Posts made by barliman2001

@BigDub It's the high G FOR ME. Other players may have other needs. But for my kind of playing, it's perfect. And it's slightly easier to control than a full picc.

@Tobylou8 Actually, it's not a cornopean, but a stop-gap device: It's a right-handed French horn, to be played by a cornet or flugelhorn player in bands where they could not get their hands on proper French horn players... they are still being made!
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@BigDub I once had a spate of piccs... starting off with an old Selmer, then changing to a Besson Kanstul, then adding a Stomvi Elite, then a Votruba Pro... another, younger Selmer... and then I happened upon a Scherzer high G. And that one very soon told me that for me and my kind of playing, A/Bb picc was simply wasted effort. All the Baroque pieces that I was playing on A picc suddenly became much more manageable when I switched to the Scherzer high G... no more sharps anywhere... and then I got my claws on an old Selmer high G out of the estate of Maurice André... and that was one revelation. It beat the Scherzer and all the other piccs by such a margin that I sold every single one of them.

@SSmith1226
In Vienna, where public conveniences are rare and far between, a man had an urge... no proper location anywhere. When he tried a street corner and a tree in a park, he was chased away. Finally, in desperation, he entered a doctor's surgery. Claiming urgency, he was ushered in at once and explained that he just couldn't... Seconds later, the doc watched an extraordinary performance... "Why," asked he the guy, "did you say you couldn't?" - "Oh, I can," says the guy, "but only if they give me a chance!"

OK, that's Easter Sunday done for this year. Went very well, except for a massive hiccup in the violas - one triolic solo melody, in a slow part, and they make such an enormous hash of it that the conductor has to SING the viola part... and of course, despite all promises to the contrary, the conductor pulled out yet another surprise piece at the beginning of Mass... Haec Dies by Caspar Ett, with the trumpet set in Ab, of all things... no rehearsal, just go... well, the trumpets did it, and were invited to return next year.

Now, yesterday we had our only rehearsal for Easter Sunday. The conductor, when questioned beforehand, had firmly promised, "it's Schubert Mass #3 in Bb and Mozart Ave Verum (which has no trumpets), and nothing else." Accordingly, went there with just my Ganter Bb rotary and a deep cup mouthpiece, as I was supposed to play 2d chair. So far, so good. End of Schubert rehearsal, conductor hands out additional music with the comment, "you should be able to do this as well quite easily." One look... Handel, Messiah, Hallelujah... original pitch... scream, shout, throw grenades... call in the Cavalry (which refused to climb the 84 step staircase to the organ loft...)... tried to do Handel first trumpet part on Bb rotary with flugel mouthpiece... failed miserably, sounded like a goose with hiccups... got out the Selmer high-G at home... that's better...

@BigDub In a local paper: "The inventor of Autocorrect just pissed away. He was an anthole. Restaurant in pieces."

@edfitzvb Mine starts at 10...

@Newell-Post I've got his e-mail and will send him a note. Haven't heard from him for some time, though, and he was living in a particularly lively corner of Africa...

@Dr-GO Over here in Austria, Easter services tend to be a) Catholic and b) orchestral masses. For this coming Easter Sunday, I'm booked into St. Peter's in Vienna for Schubert Mass No. 3 in Bb, St. Mary Magdalene for Mozart Organ Solo, and for Easter Monday it's Otto Nicolai Mass in D, with Caspar Ett's Haec Dies" thrown in for good measure (which is for trumpet in Ab!!)

Well, after mourning TM and my hard-earned status as fortissimo user, I'm here.

@Doodlin In a straight cornet, my Buescher 236 is unbeatable. Have been playing it in a variety of settings for several years now, and haven't found anything to beat it. And in Shepherd's Crook cornets, my Besson International reigns supreme...!

@Kujo20 Gerd Dowids in Munich and Votruba in Vienna only make their own.