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Sorry that your options are limited. Good luck.

@administrator It's always on the first full weekend of July - see you then.

The problems with ChatGPT have not even begun to surface.

Already it is being used to create literature.

The literature ChatGPT creates is mind numbing in its mediocrity.

I am put in mind of speech writers that teach students to use various tricks of speech that appear to be dynamic and yet they amount to a series of fireworks that carry the audience with them and yet they say nothing of substance.

These are the tricks that messers Adolph Hitler and Joseph Goebbles used with great effect to win over a population and take them into a place nobody should inhabit.

ChatGPT is a tool that is correct but it is a tool that sounds a death Nell to creativity.

It should be used as the tool it is and overseen and controlled by people who have knowledge experience and the capability of logical thinking.

I see the death of individualism in ChatGPT and the echoes of George Orwells 1984 in its potential.

Similar to 1984 newspeak I see a contraction of grammar and vocabulary in ChatGPT and the common belief of how wonderful ChatGPT is fills me with dread.

The modern idiom of AI pervades society such that only applications for work phrased in elementary forms are acceptable, only certain candidates are allowed to be employed, only certain phrases are allowed to be uttered, only certain thoughts are allowed to be held, only certain statements are allowed to be made.

Dumbing down of society is now at an end and the more pervasive and more serious dumbing up of society is being forced upon us.

I see factories selling via the internet, AI taking over all thinking, I see whole sectors of society being reduced to poverty.

The only work that people will be offered is hand work making things like garments and fishing rods or working the land.

We have taken a rural society with everyone living in poverty and through an industrial revolution made everyones lives better, living in riches.

And now through AI and computers we are set to take everyones jobs away from them by ending the reason to employ people.

What will the result be.

It holds nothing more than a return to a rural life with everyone living once more in poverty.

@Dale-Proctor Well done!

@flugler Nice offer; but I want that special cornet and none else...

@administrator We would be happy to donate some to Portugal - they are fighting wildfires there...

@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.

The drummer's not too bad, either.

@barliman2001 It's an easy transposition - up a major 3rd. You could also just write it out and make your own part. Something to do on the train. Not too many notes in the Brahms for trumpets. I always played C trpt in my career as an orchestral trumpeter. Up a step is even easier. I've worked hard learning how to transpose at sight so it's automatic now. All the different transpositions. Wagner, for ex., calls for trumpets in different keys sometimes changing every few bars.

@barliman2001 Interesting. Thanks for the information

And here is a very short soundbite (from Wood Notes)

https://www.facebook.com/regina.schorg/videos/1462815754629587/?comment_id=320098674453597&reply_comment_id=706899228128318&notif_id=1715556793796595&notif_t=mentions_reply&ref=notif

@BigDub
Elmar, here is the recording if you feel like listening to it. https://soundcloud.com/bigdub-3/07-christmas-day-in-the?si=85561cd1af7440b98a25acaf3c4a8893&utm

I started playing on my LA Recording today with my TF (trumpet/flugel V cup) mouthpiece today. What a sound!