@OldSchoolEuph It certainly can, my friend, but only if every member uses this forum in a civilized and orderly way. In the case of the deleted topic, there was very little fact and an enormous amount of defamation and abuse. And as there was indeed 90% abuse and only 10% content, it was easier to delete the whole topic.
@seth-of-lagos Mravinsky certainly let the brass do their thing , as you said, "on the ragged edge"; but that ragged edge was most probably sharpened by the instruments they had at their disposal... look at the year the recording was made: 1953. Stalin was probably still alive during much of the recording process, the Cold War was in full swing, trade relations between East and West were almost inexistent and "the Leningrad Factory" - one of only three places in the Soviet Union where brass instruments were made - still lay in ruins, only being rebuilt and back into business some years later. They probably had to do their best on - if lucky - very old instruments, or - if not - on some student grade horns slapped together somehow; and it is known that some of these musicians were reduced to building their own horns out of any materials they could find. One tuba is known to have had engine springs from a military truck as valve springs, being made out of the brass of spent shell casings...
As the joke went...
What is the difference between a Capitalist and a Socialist violin player? -
The Capitalist has an old violin and a new car, withn the Socialist it is the other way round.
@georgeb At any rate it is much more relaxing to be invited by the greats to play with them than to be called into action due to emergencies... I once attended a concert by the Dusko Gojkovich Big Band where a friend of mine was regulation 4th trumpet. At the last piece before the interval, he collapsed on stage and had to be brought to hospital by ambulance due to a ruptured gall bladder... when he was carried out, he had me called and told me "my case is in the greenroom - you carry on", and I had the unenviable task of playing on another guy's instruments, in an orchestra I had only heard once before, a repertoire I had never played... without rehearsal... somehow i got through without too many notes left out...
A parson is on a trip in a yacht when a gale comes up and sinks the boat. As he's swimming around far from land, a boat approaches. He refuses to be hauled aboard, saying, "The Lord will rescue me."
An hour later, a helicopter hovers above him. The rescue diver wants to get him into the basket, but he refuses with the words, "The Lord will save me."
Finally, he can swim no more. Sinking, he reproaches the Lord, "Oh Lord, why didn't you save me?"
And he gets an answer, "You numbskull, who did you think sent the boat and the chopper? See you in a moment!"
For me, this Christmas season started with four Christmas market gigs and will continue with five more of the same, but that is almost nothing compared to other years where sometimes I had to play Christmas Oratorio three times in a row... this year is centred around my wife's debut at Graz Opera (she sang almost everywhere else, but never before in Graz) in the small but important role of Mrs. Kramer in Kurt Weill's biggest Broadway success, A Touch of Venus - played many thousans of times in the US, but never before in Austria... Another 12 performances to go...
Here's proof that even Eurovision Contest winning songs can sound nice... if you put enough brass in!
A guy to his friends: "My mother-in-law has now reached her ideal weight." -
"Really? And what is it?" -
"Seven pounds including the urn."
As ROWUK had the right stuff at hand, the matter is now resolved. Thank you for all the offers of help - it shows that TB is the best trumpet forum ever!
And that means that I will be turning the key in the lock...
@Dale-Proctor said in Phony players:
@BigDub said in Phony players:
On the show, Hogan’s Heroes, Colonel Klink Would occasionally play the violin, much to the discomfort of those who happened to be in the same room.
He looked rather convincing, but if you looked closely, there weren’t even any strings on the instrument!Interesting factoid - Werner Klemperer’s father was Otto Klemperer, the famous orchestral conductor.
Even more interesting - quite a number of the actors in that show were either of Jewish descent or had lost family and friends due to Nazi terror.
An orchestra are touring Israel. One day, they are free and decide to go bathing on the Sea of Galilee. One downtrodden viola player wrestles with his Lord, saying: "Oh Lord, you know how poorly regarded I am. In your infinite power, let me do something remarkable and here, where you walked on water, let me do the same."
The Lord, in his infinite mercy, accedes to that request, and the viola player is walking on the water. As he nears the shore, he suddenly hears the leader of the orchestra, shouting, "Just look at him! He can't even swim!"
The only thing I did at Christmas was to tag round the rehab clinic with the local ruffians (officially "students of logopaedia nd music therapy")... a four-part choir that managed to sing at least nine parts in three different keys, two guitars that had not been tuned to each other, a mouth organ and five recorders... I am really ashamed to have been seen with those...
The BBC story is here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-13092827,
and a video link is here: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/king-tutankhamun-trumpet-oldest-in-existence/
A father has intercepted Santa on the roof... "You won't take a tenner to forget my son wanted a saxophone? Twenty? Thirty? A hundred?"
@Dr-GO We don't have a dog house... luckily, there is a maxim in the family that stand-ins always come first. Last stand-in was my wife doing Olga Kokozova in The Count of Luxembourg at two hours' notice...
What do I feel about vibrato? Slightly shaken.
A man wakes up from a long coma. His wife takes off her widow's weeds and remarks, "There's no relying on men."
Ok, if there is no need to lock it, I won't. Just wanted to test the general feeling.
A guy is travelling in a taxi and wants the driver to stop at a KFCs. So he taps the driver on the shoulder. The cabman brakes the taxi hard, jumps out of the cab and runs away, screaming. After about five minutes, the cabbie returns, shamefaced, and explains: "You know, sir, I'm only helping out a friend. My day job is driving the coroner's van..."
Hi,
you are probably not correct in saying that you need a wider mouthpiece. It might just be that in the course of your life, your jaws and teeth have changed in shape and size so that your ideal embouchure does not sit in the middle anymore, but slightly to your right. That is no catastrophe - there are many fantastic players out there who are using an off-centre embouchure. Try where your tone and range are best and most comfortable to you; but that is something best done with a teacher. Try if rowuk here might take you in an online session - he's one of the wisest around here.
"My mother-in-law used to live just a stone's throw away." -
"Why did she move?" -
"I think I hit her too often."