Posts made by barliman2001

@josephtriscari62 WELCOME! You have found your way into the friendliest and best informed trumpet forum on the web!

@BigDub Cefalu in May is clement - nice sunny weather, but not too hot, with the sea already warm enough... outside dining in the evenings, with wonderful seafood...

My wife, enjoying a sefood platter (with local oysters!) nd the local frizzante wine...

So, just to get everyone up to date on me as a moderator and a human being... and explaining why I have been more or less absent for such a long time...

End of last October, I suffered a stroke. Mild one - the medical term is infarctus cerebelli, a closure of a blood vessel in that part of the brain. Our medical men have already commented on that, and their comments were very helpful indeed.

Since then, I have had five weeks in hospital and another five weeks of rehab. The latter was fun - very attentive nurses, lots of programme, and a chance of concentrating on Arban again (I had my pocket trumpet with me, with a practice mute, and managed to do at least an hour per day...)

Since then, things have been improving very much. From just lying in bed without being able to properly move, I have progressed to being able to walk - albeit slowly. Within the house, it's free walking, with an occasional grab at a table whenever vertigo raises its ugly head, and outside I am still dependent on crutches (can get by with one, but it's safe with two).

Driving is no option yet - have to get a specialist's assessment for that. The rehab clinic did a full assessment and told be that my reactions and sight are good enough to drive, but as the clinic would be liable if I caused an accident after being in their care, they denied my ability to drive (simpl for liability issues!)

That specialist's assessment is on 11 April; but notwithstanding the results, I will be going to Sicily to my annual holiday with Symphonic Holidays (www.dacapo-travel.eu) for nine days of rehearsals topped up with a concert... going by train from Munich to Bologna, and then by night train directly to Cefalu - which, by the way, is a very charming small town near Palermo...

More updates later!

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

Small breakfast in Cefalu, Sicily...

Vincenzo, the 89-ear-old barber in Cefalu - quite a fan of classical music. All trumpet players from the Filarmonici di Cefalu get his services free!

A painted electric fuse board lid in Cefalu, Sicily. There are many such there.

@SSmith1226 Thank you very much!!

Oh, did you send me an e-mail with an attachment, "How an Eclipse works"?
If not, your e-mail has been hacked.

@Trumpetb If you don't blow, it sucks.

@J-Jericho Nice Bach C...

@J-Jericho You are d-n right with your last sentence!

@Richard-III Many early Buescher trumpets had that "wrong" wrap.

Nice! From the profile, a typical "peashooter" of the period...

I know that the threads differ according to the year of manufacture and that buttons for the Blessing Scholastic series of CORNETS don't fit on TRUMPETS.

@J-Jericho Thanks very much - exactly the info needed!

Some years ago, I got my hands on a Buescher Aristocrat Bb trumpet, model 244, serial number 634xxx. Yellow brass with nickel silver leadpipe, octagonal finger buttons and top and bottom valve caps, and trombone style water keys on both main and 3rd valve slides. Model 244 is not included in the Buescher catalogues published in horn-u-copia - even though later models as the 265 and 266 are - and the serial numbers list dates my instrument - which has all the style elements of a late art nouveau or Bauhaus instrument - at late 1975... Can anyone shed light on this mystery?

@rleegabe Ok then.

So now we can close this thread?

@administrator Eventhe Scholastics are not universally interchangeable as not all Scholastics come from the same factory...

@CaptainRat Ask Votruba in Vienna. They should be able to come up with something.