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@georgeb said in Things to Come:

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Yeah, Doc, and I'd love to see and hear them all but the admission price...well...

And again, my trumpet teacher for 18 of the months when I lived in NYC was a prior alumnus of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Claudio Roditi. The price Claudio charged me for an hour lesson... $20.00. Yes, my, how times have changed.

I think I posted this https://harderbop.blogspot.com/2011/04/james-carter-ruined-my-life.html on TM. It seems relevant to this discussion.

@rowuk said in Is this a Buescher?:

@j-jericho Yes, there are means to go around blocked sites. The problem is that the "free" VPNs are serious security risks. Even although I use a Mac with all of the proper security tools, after using one of those VPNs, strange porn sites can pop up in the browser.

Good point; that's why I said "... a good VPN or proxy server...". I use Norton's paid VPN. Someone who should know told me that their free VPN isn't worth the price, and neither are any of the other free ones.

@j-jericho said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@bigdub said

It did not work. There were no disruptions as promised.

FWIW - The next time I went to the TB website after liking your comment, I encountered Server Error. 🤨

I never made the disclaimer

@dale-proctor said in Funny story that's sort of trumpet related...:

I sat next to John Williams in a trumpet section years ago. No, not that John Williams…lol

A few years before Brassed Off, my concert band had the honour of playing a set directly after Grimethorpe had given an absolutely spellbinding, vituoso performance of the Lohengrin Prelude.

So I duly settled into the chair just vacated by THE Alan Morrison :

... and launched into Girl from Ipanema.

And that, my dear friends, is the very definition of the phrase 'from the sublime to the ridiculous'.

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A very touching and a very sad story as well.

@dale-proctor Looks like it was definitely the photo. The engraving looks great in this one. Beautiful! -Bob

SOLD - 9/8/21

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A) It is nothing like a didgeridoo - which, in fact, is just a wooden tube hollowed out by termites, without a proper mouthpiece (the end of the tube is rounded off for comfort)
b) Technically, it is a cornet (because of the conical shape of the bore).
And, to finish off, it is a Tibetan temple trumpet, the use of which is now prohibited due to Chinese rule in Tibet. Any such trumpets seized are sold off to collectors in the West...

@coolerdave said in Latest Steal:

My first Bach was a 43* my graduation present.. probably 1973 ... didn't know they made different models when I bought it... some guy at Sam Ash brought me in a room with 20 Bachs.. said find the one you like. Nice find!

Coolerdave, great to have you here!

I've had my fill of Cs... I started off with a Bach C/Bb combo which was out of tune as a Bb and even more out of tune as a C. It only started working when I added an A and even an Ab slide... Fortunately, a friend of mine borrowed it for a theatre job and managed to get it stolen. The insurance paid up ande that pqaid for a Bach rotary C. Nice horn, but not universally useable and rather a hard blow. I had a couple of Besson Mehas afterwards - the Bbs are good, on the verge of fantastic, but the Cs are quirky and extremely mouthpiece sensitive. I then went for a Couesnon C/Bb combo: Easy for the C, with a nice sound, but almost a peashooter on Bb. Anything below the stave is sharp. Another C rotary crossed my path when a friend asked me to advise him as to a rotary C with all the trimmings, NOT a Lechner (he had a colleague who always flaunted his gold-plated Lechner), with a budget of $ 6,000. I had Votruba of Vienna build him a gold-plated, three Vienna keys rotary C, with four different leadpipes - the works - and supervised the build for him. It turned out "the best C I ever played, and it easily outplays the Lechner", at a final price tag of $ 5,400 including shipping. resulting in the other guy selling his Lechner and ordering another Votruba... Another friend of mine has an Inderbinen Alpha C - costly, but not for me. and recently I came upon a Gaudet C. Thiw was the "second choice" brand of Antoine Courtois, horns that had some kind of optical glitch like missed bits of lacquering or an unaligned water key - things like that. The valve block is correctly stamped "Courtois". And that has been m go-to C for the last five years. Nice, mellow tone, yet caqn strip paint if you want to do so; perfectly in tune; and an easy, precise blow. One of the few horns that will only come on the market if you shoot me first - But I've always been a fast draw...

Loved it. Other players with similar talent are Pete Rodriguez and Michael Rodriguez (actually not related).

Jason Harrelson must agree as well as I heard he uses CarolBrass valve blocks for his horns. Love my Harrelson, and love the valve block!

The Moog Synthesizer has a key hook up to patch an mic through the Synthesizer. I use a standard Sure Microphone as whey you are having wave forms created from the original trumpet input, I do not think the mic choice would be much of a variable (at least on a synthesizer).

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@dr-go said in Any organists?:

@administrator said in Any organists?:

My Allen ADC-420 arrives tomorrow so I am very excited.

Gotta show us the pics when it arrives.

For sure!!

I want to play like this. It's so moving.
Youtube Video – [20:27..]

With such little detail, you'll never know without better pictures. If he only speaks Spanish and is in Texas, he's not playing a 38B. That middle trumpet clearly has 2 braces on the tuning slide and that is not a Conn characteristic on their horns, at least the vintage horns! BEWARE!!! It could be a conn job!!