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If you suck at playing the trumpet…..that’s probably why.
Harmonica, maybe, half the time, but not trumpet.

You’re very welcome.

A blonde gets lost while driving in a raging blizzard. At first she panics, but then remembered her father’s advice: just get behind the snowplow and follow it.
She spots one and immediately starts to follow. She’s doing just fine and after 45 minutes the plow driver gets out and walks to her driver’s side, says, I’m done plowing the Walmart parking lot. Would you like to follow me to Best Buy now?

First of all, I will not declare it right or wrong universally. That task is for the much better informed. I will share my thoughts, however, which most of you know I freely do on occasion.
If it sounds like too much, it might be too much.
If you are in a group, it might be better to cut back on it a little, as it can affect the intonation of an ensemble.
I think that previous message was for me, mostly.

@Dr-GO said in 2019 Jazz Festivals:

By the way, check out the valve action on the Kanstul in this cut:

W.O.W.
Outstanding. And Brenda Flowers definitely has got an Ella Fitzgerald vibe going on. A hint, at least.

@j-jericho said in Progress in my comeback:

@ssmith1226 It's puzzling. She's so good at playing, yet something's missing (besides her shoes). She has to love what she does, or she wouldn't do it and do it this well, and yet there seems to be a lack of enthusiasm, and it comes across in her performances.

Well, she is French. They’re............different.

@Tobylou8 if I didn’t know better I would think someone was afraid to hurt feelings.....he couldn’t bring himself to tell most of the group they were flat.
I often thought to myself, you don’t get people to stay on pitch by telling them they are not on pitch. Tell them, "if you're always flat, maybe, just maybe you might want to think sharper?" But no. The easy way out was to chastise my section for not listening to the rest of the choir.
That didn’t sit well with me as I steadily let myself go flatter so I didn’t offend the sopranos. Oy!

@Peter-Mac said in Great Idea!:

I am here, but changed Names.
I figure a better coat for the new site. Maybe no-one will recognize me... I've lost weight.
Stumac tipped me off to TrumpetBoards. I'd lost interest in most sites, time poor and playing in too many bands, as well as some regular work hours interrupting my old routine. Good luck, so far it looks a winner.

By any other name you're still my friend....welcome, mate!

I don’t buzz. For those who were interested.

@Tobylou8 that same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. Best cleaning job I ever did and it was clearly noticeable to me. I am happy for you.

@dr-go said in Progress in my comeback:

@bigdub said in Progress in my comeback:

@j-jericho said in Progress in my comeback:

Well, she is French. They’re............different.

What, not shaving their legs?

Number #47 on the list.
Actually, for a while I had a French Girlfriend. We got along great even though she spoke no English and I spoke no French.
She did not shave her legs, to my knowledge.
Pretty sure it was fourth grade.

I think in some cases a sense of pitch, no matter how little, is better than what I have to listen to in my community band. One of the trombone players, bless his heart, plays about a half step off.
Can’t he hear that? It's actually painful for me.
He doesn’t come around that much.........that is sadly a relief. I don’t wish any harm to him, but only wish he could hear how off he is, or someone in the section tap him on the shoulder, maybe with a Louisville Slugger ( if necessary).
Just kidding about that.

@J-Jericho said in Great Idea!:

It's good to see you over here now, Peter. We still recognize you... and your "weight" loss. Your hints helped, though.

We're a smart bunch of fellers here

@j-jericho said in Mouthpiece issue:

@rowuk ... or he should use the Bach numbering system. You know... the number of high notes is stamped into the mouthpiece, along with which pitch the mouthpiece contains! For example, a 10-1/2 C enables you to play ten and one half octaves of the note "C", whereas a 2 only has two undetermined high notes available.

Now I understand completely.

Sorry for the wandering.
Back to the question, though, I think the real thing is taking your time with it, and not trying to microwave your results. More of a slow cook approach. ( I am paraphrasing what Rowuk said. He knows the deal. )

@Tobylou8 said in So, how's your Fourth?:

@BigDub said in So, how's your Fourth?:

@Tobylou8 that same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. Best cleaning job I ever did and it was clearly noticeable to me. I am happy for you.

Thank you kind sir! I should have suspected something was amiss when high C's became erratic, and we had a lot of them this program. I had been very busy and figured I wasn't practicing enough, even though my routine was the same. It's been one of those springs when everything ran together. Maybe it was left over granola bar?? Anyhow, long, long brushes from Harbor Freight saved my keister!!!

First reference to keister. Good job with that.
I don’t think a cleaning like I mentioned was ever as significant as this last one a couple of months ago. It was like releasing a caged animal back to its natural habitat. Or something like that.

@Vulgano-Brother said in Oder Deutsch?:

German can be spoken here as well.

Although it might be more effective in the written form

@neal085 said in Practicing with drones:

@BigDub Big Brother just making sure you were playing in tune, but also curious what MP you were using.

There were also TV cameras there, but this happens everywhere I go, it seems..
( the tv camera part was true, but the part about it happening everywhere I go, not so much )
We all have big brother following us. Our iPhones/smart phones, don’t you think?

@J-Jericho said in RIP Trumpet "Master":

Before TM went down for what appears to be the final time, there was a troll that bragged about being able to circumvent whatever barriers there may have been to prevent him from inflicting himself on the forum. Coincidence?

I don’t doubt someone could do that. It is frightening what people can do, and what is being done.

@Dr-GO said in Trumpets Made ONLY by Their Maker:

@Trumpetsplus said in Trumpets Made ONLY by Their Maker:

There is some confusing and incorrect information about various trumpet brands in this thread. BTW here are some photos on this page of an ascending valve trumpet I finished in my South Salem, NY workshop last week.
http://www.jaegerbrass.com/jaeger-ascending-c.html

Ivan! OMG it is so good to have you with us! Please make the corrections as you are the ultimate authority (utimate in case you missed the TM spelling). I anxiously await your corrections, Grand Master!
Doesn’t Ivan actually qualify as a maker of trumpets, bearing his name, that is, if you consider "Jaeger" to be the German word for Hunter?