Posts made by barliman2001

@administrator Lip buzzing a melody might not be helpful directly, but it can keep the embouchure in shape when you can't practice.

@administrator Only four or five months ago, I scored an almost pristine 1938 recording - one of the few horns I've ever had where I've had the feeling that the horn knows beforehand what I'm trying to do, and simply does it...

@newell-post Their homepage has no indication that anything's up; but that hasn't been renovated since 2003...

@dr-go Won't ban you for that.

@ssmith1226 Really good, Steve! Congratulations!

@dr-go Thanks for the flowers!

Confirmation of what we knew anyway!!

@j-jericho Quite a few of these posts have pre-dated joining times (can be done if you manipulate the server TB is on. If these spam entries would have been on the system on the date they show, I would have found them previously). I am quite certain that the administrator has been hacked, and that someone else is using his system to get spam across.

I have noticed that since the Administrator moved to South America, there has been a sudden upsurge of spam (61 instances within one night!)from Spanish-speaking perpetrators. It seems probable that the Administrator has been hacked. Please take your measures accordingly. I am trying to get all the spam threads removed and banned asap, but as the single moderator remaining active, it is arduous. If you have any means of contacting the administrator by means outside of this channel, please do so.

@curlydoc No.

I can only counter this with how Maurice André once described trumpet playing to me:
"Playing se trompette is like singing, just wisout a sore throat."

@dr-go Blowing my warm air... how awful!
Reminds me of the Scotsman who took his wife to the doctor's because of her tummy pains... when the doc said, "Oh, its just wind," the Scotsman blew up: "Jist wind?? It was jist wind that blew down the Tay Bridge!!"

@davidpaul For your own sake, the trumpet should be weaned... it needs its own, comfortably padded bed, with a nightlight and a cozy blanket. The danger of it being pressed down between the two of you is much too real...

@dale-proctor All the best for the new house, Dale!

I distrust anything that asserts itself so aggressively. So I don't really believe in American Made - looks suspiciously like a B&F stencil. Some of those were shipped to the US without water keys, to justify saying "American Made". An instrument entirely made in the US would have been able to boast "American made throughout". And anything boasting Superior Quality usually isn't...

@stumac said in Jamie’s Trumpet Gallery:

No prices given. but if I have to ask the price I cannot afford it. Regards, Stuart.

There are just two prices: Too expensive and too overrated.

@fels said in Which trumpet to buy?:

@flugelgirl

I have opined before that you may or may not find your idea of the best horn -- you have to be patient and it will find you

Thirty or forty years ago I was playing a Selmer Paris and wanted something better....I went to our local music store and played several "pro' horns. I selected a Bach 37. Payed it for the next 20 to 25 years. A Schilke X3 was available at the store and that has been why horn since. I still play the Bach, but do not like its weight. I bought my Courois Flugelhorn unseen on Craigs List. There are better (cosmetically) flugels out there, but I can make the Courtois sound the way I like -- it found me.

Courtois instruments seem to have a way of finding one... my 154R flugel came my way after a trade fair in Munich, when the Courtois people had a few more cases left over than they could possibly fit in their truck. I was hanging about there and admiring the way they tried to solve the problem, and when I asked whether I could help them in any way, they just told me to "take my pick". And so I walked away with a brand-new case with - as I found out later - a brand spanking new Courtois 154R flugel in it - for free. Haven't looked at another flugel since then - it's that good. Few years later, Votruba's in Vienna told me they had taken in a Courtois Balanced in part-exchange for a new instrument. Would not sell as it was cosmetically bad, so they let me have it for € 150... it's my main big band axe now. And only recently an old friend told me he's thinning his herd and letting go another almost unplayed Courtois Balanced - he likes "heavy" horns, the harder the better - and that will be mine as soon as I pay the postage...

@newell-post said in Which trumpet to buy?:

Many years ago, I got to meet Bill Chase before one of their concerts, along with a group of other people. As part of the Q&A somebody asked him what horns they used. As I recall, the answer was: 1 Schilke (for Bill), 1 Connstellation, 1 Benge, and one I don't remember. Maybe a Committee or a Selmer something or other. In any event, that trumpet-centric group had 4 top-notch players that all used different horns. There isn't one right answer.

There is only the right answer for the right player.