying, and it goes like this. He says there is too much to do in life, and so, we should be sleeping 6 hours a night. If you need more sleep, you should sleep faster! What in the world does that mean? It sounds an awful lot like alpha-Male-style motivation, sort of what a weightlifter might tell himself every morning (any surprise then of the source.)