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@barliman2001
Pistoia, 2022

With the Vienna Klezmer Orchestra in Lviv/Ukraine

Playing Repiano Cornet with the Vienna Boy Scouts' Band

Playing a large-scale ball in Munich, with my main big band (www.bbmf.de)

A viola player wants to escape his instrument and all its results, so he decides to learn some new instruments... goes into the music shop, looks around and says,
"I want that long harp, the red trumpet and the accordion." -
"You a viola player?" - "Yes, why?" -
"You can have the hatstand and the fire extinguisher, but the radiator stays!"

Apart from regular products, it might be interesting to research into what people use in emergencies if they don't have the right product available... I once saw an oompah band player whose valves began sticking unscrew all the valves, pour about half a pint of beer into the valve casings, reassemble and continue...

LOCKED, AT DR. GO'S REQUEST.

@Kehaulani Good for you. But now keep up the good work, or she'll fall back into it worse than before.

Ok, the tone of the discussion is getting more and more acid. I am closing this thread before bad language and undesirable arguments creep in.

Thanks for continuing this topic. But please consider that graduate schools are a phenomenon of the USA only. I would like to ask those members who have non-USA experience in this field to contribure.

The A slides can come in handy, though... I once had to play an Easter Sunday gig in church... Mozart Organ Solo Mass (trumpet in C). What the conductor had not mentioned was that for Holy Communion, the choir and orchestra were to perform the Haec Dies by Caspar Ett, which asks for a trumpet in A... Luckily, I never go to gigs without some extra hardware "for emergencies". Usually, when using the C, this emergency hooter is a 1920s Buescher with a Bb-to-A switch valve... one turn of the screw, and Caspar Ett was performed by the trumpet asked for.

@Dr-GO Over here in Austria, Easter services tend to be a) Catholic and b) orchestral masses. For this coming Easter Sunday, I'm booked into St. Peter's in Vienna for Schubert Mass No. 3 in Bb, St. Mary Magdalene for Mozart Organ Solo, and for Easter Monday it's Otto Nicolai Mass in D, with Caspar Ett's Haec Dies" thrown in for good measure (which is for trumpet in Ab!!)

@kehaulani-0 Exactly. And that in rapid succession!

@administrator
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...

@Mike-Ansberry Try trombonechat.com...

And one more bit of info:
http://www.buescherloyalist.com/serial.html
This list puts it between 1930 and 1931

@BigDub I once had a spate of piccs... starting off with an old Selmer, then changing to a Besson Kanstul, then adding a Stomvi Elite, then a Votruba Pro... another, younger Selmer... and then I happened upon a Scherzer high G. And that one very soon told me that for me and my kind of playing, A/Bb picc was simply wasted effort. All the Baroque pieces that I was playing on A picc suddenly became much more manageable when I switched to the Scherzer high G... no more sharps anywhere... and then I got my claws on an old Selmer high G out of the estate of Maurice André... and that was one revelation. It beat the Scherzer and all the other piccs by such a margin that I sold every single one of them.

Following an old tradition, scratch brass band CORONATION BRASS will be performing at the annual European Folklore Festival in the brewery town of Bitburg, Germany. It's a varied, four day festival with everything from Georgian youth dance groups to Dutch jazz bands, from the dance group of a Swedish old peoples' home (the youngest performer is 85!) to local oompah bands and the pipe band (German Dudelsackgruppe from a place fittingl called Dudeldorf)... A few TM and TB members have already played with Coronation Brass (ssmith1226 exclaimed that he would not take part the following year because his liver never recovered from the experience... well, it's a brewery town, isn't it?)

It's a sight reading event - no rehearsal, and you don't get the music beforehand, and have to fill at least three gigs per day with music - and of course, you are always very welcome to sit in with one of the other bands!

The dates: Festival kicks off on Friday, 12 July 2024, and ends with an open air night concert b Coronation Brass the following Monday.

Anyone wanting to know details, see the festival or even to join Coronation Brass (shepherd's crook cornets only!) should contact me IMMEDIATELY, as most seats are already filled...

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Lots of free drinks and free meals!

@henrylr That was a joke... "first position" is a trombone slide position, the shortest you can extend a trom slide. Usually about one inch. If you extend a trumpet slide any further, it will fall out.

Rowuk Hath Spoken.

@dale-proctor From my rather extended experience with Buescher trumpets, normal mouthpieces fit easily and without problems, and the 204 model # stamped on the valve block excludes it being a trumpet shaped cornet. So my guess is that that Herco mouthpiece might have begun life as an alto horn mouthpiece...

@BigDub It's the high G FOR ME. Other players may have other needs. But for my kind of playing, it's perfect. And it's slightly easier to control than a full picc.

It's that special time of the year again, and I am heading north with a small party from Brass Band Vienna to join Coronation Brass for their umpteenth participation in the European Folklore Festival in Bitburg, Germany... four days with four gigs each, no music beforehand, it's sit down and play... sight-reading old favourites and the whole time-honoured cheeseboard, with a few older test pieces thrown in for good measure... this year, the line-up of participations has more brass-related interest: Several big bands, a New Orleans-style brass band, couple of oompah outfits and the local ruffians who have evolved into a large wind orchestra of some quality... Anyone in the area from 12 July onwards should head there and get their ears full of brass playing of all sorts... meet Coronation Brass and have a few free beers with them - Bitburg, after all, is a small town next to a big, big brewery... they say the brewery employs more people than are living in the town...