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As regards "Knock knock..."
An old lady had a parrot and a TV. One day, the TV broke down, so the old lady called an engineer to repair the TV. However, shortly before the engineer came, the old lady had forgotten the appointment and went out shopping, leaving the parrot in charge.
A very few minutes later, the TV engineer rang the bell. From inside, he heard a voice calling, "Who's there?"
He replied, "The TV engineer."
Again, a voice from within, "Who's there?"
Slightly exasperated, the caller replied, "The TV engineer..." -
"Who's there?" - "THE TV ENGINEER!!" - "Who's there?" - Yelling at the top of his voice, "THE TV ENGINEER!!" - "Who's there?" (engineer has a heart attack and faints in front of the door)
A few minutes later, the old lady returns, sees the unconscious man in her front garden and exclaims, "Who's that?" - "The TV engineer, the TV engineer..."

@dr-go Won't ban you for that.

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

Rowuk Hath Spoken.

@georgeb With breaks, of course. Austrian weddings involve many speeches all over the day, and lots of pranks. In total, there's perhaps twelve ours playing time in 28 hours of attendance.

At any rate, gone are the days when anything went through... I remember flying from Ireland to London Heathrow using an expired German target shooting club membership card as ID...

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...

@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...

I think that this matter is now resolved, and we can close this thread. Agreed?

@georgeb Weddings? Coming home at 2 am? That's a tame wedding... here in Austria, a wedding starts at 6am, with a rousing fanfare played in the street in front of the groom's house; then there's the morning snack and schnaps; then the registry office wedding, afterwards the church wedding, then the reception. After that, the dance band takes over from the oompah band until midnight, when the newlyweds retire; and the dance band continues, because next morning, the wedding guests have to wake up the honeymooners... so if you are lucky enough to be in the dance band and sub in the oompah outfitm you are getting up at four am, play for more or less 24 hours flat out, and are back at home around 10am... tired, not wired!

What did the trumpet player want who continued to practice from 12 midnight to 4 am every night? -

A cheap price for the house next door!

@chelpres The "ue" in German is somewhere between a U "oo" and an i "ee". Reminding yourself of a Scottish accent, you might phonetically write it "ui" as in Scottish "puir" for "poor".

@bigdub for some reason? She had money. Lots of. Even bought - yes, bought! - Carnegie Hall for a concert...

@dr-go Well said!

@tornado1957 If you don't play, why don't you start?

Scottish gangsters were easily caught after a smash-and-grab raid.
Why?
They came back for the brick.

@administrator If you want it, and have the money, go for it. Nothing as deplorable as a missed chance. As a German saying has it, "The opportune has long hair up in front to grab, but bald is from behind."

Bit of talking at the beginning, about how seriously they take music... and then...

I hate breaking-in instruments. That's why I have said goodbye to even thinking about new instruments, and have concentrated on vintage hooters - which, to me at least, have more character anyway. They seem to have accumulated the wisdom and musical spirit of all the players before me.
For me, it's simply a joy to think about how long a pedigree a vintage instrument must have.
And - what's more - I've found that I much prefer the Balanced style of trumpet. Somehow, I feel more at home with them, and they seem to like me... so I now have only one "normal" trumpet left (amongst the Bbs, that is), my 1920s Buescher Aristocrat (oh, and one Conn-Amati thing that is remarkable only for the blue lacquer and the drunk vulture enamelled on the bell). Apart from that, there is two Courtois Balanced models (originally the same model; but one came to me in decrepit old age, and the geriatric department at Votruba's were afraid to restore it as it might dissolve into dust at anything beyond a gentle rub-over with a soft cloth. They recommended I should not even polish the silver plating, as the plating more or less kept the horn together... still a wonderful player, so when a friend mentioned he had a spare one - actually, his wife set him a limit in the number of horns he is allowed to have, so when he wants another one, one has to go, and he desperately wanted an Inderbinen - I secured that before it went elsewhere), and my Olds Recording.

Just happened onto this clip... Maurice André with a very different repertoire!