Posts made by barliman2001

@SSmith1226
Kids at school comparing their Christmas presents.
Ed replies, a bit bored, "A football, a stone sling and an airgun. The usual." -
"Why, "the usual"?" his classmates ask.
"Well, my father's a glazier."

Scottish gangsters were easily caught after a smash-and-grab raid.
Why?
They came back for the brick.

@neal085 By the way, I prefer poached. That way, the egg keeps its integrity while displaying a soft outside. And the inside is thoroughly yellow!

@Trumpetsplus You are welcome! The one thing I don't want is people who just don't care.

@Comeback thanks

@GeorgeB thanks

My best buy ever was a Besson International Cornet which I watched being put into a garbage bin... pulled it out, asked the guy whether I could have it. He said, You're welcome to it, and I walked off. Had it restored for a mere 75 Deutschmarks (now approx. € 30) and have been playing it ever since. Last time someone offered to buy it I was tempted with three thousand dollars... and declined. You don't sell a good cornet.

Suddenly, after a longish wait, I found "Global Moderator" beside my name... well, quite a few people here know about me from TM, but for all those who don't or who did not really care at the time, here's all about me. I don't have a fancy website - more or less because I'm busy updating my wife's website. But here's everything of interest about me:
I'm a 53-year-old Bavarian (well, German national, but I prefer my local tribe) living in Austria, near Vienna. Married to an opera singer (www.reginaschoerg.com). By trade, I am a historian.
My musical past consisted of children's choir, then the local church choir and finally, after studying voice with several renowned teachers, soloist with the Passau Cathedral Choir and the Dublin Guinness Choir. From age four, I played piano - did not really like it, but was good at it.
Until I accidentally put my hand through a glass door and cut a nerve. Fortunately, the same year I had won my first trumpet in a raffle... went on to Kinneil Band in Scotland (current British National Champions!), then back to Germany. Seven years in Ireland, playing with a number of brass bands and the Greystones Symphony, eventually conducting this orchestra. Since then, Principal Trumpet of the one and only Vienna Klezmer Orchestra (www.klezmerorchester.at) and webmaster for Munich-based Markus Fluhr Big Band (www.bbmf.de).
So far, I have performed on trumpet in twelve different countries and a total of 97 orchestras or bands (usually as a sub). I have been known to pack the car at a moment's notice and drive several days just for one interesting gig...
My finest moment in history? When I walked into a Vienna coffee house and they had a clarinet converted into a table lamp!

Feel free to contact me - I'm sure to answer.

What did the trumpet player want who continued to practice from 12 midnight to 4 am every night? -

A cheap price for the house next door!

@Niner That story came up already once or twice on TM. I've researched further, and found that the CEH research found the lead by boring deep into the core of the mouthpieces, not on the surface, and then in minute quantities. No trumpet player ever has been found to suffer from any il-effects of lead (which, by the way, is easy to detect). CEH has been known to sue companies for supposed breaches of health issues.

@mdwilliams Well, there is the Stomvi Mouthpiece System which I've extolled regularly on TM RIP. In the basic configuration, you get one rim of your choice, two shanks (trumpet and cornet or flugel) and eight different cups, ranging from FL - v-shaped and intended for flugel via A to F, F being the shallowest and best suited for screaming or picc work. And with that system (you can buy additional shanks and rims and cups) you can try out any mouthpiece combination you want and yet speedily (and inexpensively) return to your standard configuration.

@Niner For example, a Buescher trumpet would be type # 9 without the Bb/A valve, and be designated #12 with the valve. The valve did not have a separate serial number.

@Niner You are correct as to York horns. With Buescher, the extra valve gave a different type number.

The A slides can come in handy, though... I once had to play an Easter Sunday gig in church... Mozart Organ Solo Mass (trumpet in C). What the conductor had not mentioned was that for Holy Communion, the choir and orchestra were to perform the Haec Dies by Caspar Ett, which asks for a trumpet in A... Luckily, I never go to gigs without some extra hardware "for emergencies". Usually, when using the C, this emergency hooter is a 1920s Buescher with a Bb-to-A switch valve... one turn of the screw, and Caspar Ett was performed by the trumpet asked for.

@robcs Well, mine is exactly the same. I had a friend test play it as well - pro player with 25 years of playing in London West End musicals under his belt - and he wanted to take if off me for a whopping € 1,500 at once. Did not get it. I've had a number of C trumpets in my time - I started off with a Bach Strad 239, then had a Strad rotary, a Stomvi Elite C, a 1940 Couesnon, a Votruba rotary C (which I only play-tested for a friend of mine who wanted it to top a friend's gold-plated Lechner - which it did), but the Gaudet is the one that fits me best. It came with a #1 Tilz mouthpiece which suited it very well indeed, but for me it does best with my regular Bach Megatone 1C, or with my Stomvi Mouthpiece System on 1 B configuration.
As to being an intermediate/student horn... I've recently got info from another player who used to visit the Courtois works pretty regularly that Courtois did not produce different lines per se. That's why there is the Courtois stamp on the valve block. They produced the basic trumpet (i.e. without additional triggers and rings and the like) and then had their quality control guys go over the hooters. Anything that was not 110% perfect (little blobs in the lacquer, minute scratches and the like) was then branded Gaudet, while the perfect horns got the AC pinky ring and were branded Courtois.
As to 3rd valve rings - mine has an underslung one so as to make space on the upperside of valve #3 for a lyre holder.

@FranklinD Well, that was before the Schengen treaty which made almost all of the EU into one common travel area, at a time when all teenagers were suspected of being revolutionary hippies...

@FranklinD Just for the fun of it - trying out whether it would work. I had my passport with me anyway.

https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/people/blaze-hit-bo-ness-band-are-now-britain-s-number-one-champions-1-5004652?fbclid=IwAR0pWmBaPjo14zL61LiUJtkqgoK_s_mAklA60RndO2siWn-NzKy4URgCx5g

At any rate, gone are the days when anything went through... I remember flying from Ireland to London Heathrow using an expired German target shooting club membership card as ID...