Best posts made by barliman2001

@m-v WELCOME BACK!!

@Dr-GO Red wine cork for rose brass, white wine cork for silver plated instruments... chips of plastic champagne corks for Chinese-made TSOs...

Living in Austria means that I have some experience of playing outside in cold weather...
several hints as to survive and produce something that is not horrible to hear...

1. Dress warmly, in several layers, keeping care that you remain mobile

2. Outermost layer should be water- and oil-proof.

3. Double gloves are useful - finger gloves with no fingertips, then a nice mitten all over to keep warm during long intervals

4. The Swiss "Brand" turbo mouthpieces are just as warm as Delrin, but produce a nicer sound.
   https://www.thomann.de/gb/cat_GK_blbmbt.html?shp=eyJjb3VudHJ5IjoiZ2IiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6NCwibGFuZ3VhZ2UiOjJ9&reload=1&manufacturer[]=Brand&gk=BLBMBT&cme=false&filter=true

5. Zip-tie a hand-warmer to the valve block (not a coal-burning one - if they come undone, they will set fire to your gig-bag):

@Bertie said in Christmas Services:

I did a chamber music program for the patients in a hospital here in Munich (some Gershwin, Brahms with piano, and Milhaud, Ewazen with my trio violin, trumpet, piano). Sunday will be a Messiah Open Sing in a church... and that's it for this year

You're in Munich??

I can only counter this with how Maurice André once described trumpet playing to me:
"Playing se trompette is like singing, just wisout a sore throat."

@discount-bassy Official Welcome too! You've reached forum where the most perfect trumpet players and the bloodiest of greenhorns - and all shades in between - gather amicably and learn from each other, in a fun atmosphere. And you've come here from the best of motives. Thank you.
Perhaps - if you are in the mood - you might tell us a few bits more about yourself so that we can form a picture of who and what you are beside a nickname and an avatar. No compulsion whatsoever. But we like to know whether you are, as Dorothy L. Sayers put it in the 1920s "boy, girl or hippogriff", where you are located (that is most important, if we are to recommend technicians or teachers or contacts), what kind of music you play and like and where you can be heard live, if someone happens to be in your area. Online contacts are very well; but personal friendships can only really develop if you can meet someone in person. I'm in Vienna, and quite a few TB members have already availed themselves of the opportunity to come here, have a nice talk about trumpets and other things over a meal or a coffee and cake; and in some cases, this ended up with concert tours all over the world, as ssmith1226 can vouch for (he's from the Florida Keys, and a call for help on TB caused him to fly over to Vienna and join a very special orchestra for tours to St. Petersburg, Russia and Lviv, Ukraine). And I have already responded to calls from Norway and Israel. So - the more you will let us know, the more we can plan you in!

@Curlydoc Or you could use the sethoflagos method: He is allowed to buy any trumpet he wants, as long as he spends the equal amount of money on his wife (usually jewellery). ssmith1226 is working the same method with equal success.

Thank you; for me, being trained in the Maurice André way of playing #4 valve with the left index finger, this horn is not suitable, lacking the mechanism to operate # 4 this way. It was difficult enough with my Scherzer G (lovely horn, loved playing it until I inherited a Selmer G from Maurice André)...

Me playing my Scherzer G in Händel's Messiah...

@GeorgeB said in Christmas Services:

@barliman2001
Now that was one really interesting situation. Playing in the cold is definitely no fun. But I'm sure you did well, sir.

We did miserably. No doubt about it.

Just came across Valaida Snow... here's her take on Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher (with Cab and his orchestra!)

@ladonna2 Welcome at TrumpetBoards! We will endeavour to make a musical home for you here. Ask any question you might have (within reason), and have fun playing trumpet!

@Kujo20 Gerd Dowids in Munich and Votruba in Vienna only make their own.

I can confirm that that iceberg is huge, and in pristine condition. Steve Smith has been hoarding treasures for years... now it is for you all to say "Open Sesame" and get at the treasure...

@Dr-GO said in Christmas Services:

Finished my Christmas Performance at the Lutheran Church just a few hours ago, the last service ending about 12:15 AM! Two Services were played. One at 7 pm, the other started at 10:30 pm.

The organ/trumpet combo was just perfect. The organist arranged I play each hymn with the lyrical line the first verse, sit out the second verse (choir only sings) the descant vocal line for the third verse, and the trumpet descant part (the piccolo lines) for the forth verse. That REALLY was a nice way to present the parts as ending with the descant piccolo line really made the ending ring out in the church.

That's Christmas Service as it should be.

@administrator I got to hear MF when a young child - badgered my stepfather into driving me to the annual local jazz festival... and many years later I attended a master class by Al Porcino, Stan Kenton's lead trumpet...

@J-Jericho I had a Studio once, and loved it; but then, Votruba's of Vienna told me they had a Recording sitting there, unsold for man months because no one liked the Balanced style; and so I got it for a mere song (less than € 500): A 1954 LA Recording, almost unplayed, with almost virgin valves... now my main axe. I consequentl sold the Studio and was able to afford a Courtois Balanced as well... just out of the sale proceedings of the Studio...

Hi,
I've just snared a Gaudet C trumpet on fleabay which from the pictures could only have been a Courtois... typical pinkie hook (but without the hole to make AC), typical Courtois valves, typical Courtois water keys... but the engraving on the bell says "Gaudet, France". It was a mere € 250 so not much lost in any event (no other bidder!), but I'd like to know more. Anyone out there willing to part with essential knowledge? Nothing on horn-u-copia.

@callmekolak SOLD - sorry. Should have locked the thread.

@Bertie said in Christmas Services:

Oh, I wanted a week free, but I got last minute gig for New year's eve lutheran church service in Munich (3 trumpets + 3 trombones). And now I have to practice . My son was born a week ago, so you know... not much sleep anyway

CONGRATULATIONS!

@Tobylou8 Actually, it's not a cornopean, but a stop-gap device: It's a right-handed French horn, to be played by a cornet or flugelhorn player in bands where they could not get their hands on proper French horn players... they are still being made!
http://www.flohmarkt.ms/hoerner/meister+hans+hoyer+f+waldhorn+rechtsgriffig+goldmessing+neuware/a/f45e9e5d/?absIndex=20&categoryId=3401000000&keywords=es-waldhorn&rView=gallery