Posts made by barliman2001

@tptguy Before you do anything drastic: What kind of mouthpiece are you using? Perhaps it's just the mp that does not suit the instrument. And which Bach Strad are you playing? Shepherd's Crook as well?

As to "off-brand" horns - there are many, many good quality makers in Germany and Austria who are only known locally. Schagerl and Lechner, many have heard of. Dowids of Munich is already on the "not-so-well-known" list. Votruba of Vienna - a blank to many, even though they are at least on a par with Lechner. And in the tiny village of Künzing, in Bavaria, lives a man called Uli Pfreimbtner who really is on the forefront of research in trumpet design. He recently unveiled a trumpet and flugelhorn made entirely out of nickel silver (which makes these instruments virtually corrosion-free) with new rotary valves of his own design. Here's the link:
http://www.musikinstrumente-neusilber.de/Aktuelles.html
At the moment, that site is in German only - Uli is a bit slow in getting his site into English.

@Dr-GO Here in Vienna, I am always eager to welcome any former TMers or TBers - as Sethoflagos, rowuk and SSmith1226 can witness.

@L-A-Horn The Ganschhorn is $5k+ only if new. There are a spate of used, nearly new Ganschhorns out there at less than half the price. These once-loved Ganschhorns usually turn out to have some kind of problem - in many cases loose stays.

@L-A-Horn Depends on what kind of bang you want. If it's just a metallic bang, you can buy any used Chinese junk TSO for ten bucks, throw it out of an upstairs window and wait for the bang...

@SSmith1226
Kids at school comparing their Christmas presents.
Ed replies, a bit bored, "A football, a stone sling and an airgun. The usual." -
"Why, "the usual"?" his classmates ask.
"Well, my father's a glazier."

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

@neal085 By the way, I prefer poached. That way, the egg keeps its integrity while displaying a soft outside. And the inside is thoroughly yellow!

@Trumpetsplus You are welcome! The one thing I don't want is people who just don't care.

@Comeback thanks

@GeorgeB thanks

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.

Suddenly, after a longish wait, I found "Global Moderator" beside my name... well, quite a few people here know about me from TM, but for all those who don't or who did not really care at the time, here's all about me. I don't have a fancy website - more or less because I'm busy updating my wife's website. But here's everything of interest about me:
I'm a 53-year-old Bavarian (well, German national, but I prefer my local tribe) living in Austria, near Vienna. Married to an opera singer (www.reginaschoerg.com). By trade, I am a historian.
My musical past consisted of children's choir, then the local church choir and finally, after studying voice with several renowned teachers, soloist with the Passau Cathedral Choir and the Dublin Guinness Choir. From age four, I played piano - did not really like it, but was good at it.
Until I accidentally put my hand through a glass door and cut a nerve. Fortunately, the same year I had won my first trumpet in a raffle... went on to Kinneil Band in Scotland (current British National Champions!), then back to Germany. Seven years in Ireland, playing with a number of brass bands and the Greystones Symphony, eventually conducting this orchestra. Since then, Principal Trumpet of the one and only Vienna Klezmer Orchestra (www.klezmerorchester.at) and webmaster for Munich-based Markus Fluhr Big Band (www.bbmf.de).
So far, I have performed on trumpet in twelve different countries and a total of 97 orchestras or bands (usually as a sub). I have been known to pack the car at a moment's notice and drive several days just for one interesting gig...
My finest moment in history? When I walked into a Vienna coffee house and they had a clarinet converted into a table lamp!

Feel free to contact me - I'm sure to answer.

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!

@Niner That story came up already once or twice on TM. I've researched further, and found that the CEH research found the lead by boring deep into the core of the mouthpieces, not on the surface, and then in minute quantities. No trumpet player ever has been found to suffer from any il-effects of lead (which, by the way, is easy to detect). CEH has been known to sue companies for supposed breaches of health issues.

@mdwilliams Well, there is the Stomvi Mouthpiece System which I've extolled regularly on TM RIP. In the basic configuration, you get one rim of your choice, two shanks (trumpet and cornet or flugel) and eight different cups, ranging from FL - v-shaped and intended for flugel via A to F, F being the shallowest and best suited for screaming or picc work. And with that system (you can buy additional shanks and rims and cups) you can try out any mouthpiece combination you want and yet speedily (and inexpensively) return to your standard configuration.

@Niner For example, a Buescher trumpet would be type # 9 without the Bb/A valve, and be designated #12 with the valve. The valve did not have a separate serial number.

@Niner You are correct as to York horns. With Buescher, the extra valve gave a different type number.

The A slides can come in handy, though... I once had to play an Easter Sunday gig in church... Mozart Organ Solo Mass (trumpet in C). What the conductor had not mentioned was that for Holy Communion, the choir and orchestra were to perform the Haec Dies by Caspar Ett, which asks for a trumpet in A... Luckily, I never go to gigs without some extra hardware "for emergencies". Usually, when using the C, this emergency hooter is a 1920s Buescher with a Bb-to-A switch valve... one turn of the screw, and Caspar Ett was performed by the trumpet asked for.