Posts made by barliman2001

@administrator You are perfectly correct.

@administrator Go for it. Czech citizienship does not - like US citizenship - require you to undergo dual taxation. There are only advantages... just imagine your plane is hijacked by Al Qaida terrorists and they select the US citizens... you can then calmly show your Czech passport...
Joking apart: I really would recommend trying. Languages can be learnt somehow, and citizenship does not require you to live there. And I suppose you are over age and therefore not liable to be drafted for Czech National Service.

@ssmith1226 Thanks; but it comes down for me to either finance the cornet (and I have another four cornets - Buescher 265, Besson International x 2, Courtois, and a B&H Sovereign Sop) or pay for two orchestral trips to Italy (one in May, to Cefalù, playing 1st trumpet with Da Capo Travel - Brahms #2 and Elgar, Enigma, and the other in August, to Pistoia in Tuscany, playing Brahms 4). And being faced with this choice, I am content to let this cornet go to someone who can really enjoy it as their only cornet.
As regards cornets... what about the second weekend in July?? Bitburg?

@ssmith1226 Steve, that Olds Recording cornet would be a perfect match for my Olds Recording trumpet... what are you asking?

@georgeb The earlier ones are very, very special...

@caburn There are wonderful horns around that have a very short piston travel, are stylish in the extreme and beautiful players... the early Buescher Aristocrat 264s. Everyone knows about the Buescher 400s - but IMHO, they are slightly overrated in that they are just well-made conventional horns. The earlier 264s, however... art déco finish to the extreme, and extremely easy players with a very warm tone - you can get them into cornet territory quite easily, and they can sizzle up there just as easily.

@jolter nice ear protectors!

@administrator That is a standard Courtois 4-valve flugel... yes, they are THAT BIG!!

@jrgroove said in Adams Sonic or Yamaha 631G:

@flugelgirl I tried all the Adams 3 valve flugels today (and the ACB dblr). I liked the sound and playing feel of the F3 the most. I was shocked by the large bell size on the F2 and F3.

You would be even more shocked at the bell size of the Courtois 154R. One inch larger than the Adams monsters.

I would go for neither of the two. My choice was, is now and will always be the Courtois 154R. I've played many, very many flugelhorns in the last 30 years... and the one I always come back to is the Courtois.

@henrylr That was a joke... "first position" is a trombone slide position, the shortest you can extend a trom slide. Usually about one inch. If you extend a trumpet slide any further, it will fall out.

In Scotland...
Jock has finally killed his nagging wife and buried her in the back garden. Secretly, he shows the grave to his best friend Wullie. "But ye left the bum stickin' oot!" - "Och aye, I needed somewhere tae park ma bike."

@stumac Och aye, I ken the pipes weell... ma best friend's bass drum in a true Scottish pipe band... and I ken Uilleann pipes as weel... but tha's jist an abomination!

That must be the most horrible thing on YouTube...

@bobmiller1969
Ok. There's one more, especially for your Mum:
The little boy just does not want to go to sleep. The parents have already tried everything. Finally, the father says, "Ok, I'll get my viola and play something." - "Oh no," says Mum. "Don't resort to violence!"

@bobmiller1969 As to viola... how do you prevent a valuable violin from being stolen? -
Put it in a viola case.

What did the penniless viola player do at the end of the month? -
Went into a bank, took the viola out and said, "All the money, or I'll play!"

... and many, many returns...

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