Best posts made by barliman2001

Flowery lane, in Cefalu, Sicily... I'll be back there in a couple of weeks!

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

There's something new in the neighbourhood...

LOCKED, AT DR. GO'S REQUEST.

Really had to unlock the thread again after yesterday...
Ok, first rehearsal with the ACB picc. Descant part for "Fairytale" (out of Shrek).
Orchestra horribly sharp. No problem with the ACB - you can tune it up to C.
In the part, it really sang. My trumpet partner in crime (trumpet student at Vienna's Music University) was impressed and said so, wanted to try it... did try it, with a few excerpts from Torelli and Michael Haydn... gave it back, cursing all the while.
I asked him why?
Well, turns out he only last week bought a brand spanking new gold-plated Scherzer, for an outrageous $ 5.600,-, and now likes the ACB better!

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!"

My best buy ever was a Besson International Cornet which I watched being put into a garbage bin... pulled it out, asked the guy whether I could have it. He said, You're welcome to it, and I walked off. Had it restored for a mere 75 Deutschmarks (now approx. € 30) and have been playing it ever since. Last time someone offered to buy it I was tempted with three thousand dollars... and declined. You don't sell a good cornet.

Why saxophones are almost universally hated...

@mike-ansberry There is one link.

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

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

@stumac said in Wanna hear/see somethings exceptiona/l?:

Among the best tap dancing I have seen, great playing by all, BUT if I had come in cold during any of the long solos I would not have a clue what tune they were playing. All scrambled egg music. ( perhaps I am showing my age).

Regards, Stuart.

Not scrambled egg music, because with scrambled eggs, you recognize them and know approximately what's in there. These solos are something like that Chinese food, "Eight Jewels" - looking and smelling nice, but you have no clue whatsoever what's inside. And in some Chinese restaurants, you don't even want to know...

@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!
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@SSmith1226
In Vienna, where public conveniences are rare and far between, a man had an urge... no proper location anywhere. When he tried a street corner and a tree in a park, he was chased away. Finally, in desperation, he entered a doctor's surgery. Claiming urgency, he was ushered in at once and explained that he just couldn't... Seconds later, the doc watched an extraordinary performance... "Why," asked he the guy, "did you say you couldn't?" - "Oh, I can," says the guy, "but only if they give me a chance!"

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

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!

I can play that solo as well ...
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only five octaves down and twenty times slower!

Yes, I know, Courtois and dating don't go well together...
but I just got a Courtois cornet from Ukrainian dealer Igor Igor (three concentric cardboard boxes and then the original case, well protected with bubble wrap inside). Condition almost as new. Serial # is 72xx, has the name Gustave Murset engraved on bell.
Probably 1950s or 1960s - but can't date. Anyone out there who might be able to help? Info on Gustave Murset also welcome.

@SSmith1226 So you did get that Stomvi corno... does Barbara know?