@georgeb Votruba in Vienna have a pristine Olds Studio - original case, original mouthpiece and original paperwork - for € 950. I can vouch for this horn because it was mine until I exchanged it for a Recording...
https://www.votruba-musik.at/musikinstrumente/gebrauchte-instrumente/trompeten-fluegelhoerner
Bit of talking at the beginning, about how seriously they take music... and then...
@barliman2001 Just found "The City of the Village of Douglas" in Michigan... population 1,200...
@barliman2001 ... and there are fourteen townships called Douglas in the US. The largest of these is in Cochise County, Arizona, with a population of 17,000...
oh, and there's two Douglases in New Zealand, both with less than 500 inhabitants, and there is one...
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...asteroid of that name. I presume that recording came from there.
@bigdub Douglas Village is now part of Cork, Ireland.
Home office frustration...
The up-to-date muscle car for anti-vaxxers...
@bigdub So disappointing that those stormtroopers never hit anything!
@neal085 I don't know either of these instruments. But for a beginner, I would choose the narrower bore and the smaller mouthpiece. I started on a large bore B&H Sovereign 'bone, and it was hard work (even though I had thirty years of trumpet under my belt).
@bigdub for some reason? She had money. Lots of. Even bought - yes, bought! - Carnegie Hall for a concert...
@georgeb You should hear the B-side of this record... even worse, if possible.
@kehaulani Welcome to the Club of the Eye-Operated. Hope your surgeries weren't as painful as mine...
A tenor wanted to test the veracity of opera arias... so one night, he stood in the courtyard of his apartment complex and blasted out "Nessun Dorma". And it was true - no one did sleep!
@sessionaire I believe strongly in energetic work and Ortho-Bionomy. This kind of gentle massage has proved itself time and time again, the latest incidence being my recent eye trouble. I had a total ablation of the retina, resulting in 100% blindness in my right eye. When diagnosed, several doctors told me the retina was not only lifted off, but in shreds, and that even extensive restoration surgery would only result in that eye being able to distinguish light and dark. I had the surgery done - two operations, one of 4 hours, the other of 6 hours duration, both very painful, because you cannot do them under full anesthesia - and when I had left hospital, my wife (a fully qualified ortho-bionomy therapist beside being an opera singer www.reginaschoerg.art) began a set of treatments. Only yesterday, I saw my ophthalmologist again, and the exam showed that the ablated and torn retina is now whole again and fitting in its proper place, resulting in a sight power of 40%, and rising. The ophthalmologist was flabbergasted - "I know of no case of such a thing happening" and has asked me to allow a group of students to see me. So now I am the wonder of the age, due to a relatively new treatment. Why not try it yourself?
I can only laud Dutch hospitals... they have discarded the Central Kitchen idea and have installed a working kitchen, manned 24/7, for every ward... when I was down in a small-town hospital last year with severe septicaemia, the nurses on my ward found out that it was my birthday that day, so they persuaded the ward chef to prepare a special dinner for me... roast chicken fillets with a nice rich gravy, roast potatoes and vegetable skewers, with a crisp salad... and as a dessert, all the staff - eight people! - escorted an enormous ice cream creation with fresh fruit, and sang Happy Birthday for me... they really made me feel at home there. Thank you.
By comparison, the English hospital I fled from the week before served cold porridge for every breakfast, followed fifteen minutes later by cold tea and, another fifteen minutes later, some cold burnt toast...
@administrator
A) It is nothing like a didgeridoo - which, in fact, is just a wooden tube hollowed out by termites, without a proper mouthpiece (the end of the tube is rounded off for comfort)
b) Technically, it is a cornet (because of the conical shape of the bore).
And, to finish off, it is a Tibetan temple trumpet, the use of which is now prohibited due to Chinese rule in Tibet. Any such trumpets seized are sold off to collectors in the West...
