Posts made by barliman2001

I once met HM, many, many years ago (around 1990), at the official opening of an exhibition about the Domesday Book in the Public Record Office (now National Archives) in London... I was there for the exhibition which enabled me to view many documents that I needed for my PhD thesis in one place instead of spread out all over the country... so I had planned to be there on Day One and stay as long as needed. I was in the exhibition hall when suddenly a group of obvious security officials appeared, a red carpet was unrolled and a tape was slung across the entrance - mind you, there were about fifteen visitors already inside because the exhibition had opened at 9 am and by this time, it was 11 - then the Keeper of the Records arrived, in full robes and panoply, a couple of other officials lined up, and then HM arrived, in a pigeon-blue costume with matching hat. Someone dropped on one knee to present HM with a cushion with the scissors on it, and she cut the tape and declared the exhibition opened, and proceeded down the hall to see the exhibits, most importantly the first volume of the Domesday Book dating back to 1068... and had to pass me. She addressed me with " So why are you so keen on the exhibition that he could not wait for me to open it?" and I stammered something about not knowing that there would be an official opening. "Why shouldn't there be?" was her reply, " Anyway, success to your research." and was gone.

@rowuk I haven't done it since the comments began.

The Ambassador being the Beginners' Model at Olds, I don't expect they made anything but Bb instruments in that line. But the instruments being what they are - reliable, almost indestructible and yet cheap to get, many, many people have tried their hands at changing them into whatever pitch was required. I once even saw an Ab conversion - for a benighted guy who had started playing concert pitch in one of those German Lutheran trombone choirs, and did not want to learn transposing for whenever he was playing in a "normal" band...

@jolter You would be astonished to see what things Americans (and British!) can get up to... friends of mine in Wales have banded together as "The Heidelberger Boys", playing German oompah music (not Volksmusik!!) at all kids of venues - they eeven played a mid-July "Octoberfest" at a British Regimental Reunion!
https://www.facebook.com/thebavarianband/videos/407999127615120

@jolter It is a fact that rotaries have darker sounds than piston horns. That applies to piccs as well. So you could use a rotary picc very well on all of those high second trumpets in Baroque where a piston picc might accidentally cut through a piano by the first chair...
I agree that a C cornet would be an extrvaganza... with me (and I play a very wide spread of music), it would be the most unplayed instrument in my collection. I see a possible use in French symponic music of the mid-19th century, where many composers orchestrated for both trumpets and cornets, the trumpets - still valve- and clueless - for the signals, and the cornets for melody. Many of these cornet parts are originally written in C.
Rotary flugel - a real must if you want to play German Oompah music, as all the melody parts are written for a narrow-bore flugelhorn played with a trumpet mouthpiece (top C is quite common in those parts).

If you are really into Schilke trumpets, you will find the Adams flugels very, very, VERY different. But there is a flugelhorn whose sound - not the playing characteristics! - Adams tried to copy, and that is the Courtois 154. Fantastic horn; I've had mine for over thirty years now, and have never found one to match it (yes, I've played the 846, and I've tried two or three Adams, and i've had a couple of rotary flugels, and I've had to play the Strad, and I've test played a few vintage Couesnons; but none, really none matched the reliability and outstanding sound quality of the Courtois. Yes, in a very few situations, the Adams might have had the edge sound-wise; but it was so hard to get there whereas the Courtois - I feel that that horn just knows what I want to do, and does it for me. It's not for nothing that Sergej Nakariakov stayed faithful to Courtois for such a long time...

"My mother-in-law used to live just a stone's throw away." -
"What made her move?" -
"I think I hit her too often..."

@barliman2001 and one more...

@administrator Nicely played; but this is NOT the Vienna Philharmonic, but the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Public Radio playing... The Vienna Philharmonic sound like this

@curlydoc Might be a Buescher #12, with a quick-change to A.

@administrator You forgot one straight cornet for jazz and big band work, one pocket trumpet for travelling, one multi-pitch trumpet by Jaeger trumpets, one old banger for the football pitch, one to scare the wife with...

@kehaulani I did clarify in some threads; but since the bad hand injury which prompted my change from piano to trumpet (cut a nerve when putting my hand through a glass door), typing tires me, and I try to take the short route.

@rowuk Dear Robin, if you look closely, you will find that in all cases of locked threads, these were inactive for more than three years - no replies or comments during that period, thus cluttering up the site. But I don't like deleting threads - you never know when the content might come in handy. Thus, the contents are still available; and if someone has something to say about the topic, they are welcome to tell the admin or one of the mods to please open the thread again, or open a new one.
Why the "for obvious reasons"? Well, there are so many of these dormant threads that it gets extremely tedious writing an individual explanation. Only yesterday, I locked down a whopping 39 threads. The "locked" sign is just meant as a polite warning "old content, nothing new here."

@j-jericho If it's factory new, there should be at least three different leadpipes included. Usually, the buyer visits the factory and chooses which leadpipes they want...

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