Posts made by barliman2001

And one more in the same vein... An old lady in a cemetery asks an attendant, "Excuse me, where's Grave 15, Row A?" - "That's funny... first sneak away, and then can't find your way back!"

Two elderly ladies are sitting on a bench in a cemetery. Suddenly, one pulls out some cosmetics and begins making up her face. With a sneer, the other lady asks, "How old are you?" - "79" - "And you still bother about make-up?" Silence. Then the reply: "And how old are you?" - "84" - "And you still bother about going home??"

@administrator contemporacorner.com. It's in the original post.

@ssmith1226 Really nice, Steve!!

@bigdub Let's say "openings".

@dale-proctor Would you play trumpet with your nose?

@administrator Hammonds... I once played in a big band whose keyboarder was an instrument collector... for each gig, he brought an electric piano and at least three different Hammonds... and of course every one in the band had to help manhandling them out of the truck and onto the stage. Once, we played the afternoon dance at an Austrian wedding... the usual restaurant function room, as usual a late addition to the building with it's only access being a large double door near the kitchen. Stage nice and roomy, but at the other end of the room which could hold 100 people comfortably but (not uncommon at Austrian weddings) now was crammed with at least 200 packed tightly without proper aisles or anything. And we had to somehow squeeze all our equipment through; electric baby grand, three Hammonds, large drumset, all the amps and monitors and speakers... we ended up carrying the stuff at arm's length above the heads of the audience!

@kehaulani You were poting about playing songs. And this book is full of songs and melodies, sometimes ones one does not at once think of (as happened to me when Ivan gave it to me a week or so back.
And you can always give the hint to others.

@kehaulani Try Ivan's new book "Music 4 Fun". Great selection of songs and melodies for treble clef instruments.

@bigdub Can't be - no electric wiring anywhere. Must be an old-style petroleum hurricane lamp.

@mike-ansberry There is one link.

"Student, how would you define a Minor Second?" -
"Two clarinets in unison, sir."

@davidpaul It's just an instrument that really asks to be played yet isn't... due to the fact that it's only one cornet in a biggish herd (two Besson Internationals, one Besson Imperial, one Courtois, one Buescher Aristocrat...), if you want it, I can easily reclaim it from Votrubas, and we can do the deal... asking € 450 including international insured shipping. Votruba freshly serviced the horn, so it's ready to go. Or you can go directly to Votruba's website, and do the deal with them https://www.votruba-musik.at/musikinstrumente/gebrauchte-instrumente/trompeten-fluegelhoerner

@newell-post Buescher did make some oddly-wrapped cornets in the 1920s and 30s, sometimes under their student brand "Elkhart by Buescher"... like this one that I am currently selling through Votruba's shop in Vienna...
This one dates back to 1927.

(The police teddy bear is due to the fact that Votruba's are the sole supplier of instruments to the Vienna Police Orchestras).

Instrument is now sold.

Two trumpet players in Rome, in the only caffè possible!
barliman2001, left, and ssmith1226, right.

There is a guy out there who reworks stupid party sounds into music of gone eras... compare the original

@curlydoc I'll hunt out the newspaper...

@j-jericho There were three separate incidents. One, the Bach Strad C, was borrowed by a friend who needed it for a musical performance in Munich's Gärtnerplatztheater - his own C was a Ganter rotary, and you can't bring rotaries for Oklahoma. He had the Strad in the canteen, went to where clarinet player get their best notes from, and when he returned, the case wasn't there. Theatre insurance paid up and thus financed the Strad rotary which with most of the other instrument was stolen in one haul when our house in Ireland was burgled and stripped of almost all the contents. The miscreants even broke open the oil tank and stole our heating oil!
And the Votruba Profi was loaded into a van with all the other band instruments for a gig on a mountain top in Croatia, but the van never arrived there. Seems the original driver of the local van and a few cronies of his had pre-planned the coup. At any rate, we arrived at that mountain resort by cable car und were unable to play because we did not have a single instrument...

@adc Giving away instruments to deserving talents is a good idea. I recently donated a Besson Stratford trumpet, a King Tempo cornet and a Conn Director to a school orchestra in Bulgaria, together with a heap of mouthpieces. Since then, I am swamped with videos of the kids practising enthusiastically; and the orchestra is now much in demand by the civic authorities to give athmosphere to official functions...

Heavens, that's three instruments I forgot to list!!