Best posts made by barliman2001

A Christmas thought:
What would a crib be without Jews, Arabs and Foreigners? -
Just an ox and an ass.

@administrator IMHO, you should go for something that will really represent you as a musical individual. I've got nothing against Yammies; but I am repulsed by their predictable, reliable sameness. Many people like that; but for me, it just means that you are predictable and not an individual. That is why I have given up on new horns altogether. There was a time when I had a full set of Stomvis (Bb, C, D/Eb, picc) and really liked them; but then, I happened upon a 1940s Buescher Aristocrat, with the result that I now play the Buescher, and an old Courtois for a D, and a 1970s Besson for an Eb, and the Stomvis had to go on. With these old horns, I always got the feeling that somehow I am continuing tradition, that somehow those guys who played these hooters before me are still alive in their horns...
As to getting yourself an instrument - you can't go wrong with, say, an Olds Recording or Studio (have both - can be used anywhere.) Or you can go for a 1980s Selmer or Courtois... the possibilities are endless. Get yourself a cheap solid horn first to get back into shape - Olds Ambassador, or a 4000 series Yammie, or a Stomvi Forte, or an intermediate Getzen - and then work up until you are back to being able to say which horn you now want and what is suitable for you. IME, as soon as you are ready for it, the right horn will find you. It's not the other way round.

@georgeb Still playing until he peacefully passed away at age 92.

@georgeb You are very welcome. Currently, there is not much on youtube; but amazon has several of her recordings.

Ok, change of topic. A guy is drinking in a bar with his friends and seems pretty miserable. "What's the matter, Jake?" one friend asks. "Normally, you're the life and soul of the party, and tonight you're like a mouse eaten by a snake..." - "It's my mother-in-law," he says. "She's changed her will and totally disinherited us, just because I looked at her." - "That's pretty nasty, for such a minor thing." - "Well, it happened as we were saying Grace at lunch, and I looked at her when we reached, 'and deliver us from Evil'..."

@barliman2001
And that is how the orchestra looked like, in the Teatro Civico Salvatore Cicero in Cefalu... (here with Brahms' Double Concerto)

@jolter The guy is a former lawyer who is now doing this. He bought a couple of houses in French abandoned village Bardou and started with chamber music sessions there, and now he's upgraded to full symphonic. I've known him for a couple of years, and you could not find a nicer organizer. Most competent - as a cellist as well - and always on the look-out for new players. Best possible service, too - no need to bring music stands or lights or anything, as everything in that line will be provided. For cellists and bassists and the like who can't take their instruments on flights, he can provide instruments and only recently commissioned a new double bass from a reputable maker for just that purpose. And it's not only music, either. Every Symphonic Holiday comprises sight-seeing outings, picknicks in lovely landscapes and enough spare time to do things on your own.

@administrator
Whoa!
You should try a different approach - mine.
Got my Courtois flugelhorn as a factory surplus - free.
Inherited

• my B&H Sovereign trombone
• my Selmer G picc

found my Garreis trombone in an ntique shop for a hundred quid
found my latest cornet (Besson Bb/A) in a pawn shop, for less than $100...

Got this nice and wonderfully decorated Conn International off e-bay at € 47...

and was given this nice Arnold & Sons pocket trumpet - the ideal hospital trumpet! free, in exchange for a review...

and finally exchanged a badly dented and patched UMI Benge 7 for this Olds Recording...

I've just researched the matter. Greatleather is a boutique leather goods manufacturer with an eye to musicians' needs. Without this connection, I would have terminated this new membership; but seeing that there is a direct connection with trumpet playing, I'll let the memership live. Homepage at www.greatleather.com.

@georgeb Indeed, Cefalù with Symphonioc Holidays is always a treat. It's a great little town, with spectacular volcanic beaches and a very steep Rock as background, an 11th century Cathedral, no cars - the roads are too narrow - and a plethora of wonderful restaurants. Combine that with rehearsal rooms from the 15th century and friends in the orchestra who regularly meet there... a dream come true.

@Dr-GO Needs to be a slide instrument... but if you've once mastered the slide positions on a normal trombone, it's easy (relative distances as regards mouthpiece/bell rim remain roughly the same). It's tougher on the tenor trombone due to the vastly different mouthpiece size. But even that can be mastered with enough incentive: Some years ago I inherited a trombone from a dear departed friend... thirteen years after his passing, his daughter called me and told me they had opened up her father's music room for the first time, and found hand-written labels who was to inherit what... and his pride and joy went to me (B&H Sovereign big bell trombone)... and of course I was in honour bound to learn. First piece I played was Amazing Grace at his graveside... been using it for a number of gigs since.

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

Whatever happened to Peter Cetera's brother Et?

He married and took the surname of his wife, Aliis.

Niiiceee... if only there weren't so many mouthpiece pouches covering the horn!

@N1684T At this time, I've been through four hospitals in three countries, starting off with Huddersfield Royal Infirmary in the UK (which is a place to avoid - not the UK, but the hospital)), the ordeal beginning on 15 March...

Definition of Alzheimer's Alcoholism:
You drink a lot and then forget to pay for it.

Doctor to wife: "I'm sorry, but your husband is dead."
Husband (from the bed): "Hey, that's not true!"
Wife: "You shut your mouth. The doctor knows what he is doing."

@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".

@administrator You can always find me in Vienna - quite near to Prague.