@trumpetb Specials are, well, special. I know that because I bought one, played it for about a month, and then the seller approached me whether he could buy the horn back - he was missing it so much. I agreed, of course, and got myself a Studio and, finally, a Recording.
@bigdub Apple has a reputation for creating huge file sizes without really much showing for it... it just might be that Garage Band files are smaller and better handled by the computer... and if you are not running an original Apple system, the problem might just be that the conversion of Apple Music into a Windows compatible version has blown up file size so much that all the "rubbish" is clogging up the system to an extent that pitch is already affected, whereas playing time is not yet.
@discount-bassy Official Welcome too! You've reached forum where the most perfect trumpet players and the bloodiest of greenhorns - and all shades in between - gather amicably and learn from each other, in a fun atmosphere. And you've come here from the best of motives. Thank you.
Perhaps - if you are in the mood - you might tell us a few bits more about yourself so that we can form a picture of who and what you are beside a nickname and an avatar. No compulsion whatsoever. But we like to know whether you are, as Dorothy L. Sayers put it in the 1920s "boy, girl or hippogriff", where you are located (that is most important, if we are to recommend technicians or teachers or contacts), what kind of music you play and like and where you can be heard live, if someone happens to be in your area. Online contacts are very well; but personal friendships can only really develop if you can meet someone in person. I'm in Vienna, and quite a few TB members have already availed themselves of the opportunity to come here, have a nice talk about trumpets and other things over a meal or a coffee and cake; and in some cases, this ended up with concert tours all over the world, as ssmith1226 can vouch for (he's from the Florida Keys, and a call for help on TB caused him to fly over to Vienna and join a very special orchestra for tours to St. Petersburg, Russia and Lviv, Ukraine). And I have already responded to calls from Norway and Israel. So - the more you will let us know, the more we can plan you in!
Of course, there are still people around who have been through puberty but retained their boy voices, sometimes through relevant training. Most of these are nowadays called "counter tenors" or "male altos". One of the best known is Jochen Kowalski, here singing the alto aria "Bereite Dich Zion" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio:
@georgeb At any rate it is much more relaxing to be invited by the greats to play with them than to be called into action due to emergencies... I once attended a concert by the Dusko Gojkovich Big Band where a friend of mine was regulation 4th trumpet. At the last piece before the interval, he collapsed on stage and had to be brought to hospital by ambulance due to a ruptured gall bladder... when he was carried out, he had me called and told me "my case is in the greenroom - you carry on", and I had the unenviable task of playing on another guy's instruments, in an orchestra I had only heard once before, a repertoire I had never played... without rehearsal... somehow i got through without too many notes left out...
@newell-post Looks and sounds very, VERY interesting...
@newell-post That is the direction I'm thinking of.
@ssmith1226 "Due to the rising cost of electricity, police will replace tasers with nettle wands..."
For me, this Christmas season started with four Christmas market gigs and will continue with five more of the same, but that is almost nothing compared to other years where sometimes I had to play Christmas Oratorio three times in a row... this year is centred around my wife's debut at Graz Opera (she sang almost everywhere else, but never before in Graz) in the small but important role of Mrs. Kramer in Kurt Weill's biggest Broadway success, A Touch of Venus - played many thousans of times in the US, but never before in Austria... Another 12 performances to go...
For a moderator, it is a very difficult decition... on the one hand, let thins play out; but on the other hand, take the flak if someone runs amok... I am very bad at taking flak...
@dr-go ... and as the discussion seems to have maneuvered itself into no-man's-land (if not a dead end) and threatens to slip - again - into the murk of speculation and worse, I am finally locking this thread.
Whether you are celebrating Christmas, or Hanukkah, or Diwali, or the 12th Week of Halloween, or Birthday or Wedding Anniversary or Happy 9th Divorce, my Season's Greetings to you. May all of you enjoy the best of health, the best of food, the best of company, and the best of trumpets!
When I started on trumpet, at the tender age of 22 after winning a trumpet in a tombola (!), no one mentioned air support or posture to me...
but then, I was an experienced choir singer and already in the second year of voice studies at university...
@j-jericho Unfortunately not... hearing the same tune played in different fashions usually does not lead to heated arguments and bad language; the buzzing discussion already has a history of inciting both. I do not WANT to lock the thread - just needed to give advance warning to keep the discussion within polite levels.
We already had two threads on Buzzing - Good or Bad?, and both led to indigestible altercations, and eventual forced locking-up. Everything that can be said about buzzing has already been extensively said over and over again. Can we please just agree to disagree, everyone to find happiness in their own fashion?
I don't like locking threads.
@administrator Condition? Pictures?
@trumpetb Actually, Mozart was given the second name Amadé (the Frenchified version of Amadeus) at birth... but as is usual in Austria, he did not use it except on formal occasions. To his parents, he was "Wolferl", to some of his friends "Gangerl".
Only in official correspondence he used the full name, partly Latinized: "Wolfgangus Amadé Mozart".
And to make things quite clear: There is no other well-known composer with that second name.
@administrator I don't put up an ad on THE OTHER SITE!!