Posts made by barliman2001

@Bruce I've seen the x-rays - no doubt about it. No roots any more. As to gums/jaw - did not know the exact terminology. And yes, I know about the risks.

Just got this message from my friends at allegro optical - the Musicians' Optician:
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Welcome, and enjoy yourself!

@ROWUK said in HELP! Wobbly teeth...:

@barliman2001 I have been there and after 4 years, am almost back to where I was before. In my case, an accident knocked the 4 front jaw teeth loose beyond repair. In addition, that started a chain reaction that ultimately resulted in me losing all of my teeth. There seems to be bacteria in the mouth just waiting for trauma.
Dentures were the first step and I learned all about dental cremes and other methods to "glue" them in. I learned that a cup of hot coffee dissolved those dental adhesives, so my diet changed during that time too. As the dentures were pretty much the same as the teeth preceding them, my playing was stable. After the gums all healed (6 months), implants were the solution. After that, the geometry of the mouth changed only by microns, but it still was a very dramatic change and it took a year to get back on track. Fortunately, that was during the Covid pandemic so I did not disappoint any of the people that book me.

If you have any questions, let me know.

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Dear friends,

for the last few months, I have a growing problem: My two central lower incisor teeth have become wobbly. Very much so - in fact so much that it heavily impacts my playing. Most of the practising I do now is on trombone.
My dentist says that due to continuous pressure from the front (you know what THAT means) the tooth roots have decayed so much that those teeth are not anchored in the gum any more and only hold on by the skin of their teeth... Implants or a bridge are not an option at this time as my insurance will only pay for it in two years' time.
So, I now need some kind of temporary solution that will allow me to play to some extent while preventing my teeth from unlawfully absconding... any ideas?

A set of wine and water communion vessels (18th century, silver gilt) that were supposed to have been stolen by marauding Soviet troops but which I, during a job photographing the whole church inventory of a small parish church, re-discovered in a cardboard box behind the loo...

Our family teddy bear Wendelin who came into the family in the early 1890s... sitting in the rocking swan my grandfather made for me... I used to sit in there in a suit of plastic armor, listening to Lohengrin...

Our tortoise trying to escape during the construction of our house...

Well, the topic been abundantly discussed now, so I am closing this thread - to avoid pistols at dawn.

@barliman2001
And that is how the orchestra looked like, in the Teatro Civico Salvatore Cicero in Cefalu... (here with Brahms' Double Concerto)

My wife in her role of the old b4st4ard in her solo programme "Für Dich, mein Schatz" (ssmith1226 was at the world premiere...) ... here's a few bits out of it... next performance on 3 August...

A viola player wants to escape his instrument and all its results, so he decides to learn some new instruments... goes into the music shop, looks around and says,
"I want that long harp, the red trumpet and the accordion." -
"You a viola player?" - "Yes, why?" -
"You can have the hatstand and the fire extinguisher, but the radiator stays!"

@JWM If ROWUK says so, it usually is true.

Just happened upon this Norman Rockwell painting... I am sure someone can identify the trumpet!

It's that special time of the year again, and I am heading north with a small party from Brass Band Vienna to join Coronation Brass for their umpteenth participation in the European Folklore Festival in Bitburg, Germany... four days with four gigs each, no music beforehand, it's sit down and play... sight-reading old favourites and the whole time-honoured cheeseboard, with a few older test pieces thrown in for good measure... this year, the line-up of participations has more brass-related interest: Several big bands, a New Orleans-style brass band, couple of oompah outfits and the local ruffians who have evolved into a large wind orchestra of some quality... Anyone in the area from 12 July onwards should head there and get their ears full of brass playing of all sorts... meet Coronation Brass and have a few free beers with them - Bitburg, after all, is a small town next to a big, big brewery... they say the brewery employs more people than are living in the town...

@Dr-GO They can't be found on the web - that is for certain.

@TrueToneGoldWash On my collection of Bueschers - a #12 with Bb to A rotor valve, a #9 and a 243 - that they work best with cheapo Arnold & Sons Bach clones if you shorten the shank by about 4 millimetres and take off the outside silver plate on the shank - or use an Arnold & Sons cornet mouthpiece with a suitably altered converter. And Arnold & Sons mouthpieces (sometimes marketed as Stoelzel) are reliable clones of good Bach mouthpieces, at ridiculously low prices...

https://www.thomann.de/gb/mouthpieces_for_trumpets.html?manufacturer[]=Arnolds %26 Sons&gk=BLBMBT&sp=solr&category[]=BLBMBT&cme=true&filter=true

https://www.thomann.de/gb/mouthpieces_for_cornets.html?manufacturer[]=Arnolds %26 Sons&gk=BLBMBK&sp=solr&category[]=BLBMBK&cme=true&filter=true

Unaltered Arnold & Sons mouthpieces work very well wth all my other horns... Courtois Balanced, Olds Recording, Gaudet C, Courtois D...

So now we can close this ancient thread?

@administrator You can always find me in Vienna - quite near to Prague.