Best posts made by barliman2001

@trickg Unfortunately, I don't play it as well. The case is hand-signed as well.

Just got this message from my friends at allegro optical - the Musicians' Optician:
"Here’s a shout out for all my musicians friends who struggle to visit West Yorkshire! The Musicians Optician can now visit you in your own home anywhere in England, Scotland and surrounding islands and Northern Ireland. If you struggle to get to West Yorkshire “Home consultations” are now available. Call 0333 335 5745 or visit https://www.performingartsvisioncare.com/ If you are struggling to #SeeTheMusic or more. The team is going mobile and can come to you!"

@grune said in Instrument Maintenance:

@barliman2001 that's an enviable collection for any serious player. which is your favourite?

Every single one, depending on the purpose. I've got a wonderful 1950s Courtois Balanced for jazz and big band work, a #7 Benge for anything chamber music/brass quintet, a really nice Buescher Aristocrat for larger orchestral stuff... even runs down to a Conn International that's perfect for carnival/mardi gras work because some previous owner had it lacquered blue and enamelled with a drunken vulture... the one very special favourite amongst trumpets would be a Selmer high-G picc that I inherited from Maurice André.

@SSmith1226 Steve, you're too modest and underrating your own ability. I've sat beside you for many hours of rehearsing and performing, and you were the most reliable second trumpet I've ever had when playing in an orchestra with only two trumpet players in a sea of - let's be neutral and say, Others.

@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.

Quite interesting that in the Asterix comics, 2017 saw a chariot race through Italy where one team consisted of charioteer Coronavirus and his offsider Bacillus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_and_the_Chariot_Race

@BigDub I'm in again for playing at the European Folklore Festival in Bitburg, Germany, with Welsh brass band Coronation Brass. ssmith1226 knows the routine, and has gone through that; but for every one else, I'll tell of the procedure.
Every year, a scratch band is formed for this event - mostly by word of mouth and b e-mail. Then, from the four corners of the earth, around 25 people gather in Bitburg on a Friday afternoon, have a drink or two together and get handed a folder of sheet music from the Great British Brass Band Repertoire, usually containing two or three big Championship Section test pieces of the past, a couple of marches and a selection from the musical cheeseboard. And then everyone is told to don their black tie outfits and be ready to play (i.e. perform in front of an eexpectant public) within the hour, for two to three hours, and then have a go at drinking the brewery cellars empty. Next morning, after breakfast, play three minor half-hour gigs, then a big two-hour event, then another all-night open air concert... and repeat until Monday evening. In all, from Friday to Monday, Coronation Brass manages to squeeze in more or less fifteen hours performance time.
No rehearsal, just sight reading.
And the crowds love it.

Quite a number of player manage to help out in other bands while Coronation Brass is officially resting...

@mike-ansberry There is one link.

@administrator Are you going to start building violas?? Shame on you!

Well, at least you need massive amounts of air moving through the trumpet to use spitballs.

@Dr-GO Thank you for the flowers!

Now that we've relearned how to wash our hands, we can tackle how to use indicators in traffic.

Air is needed to play trumpet - as I just found out when a spitball got stuck.

@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??

@BigDub Wearing a uniform for a flight upgrade is easy. But flying internationally with just a target shooting club membership card as ID - that's tough.
Did it. In the old days, on a flight from Dublin to London Heathrow. As neither the UK nor Ireland had any compulsory form of ID, they accepted anything with your pic in it. They did not notice that that club membership card was nine years out of date!
(And no, it was AFTER 9/11).

@rowuk Robin,
as a part-time singing teacher, I've utilized the Circle of Breath many times... it really works. But as I feel it is more or less YOUR CoB, I let you explain it.

@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.

Doctor: "Your cough sounds much better now."
Patient: "Well, I'm practising enough day and night."

@joelf Welcome to TB! You've come to the right place to find company and advice. There are three No-Nos here:

1. No politics
2. No woodwinds
3. No shirking

And there are three Musts:

1. Must check in regularly (even if only once a month) because there's so much new stuff coming in
2. Must always be ready for a joke to be flung around
3. Must always keep track of the number of instruments you have (incurable n+1 syndrome)

Oh, and one final obligation:

HAVE FUN!

@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.