Posts made by barliman2001

@vulgano-brother Thanks for the info; but I am not in the market for a new instrument. Some used beater would do.

As some of you may know, Vienna's Scouts' Band has completed the transition from traditional oompah band to British-style Brass Band. We got rid of all the woodwinds - another band was happy to take them - and the rotaries, and now we are fighting to get more proper repertoire. Our rep player has been fretting for a solo for a long time, so we decided to get in a few marches that fit the description. There is one piece that Coronation Brass is playing every year, with two melodious repiano solos... unfortunately, no one here remembers the title... it's a one-page piece. and it is a one-word title.
More, I don't know; but I am certain that I can recognize the title as soon as someone helps me to it...

@ssmith1226 You can't beat the Hungarians in showmanship... at one time in Hollywood, most showbiz recruiting agencies had signs, "It's not enough to be Hungarian".

@rowuk Thanks

To make quite clear why I am looking for an F Alto trumpet: Together with a few other people, I've founded an amateur original sound orchestra here in Vienna. We don't go for Baroque original sound - too expensive for amateurs - but rather for Classical and Romantic era music. Lots of the trumpet parts at this time were written for trumpet in F... so any hybrids or weirdos like Frumpets are out of the question.

I am looking for an F alto trumpet with normal trumpet shank. Is there such a thing?

@tjveloce bach loyalist, horn-u-copia...

@tjveloce The thumb ring obviously is a later add-on, as you can see by the incomplete rhomb of the base and the colour that is different from the colour of the 3rd valve ring. Bottom valve caps are newer. The pinkie hook has been bent out of original shape, possibly to better fit the owner's hand.
Solder marks in the middle of every valve. Possibly a Frankenhorn. Have you checked the serial number?

@dr-go As we are discussing the health of the recipient, I insist on deep-fried. In very old, dark brown oil.

@richard-iii Always a bad idea, mixing cornets and trumpets - unless you are the principal seat of the section.

@trumpetb No, I won't roast you. I prefer deep-fried.

@administrator Then you chose the wrong cornets to play. I've got a Buescher 265 that is so fantastic in sound and handleability that it has become my main big band axe for anything going into the lower register. In that role, it can match my main big band trumpet - an Olds Recording!

As valid as many of these comments may be - we are getting very far from the original topic and into dangerous political matters. To avoid ruption, I am provisionally locking this thread. If there is something to be added to the original story, whoever wants to put it in just has to ask to get the thread opened again. This is not censorship - just a gentle reminder to abstain from politics.

@bobmiller1969 Still, the pure black and white design appealed to me more than the coloured-in version. But at least it is something you and others can connect to. If you're happy, then I'm happy for you.
The only tattoo I might allow myself would be a saxophone... somewhere round the back...

@dr-go Well, the conductor is new to his role. He was an accomplished professional trumpet player for more than thirty years and a European Bach Strad signature artist, so a certain bias towards that company is understandable. By his own admission, he has never played a French trumpet or flugel in his life... ok, I think I'll sit down with him and have him test my selection of French instruments...

As a few people here already know, Vienna now has a proper British brass band, under the name of Pfadfinderfanfare Wien (Scouts' Band Vienna), and I've been honoured with the flugelhorn position. So far, I've been using my own Courtois 154R flugel, but last rehearsal, the conductor approached me and told me that the band had several world-class flugels lying around and he would like me to use one of theirs... I agreed - no problem with playing a good flugel and thus aving playing time on my own.
Yesterday was The Day. He brought along what he described as "the best flugel the band has, and one of the best flugels ever made."
I was expecting something really, really special... what be brought out was an old and slightly decrepit Bach Strad 135... serial number 423 xxx, dating it into 1994.
Following orders, I played the first two pieces on this, ... until the conductor exclaimed, "Your own flugel is obviously much better than this, and you certainly know how to get the best out of it... I'll take back the Bach."
Inviting comments.

@trumpetb Blame that dance prohibition on the radical Killjoys... after prohibition failed, that was their new method of getting back to what they call "Christian morals". Dance was seen - and some still do today - as the direct road to hell, as were innocent things like milk bars - in fact anything that might give pleasure to people. As one wit once said,
"The English Puritans banned bear-baiting not because of distress to the bear, but because of the pleasure of the spectators."

@dale-proctor So we can conclude that wet is always preferable to dry - a sentiment shared by glasses of whisky.

@kehaulani It does not show anything of that; only that they did not have the same kind of access to up to date instruments, and, older instruments usually being narrower bores than later ones, the sound may have sharpened and thus given an edge to the playing. As to the surviving of older instruments... most instruments of the Leningrad Philharmonic were kept in the Philharmonic Building as they were not the private property of the musicians, but owned by the orchestra, rules about private property being what they were at the time. Musicians were not supposed to practice at home, many even before the war living in shared apartments (one three-bedroom apartment shared between three or even four families), a condition that became even more crowded as war destruction worsened. Professional musicians were expected to practice in the orchestra building - the Leningrad Philharmonia housing both the Leningrad Philhrmonic Orchestra and the Academic Symphonic Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonia - which suffered heavy damage from German bombing resulting in the loss of many older instruments and part of the sheet music archive.

@trumpetb No one so far has mentioned current politics; as far as my knowledge of the Ukrainian music scene goes - and it is pretty good, seeing that I am in daily contact with quite a number of professional and non-professional musicians in Ukraine - the actual instruments they are using are from pretty decent to absolutely stunning. The days of the old Soviet bloc instruments are gone. Their main problem nowadays:
a) many musicians have volunteered for the armed forces, territorial defence or emergency services
b) frequent interruptions of rehearsals
c) unavailability of venues due to either destruction or repurposing (Lviv Philharmony was converted into a storage for medical supplies).

Still, they continue playing wherever and however they can.

Example: A video of a concert played yesterday in Lviv by drummer Dmitrij Myloslavsky and his band. https://www.facebook.com/dmitriy.myloslavsky/videos/655678329587434