Posts made by barliman2001

@Dr-GO Get into contact with allegro optical in Meltham, UK. They specialize in musicians' glasses and are able to provide you with variable varifocals to your needs. All employees there are musicians themselves and know exactly what to do. I just got my first set from them - fabulous. Previously, I had the problem that after a cataract operation, my eye accommodation was gone. So I had to use reading glasses for the music, but then the conductor was way out of focus and sometimes, even hard to see. Now, that problem is gone (no, I haven't switched to viola). I can read the music clearly and comfortably, and the conductor stays in focus as well.

@N1684T At this time, I've been through four hospitals in three countries, starting off with Huddersfield Royal Infirmary in the UK (which is a place to avoid - not the UK, but the hospital)), the ordeal beginning on 15 March...

There's life in the auld dog yet!

I agree with the admin - after going off the rails and into undesirable directions, name calling and personal abuse, I am finally locking this thread. Enjoy.

Update for everyone: I'll probably be out of hospital some time next week.

Composer? Conductor!

Hi,

just wanted to tell you that I'm out of the running for the moment, urgent medical matters occupying my attention to the full (no, it's NOT Corona). I'll be back.

No strain? Just look at the contortions of his face...

@J-Jericho said in Don’t be THAT GUY!:

@barliman2001 said in Don’t be THAT GUY!:

@flugelgirl said in Don’t be THAT GUY!:

@tjveloce said in Don’t be THAT GUY!:

My band leader was on that flight! She’s the one you refer to.

-tj

Like I said, the music world is small! Word gets around fast!

I thought it might have been KT...

Be nice....!

It is the only person I am incapable of being nice to.

@flugelgirl said in Don’t be THAT GUY!:

@tjveloce said in Don’t be THAT GUY!:

My band leader was on that flight! She’s the one you refer to.

-tj

Like I said, the music world is small! Word gets around fast!

I thought it might have been KT...

@Kehaulani That's more or less a new take on that old Nazi German joke... a guy goes to his town hall and tells the civil servant he wants to change his name. "Well, let's hear your name to see whether a change is permissible." - "Adolf Shittyfuck" - "Oh yes, I can understand you don't want that name changed. But our Führer has made such a change possible. What would you like your new name to be?" - "Albert Shittyfuck".

An Austrian comic paper today had recommendations for the gourmet in the times of Coronavirus... "Ten recipes for pasta with toilet paper". Things like "Boil pasta, rinse and dry. Mix in half-square inch bits of toilet paper, and sprinkle with hand sanitizer."

Definitely of Russian origin. The water key is normal size, so that is an indicator of how tiny it is. Rotary cornet for the discant voice of Russian military music (which still, to this day, distinguishes between cornet and trumpet parts, the cornet parts being the top parts sometimes reaching far above the staff).
Harbin, by the way, was at one time the administrative centre for the Chinese Eastern Railway, a Russian-built and -owned extension of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Harbin in fact was a Russian city transplanted into what is now China, had a large Russian naval base complete with naval orchestra and several ship's bands as well as a navy-owned musical instruments factory that stamped their instruments with the name of the town and a serial number. Very few of these instruments survive nowadays.
After the 1917 revolution, Harbin was cut off from the evolving Soviet Union and became a long-lasting Russian Imperial enclave, only fading away in the late 1930s.
Congratulations for having such an instrument in at least optically good condition!

Two Scotsmen are having a posh meal in an expensive restaurant. At the end of the meal, one of them is heard calling for the bill for both of them.
The newspaper headline next day?

VENTRILOQUIST FOUND MURDERED

Electronic name for a leader of the orchestra: Semiconductor.

@grune said in Instrument Maintenance:

@barliman2001 that's an enviable collection for any serious player. which is your favourite?

Every single one, depending on the purpose. I've got a wonderful 1950s Courtois Balanced for jazz and big band work, a #7 Benge for anything chamber music/brass quintet, a really nice Buescher Aristocrat for larger orchestral stuff... even runs down to a Conn International that's perfect for carnival/mardi gras work because some previous owner had it lacquered blue and enamelled with a drunken vulture... the one very special favourite amongst trumpets would be a Selmer high-G picc that I inherited from Maurice André.

For me, the links still don't work.

Actually, it's two flugelhorns (or, rather, one flugel and one rotary Kuhlohorn) and three piccs...

I've recently straightened up the collection by getting rid of my last two really playable rotaries - a Hermann Ganter custom Bb (listed here: https://www.votruba-musik.at/gebrauchte-instrumente/trompeten-fluegelhoerner.php) and a Gerd Dowids four-valve Eb/D. They were being played too rarely.

@Comeback Don't worry - three trumpets an two cornets is only the Stage 1 of N+1 Disease (N being the number of instruments you have..). When you're in my shoes, with 29 trumpets and cornets, two trombones and two euphonia, you get to realize that cleaning is thoroughly overrated...