Posts made by barliman2001

Ever since I suffered a rather catastrophic retinal ablation during an orchestra rehearsal, I've heard about many other players with similar problems. I've mentioned the fact to my ophthalmic surgeon (internationally renowned guy and comeback trumpet player) and he was unaware that there was any connection between trumpet playing and eye trouble, was even unaware whether there was any research out there. He told me that enhanced eye pressure through exertion was harmless and that there had been research showing that women in labour had enormous eye pressure values without any long-term effects. I reminded him of the fact that a trumpet player would much more often play a double high C than give birth... and he agreed to look into the matter, asking me to collect personal experiences to start off from. Anyone here with eye trouble is invited to send their stories to me privately, and I will forward them in anonymised form.

About a year ago, I suffered a catastrophic retinal ablation during an orchestra rehearsal and had to have eye surgery, resulting in several operations and permanent damage to my right eye. Recently, I've found out that several of my trumpet friends have had similar experiences, and I've talked to my ophthalmic surgeon. He is one of the best ophthalmic surgeons world-wide, and a come-back trumpet player. He found that there might be a necessity to look at the combination of trumpet-induced enhanced eye pressure and eye damage, and that there has been no relevant research so far. He is quite interested in this problem now and would like to get in contact with trumpet players who have experienced similar problems. Anyone interested is asked to kindly provide some kind of address or contact so that they can be included in the research programme. This means ANY TRUMPET PLAYER with eye problems that were not there before taking up the instrument. I can assure you that this surgeon - Professor Thomas Neuhann MD, an ophthalmic surgeon in the seventh generation - and his team will explore all the information with utmost care to privacy and will in most cases be able to either eliminate or alleviate existing conditions.

@mike-ansberry There were instances when even he missed... I attended a concert in the late 1980s when he had just been contracted by Scherzer to use their rotary picc... at a time when the Scherzer picc did not have the #4 valve pad to the left thumb... Even though he was still at the height of his playing, it was a concert that did not do him justice. He very soon abandoned the Scherzer again.

Checking whether trumpet valves are tight is pure, unbridled pop-ulism.

@dr-go Matter of fact is that he started out in wind bands (in a coal miner's band, on cornet) and only later switched to classical because that is where the money was in his time.

@stumac The original version had two different slides for #4, one as described by you, the other one with the big loop. Mine has both slides.

I don't think his playing in this rather well-hidden French TV programme is robotic...

From 23:01 onwards, he is playing the G picc he left to me at his passing...

@mike-ansberry said in What are you listening to?:

I think Maurice Andre is a robot. I saw him years ago. He played an incredibly strenuous program, then came back out for encore after encore. The man is a machine. Seems like he never tires.

By this time, he's a dead robot. RIP.

Just happened onto this clip... Maurice André with a very different repertoire!

@ssmith1226 Happy to have been of assistance.

Really nice, Steve!!

You might browse horn-u-copia.net's list of logos... https://www.horn-u-copia.net/Reference/logos.php.

Is it because so many dumb people want to ring a bell for TR...?

@tjcombo A blonde clarinet player friend of mine has been badgering me for days to get instructions as to how to properly fold a cardboard box for her imminent relocation... She sent photographs of the unfolded boxes... I sent descriptions, I drew diagrams into her pics, it went back and forth about fifteen times for three days... then, silence. Oh, she's finally grasped it. Yesterday, she sent me a message - "I've now managed to fold and fill the first box. Should I tape it shut?"
When I posted this story on FB, in the "Trumpets, Trumpeters, Trumpeting" group, it was deleted as "not according to the gravity of trumpet playing..."
I left that group because a group that does not understand a joke (especially one that has been happening in the real world) is not for me.

Copy of a post by Tine Thing Helseth, yesterday 14.35 on Facebook:
"Life is full of ups and downs
Some weeks ago I was diagnosed with cancer. This means that I have to take a time-out for a while. I feel extremely well taken care of by wonderful doctors and nurses 🥰
It’s going to be some tough months ahead with heavy treatments, but in the end it’ll all be worth it
I can’t wait to be back in business in the spring!"

Wishing her a speedy and full recovery.

@butcha Congratulations!! Well done!

@rowuk I second that opinion.

Just came across this 120-year old recording...

@bigdub Finally, police asked a bystanding viola player: "Can you tell us something?" - "What about?"