Posts made by barliman2001

@Dale-Proctor said in Phony players:

@BigDub said in Phony players:

On the show, Hogan’s Heroes, Colonel Klink Would occasionally play the violin, much to the discomfort of those who happened to be in the same room.
He looked rather convincing, but if you looked closely, there weren’t even any strings on the instrument!

Interesting factoid - Werner Klemperer’s father was Otto Klemperer, the famous orchestral conductor.

Even more interesting - quite a number of the actors in that show were either of Jewish descent or had lost family and friends due to Nazi terror.

For quality at really cheap prices, there are the A&S (Arnold &Sons) copies of Bach mouthpieces, sometimes marketed under the Stoelzel brand. They come at around $12 each, and are really good.

That set is just a bad copy of the Stomvi mouthpiece system...

@Kehaulani Good for you. But now keep up the good work, or she'll fall back into it worse than before.

@Seth-of-Lagos This type of peach is called a "vineyard peach" here in Austria, and is a much sought-after commodity.

@Kehaulani I'm going on the principle that he has been consistent in all his postings so far.

Moshe,

I am not taking up anything religious here. But I want to offer some practical help.
You say you neep some form of transport to get yourself and your racing vehicle (the electric wheelchair) to the venue. Can I help you by contributing to the cost of such transport? And perhaps, if a few more members contributed, we might get this problem out of the way in a few moments. I suggest that you create a crowndfunding site, and publish that here.

We've got 10/10 cloud cover here...

An elderly lady's husband passed away suddenly, leaving her a very large fortune. She started "having her time" again, had herself rejuvenated by surgery, botoxed and all the fibs of modern beauty culture, got herself a toy boy and the like.
Fast living uses up energy, so one day, she found herself in front of the Pearly Gates and rang the bell. St. Peter opened the gates a bit, glanced through the opening and slammed the gates shut again. She rang again, crying.
This time St. Peter opened the gate fully and came out to her, saying, "Oh, madam, I'm so sorry... I did not recognize you!"

How do you know a drummer is at the door? -
The cat flap opens at 2 and 4.

@Kehaulani said in Opinions on Valve Oils?:

@Dr-GO said in Opinions on Valve Oils?:
Then PLEASE stop quibbling. No one else on this thread is quibbling. Can we put some oil on your quibble so we can move on with this thread? Thanks.

You are 100 correct. I got this thread mixed up with another and I'm truly sorry for the agrivation and time spent. I've been communicating with a friend most of the day who is giving up on living and my mind's just in the wrong place. Again, sorry.

No need to be sorry if you are helping a friend in need. Thanks for caring, Kehaulani.

Niiiceee... if only there weren't so many mouthpiece pouches covering the horn!

Apart from regular products, it might be interesting to research into what people use in emergencies if they don't have the right product available... I once saw an oompah band player whose valves began sticking unscrew all the valves, pour about half a pint of beer into the valve casings, reassemble and continue...

Most of those responsible for TV shows and motion pictures just don't care about these things, or don't have a clue, or both. I was once in a casting for a DHL ad where the casting agency deliberately wanted a homely-looking trumpet player to perform "Ain't no mountain high enough" as a finish to a clip showing all the way a trumpet takes from a factory in backwoods China to the trumpet player in Vienna.
I won the casting - but did not get to make the ad, because DHL had by then found "the perfect looking guy" amongst their own workforce, and wanted me to show the guy how to simulate playing to a playback recording.
I walked out on them.

More important, the position of conductor was unknown at the time. Orchestras were led from the first violin or from the cembalo., and were much smaller than the mostrous apparatus of "Le Concert Spirituel". A realistic rendition of Handel's Water Music comes from Berlin's Academy for Old Music...

@administrator said in Wonder which Valve Oil they use.:

I'm curious about a few things.

1. How do we know they played with no vibrato in the Baroque era? I mean, we don't have recordings.
2. How do we know they ballooned their notes like they are doing in the video?

You are right, there are no recordings. But people wrote instead and closely described what was to be done. Almost every other musician of any note produced tutorials for his students: Friedrich Wilhelm Reiche, for example, could not just say, "Go and get yourself an Arban copy". For one, Arban would not be born for a couple of centuries; and for the second, printed books were still rare and expensive. So people like J.S. Bach produced things like the "Piano Book for Anna Magdalena Bach" which in their original version not only contained music, but lots of additional advice, thus showing us the way the composer wanted the pieces to be played.

The orchestra is called "Le Concert Spirituel", under Hervé Niquet, one of the more hard-core "original sound" ensembles. In some of their performances, they have gone to the length of performing not only on copies of master-made period instruments, but on faithful copies of what the average professional musician would have had available... imagine, say, the Vienna Philharmonic playing on student violins for $ 100 apiece, and the trumpet section on Chinese Larks... #
"Le concert spirituel" have also been known to care for their instruments "the old way", greasing trumpet slides with pure goose grease or (even worse) lard...

The Good Lord told Man, "I am going to create women for you, beautiful, obedient, and submissive. And you will find them in all four corners of the world."
And then he made the world round, and laughed.

Actually, the Latin version has not "corners" but the word plagis which can mean anything from "net" to "hit" to "foundation". And that in itself is just a translation from Hebrew kânâph meaning "uttermost extremity" or "wingtip". So you could possibly imagine a bird-shaped Earth, with the peoples gathering from the uttermost wingtips of the bird (somewhat like the giant turtle in Terry Pratchett's writings).

I think everyone has an opinion on valve oils, and it is a fact that different instruments need different oils. My Besson baritone would leak with a thin oil like Al Cass, but would play nicely (for an hour so) with Hetman's #3.Which means that in a big band gig - using my Courtois Balanced Bb, Courtois 154R flugel and Buescher 263 cornet, I've got four bottles of valve oil around: One bottle of C.G. Conn Synthetic (I know they aren't on the market any more, but shortly before the oil was discontinued, I got myself two dozen bottles as reserve), for the Balanced. One Yamaha Light (for the flugel, because it is the newest instrument at 29 years), one Hetman's #2 for the cornet - and one Al Cass as a spare, if one of my colleagues has forgotten his... he's a repeat offender. But as he's got to pay a round of after-gig drinks every time, he's welcome to it.