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You won’t hear a discouraging word from the Dub, that’s for sure

@barliman2001 said in Community Band:

OK - I'm back from Bitburg, and have come back to life sufficiently to tell you about how it was this time.
Friday, 4 am: Get up, quick clean, load up the rather tiny car with three brass players, four cases and five instruments. Eight hour drive to Bitburg. Short lunch. Get music, change into informal band gear and play a two-hour gig sight reading. six hours of revelry and drinking afterwards.
Saturday: Play a 15-minute gig at the Opening of the Festival (new repertoire - all sight-reading). Help out the local band on baritone horn for their 15-min gig. Have free lunch and drinks. Play two-hour open air gig (again, not a single repeated piece). Have dinner and more drinks. Play from 8 pm until lights out at 10 (again, not a single repeated piece. Soprano player is asked whether he ever did the Penny Lane solo. Replies, no, but will try. Nails the solo perfectly, says, "I was too drunk to miss anything". More drinks until 2 pm.
Sunday, 10 am, the beer fountain opens up. Free beer for everyone for half an hour. Asked to help out local band on baritone, play a 90-minute gig with them, again sight-reading. After gig, asked to continue helping out at 2 pm. I'm a helpfu guy, so, yes. Coffee and superb rhubarb cake at local bakery. At 5 pm, play 90-minute gig with Coronation Brass (repiano cornet). 30 minutes for a quick shower and dress up in dinner jacket for Flag Ceremony. Assistant Principal already too drunk to attend. After Flag Ceremony, race back to open air stage to play from 8-10 pm. Several pieces played before!! Sop player asked to do Penny Lane again.
Drinks and revelry until 3 am.
Monday, 10-12 assistance to the local band on baritone. 2-4 pm Coronation Brass open air concert. Sop player asked to do Penny Lane again. Another round of drinks. Assistant Principal spills full bottle of red wine on white shirt and dinner jacket. Solo Horn player throws up and has hurriedly to leave the stage. First trombone changes to Eb Alto bone and plays Alto horn solo from "Malaguena". Colour Party of US Marines comes along (Bitburg has a US garrison), Bb bass player borrows officer's sword to behead a champagne bottle. Bottle crashes into thousands of splinters, champagne spilled all over Colour Party, sword has a clear dent and won't return to sheath. Rush over to Town Hall to play a one-hour gala concert there. Penny Lane as encore. Rush back to open air stage to play from 8 pm until "light too bad". Town has installed new lighting so that one COULD play all night. No pre-set programme, but pieces asked for by band members and audience. Penny Lane requested by two thirds of the band. Play until 11.30 pm, then Penny Lane as encore. Sop player celebrated as a hero, has twenty free beers shoved at him. Does not succumb (he's a Russian!). Clear up stage, dress in civvies, CELEBRATE. Beer fountain specially opened up just for Coronation Brass. Celebrate until breakfast.
Tuesday: After a late breakfast, pack up things, bundle into cars and return home (wherever that may be). For me, a twelve-hour drive home (many rests in between...)
See you next year, Bitburg!!

It was a day not without incident.

@J-Jericho said in DIY Practice mute out of PET Coke bottles:

@BigDub I'm guessing here, but is it because GG is more brittle and matches that particular characteristic of wood so there's less variation in drag on the cutting bit?

One thing I am sure of is that the seam is invisible and yes, no drag and the two pieces appear as one seamless piece. I usually wet one surface with water and put the glue on the other. This results in an incredibly strong, almost molecular(?) bond.

@ButchA said in Absence explained (mother passed away...):

I know I haven't been a frequent contributor to TrumpetBoards as much as in the beginning. However, as George asked in the another thread:

@GeorgeB said in Finally, I am playing a Conn Trumpet again:

Thanks, Butch. Hope all is well,
Cheers,
George

Well, back on May 15th, things WERE NOT well... I got "that phone call" that you never really want to get, no matter what age you are.

My mother passed away in the nursing home back on May 15th, at the wonderful age of 95. God Bless her, she lived an amazing long life. After my dad passed away back in 2002 (at age 80 from congestive heart failure), my oldest sister who is a retired RN from a major hospital in upstate NY was the logical choice to care for my mom. As the years passed, my mom slowly developed dementia and required 24/7/365 care. We (my sisters and I) made a unanimous decision to put mom in a nursing home for her remaining time. It was so heartbreaking to call her, as she wouldn't know who you were. Other times, she'd remember your voice, know who you were, and actually have a conversation with you. But then, suddenly with no warning, she would think I was my Uncle Doug (her younger brother), and she would start complaining about the cost of gas going up to .32 cents a gallon and that she needs my father to check a tire on her 1962 Ford Falcon... All you can do is just sit there, listen, and agree with her and think back to around 1964 or 1965.

Another seriously annoying issue is with my sisters (all older sisters - I'm the baby of the family and the only boy). They are constantly arguing and bickering about mom and her belongings. One sister (every family has one! ) is rumored to want to get lawyers involved to contest the will and do some type of shenanigans....

Sorry to post something like this, but, who knew that with regards to the death of a parent, the children start arguing over things. It's just not right!

Eventually we'll have the burial up at the family cemetery plot on Staten Island, NY City, where my family's roots are, since 1855.

Sorry to hear about that, Butch. Hope things can calm down and folks can be sensible about everything.

@georgeb said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@bigdub said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@dr-go said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@bigdub said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

You won’t hear a discouraging word... while the deer and the antelope play.

And the skies are not cloudy all day…….

ALL TOGETHER NOW ...
Home home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play...

Fun fact: two animals mentioned in the song are incorrectly named.
Buffalo are really Bison.
Antelope are not that, but are American Pronghorns.
That would just ruin the song, though. How would you fit those names into the lines and make them rhyme to boot? Haha.

You're welcome everyone!

@ssmith1226
I don’t even think I have the words to describe how much joy that gave me to hear that. Great job all around.
I also wanted to comment that David Mason embarrassingly admitted he hadn’t even heard of the Beatles before doing that recording!
I have the music in one of my solo books and the book includes some background information about the artists who originally did the music.

I met Joe Hetman when he came and played a concert with my community band as a sub. I had only a brief conversation about his oil and said I would be interested in getting some from him. That was it. No further contact. One of our next gigs, another trumpet player drops a brown paper bag down on my lap, saying his friend Joe Hetman wanted you to have this. A bottle of valve oil, ( the correct number that I needed, by the way) a bottle of slide oil, and a bottle of slide grease.
All this, having only had that one conversation with me.
Nice guy, but not the end of the story. Later on, at a Chris Botti concert in New Brunswick, as I was leaving, someone says, “hey, Wayne, how are you doing?” And when he sees my blank look, says, “ Joe, Joe Hetman” I tried to quickly recover, and apologized profusely for forgetting who he was, but it had been a couple of years, after all.
Imagine that? He must have some memory, and that is why I think he is a genuinely great guy. I do like his valve oil regardless of that fact.

@J-Jericho said in Absence explained (mother passed away...):

@Vulgano-Brother 1913?

hey, show a little respect here........
Volgano-Brother has to be at least a hundred and six.
Respect your elders.

@georgeb
Haha. Yeah. There’s a lot going on there, right?
It’s the kind of piece where you not only have to ignore what the other parts are doing but have to also pay attention to what they’re doing simultaniously

@Kehaulani said in Attracting members who are interested in things musical/trumpet:

This will, no doubt, elicit a knee-jerk reaction from some who are either offended or who wonder who the heck I think I am. Fair enough. But I think this needs airing.

There is value on any forum for a Lounge, to let members let off steam and to discuss things that do not fall under the general category of the Forum's main intent. This Forum, however, has begun, and stayed, in the realm of "Loungeism". Jokes, pretty pictures etc.

As long as there is no widespread interest in pursuing questions about trumpet pedagogy and musicianship, it will not grow. I've noticed that there were members in the former forum who no longer participate. It seems sort of self-evident.

I feel where you're coming from, Kehaulani. Keep in mind, though, there are forums and sites THat do take the serious side of trumpet playing and music and are already quite established. There are threads for that here and any you care to start as well. Like this thread. I do agree, it is more lounge-ish, but I personally tend to like it. You probably knew that already. And, in conclusion, TH makes me want to go into a coma.

A man would walk his Golden Retriever past my house every evening. I didn’t know his name or the dog, but rather than be rude, I would just say, hi Guy, hi, Bud.
This is what I would do. One day I decided to introduce myself because it seemed a little silly to randomly call them names I made up.
My name's Wayne, what's yours? Guy.
No. Yeah, really.
What's your boy's name? I said, rubbing behind the friendly Golden Retriever's ears .
Bud.
Absolutely a 100% true story.

@Brian-Moon said in LONG TONES:

@Tobylou8 Long tones are great with Sporting events on TV

But it would be just common courtesy to stop while they’re putting

@Tobylou8 I can’t read microfilm either.

Believe it or not, I only made it through the fourth grade.

Well, then we moved to NJ and I resumed my education.

@tjveloce said in Blessing Artist gifted to me:

@BigDub said in Blessing Artist gifted to me:

@tjveloce said in Blessing Artist gifted to me:

@BigDub said in Blessing Artist gifted to me:

I think the case was made by the Hopeless company if I am not mistaken. Or, it’s a Conn Artist's case. Not sure.

Really? Hopeless? That was a brand? Or are you pulling my leg?

-tj

It was a "Hopeless Case". Humor. Pulling your leg, yes.
"Con Artist", that is not a case either..........

Man....I'm dense today. I blame lack of sleep!

-tj
At least you have an excuse. For some it’s a constant. My heart goes out to them........

@Pinstriper said in Spread the Word and Help Lower my Blood Pressure:

I have trouble getting past people who use apostrophes for plurals. I mean, this is what, 4th grade grammar ? Third ? I can understand, sort of, that a lot of people weren't paying attention in high school. But they were already cooked by 4th grade ?

Also, people who report that they "seen" something. No, you "saw" it.

Commas are often misused as well, guilty as charged.
Then there's the "your" instead of "you're", there, their, and they're, “then” used when “than” is called for.
“I use to do that” instead of used to do that.
Here is a subtle one, people use “it's” when referring to possessive. It’s is only for when meaning it is..
Don’t know why that is so, but it’s so.

This is a painting by Norman Rockwell from 1931. Given his reputation of being extremely accurate with his details, I was wondering if anyone here who knows much more than I do could identify what the horn is that is being played here.

@Vulgano-Brother said in Spread the Word and Help Lower my Blood Pressure:

Myself, Ive got moor then too trumpet's.

Ewe must be kidding

@SSmith1226 said in pet peeves:

@J-Jericho said in pet peeves:

Using the term "gut" instead of "intestines".

I have a gut feeling that you might not like chitterlings, “chitlins”, innards, entrails, or viscera either.

Don't get tripe about it

@J-Jericho said in pet peeves:

@BigDub OK, let's narrow it down to its predominant, and to my way of thinking, inappropriate use these days in a health context. "Gut" has its appropriate use, as does "intestines". I would attribute the following quote as an example, but I haven't found the author:

"String music sounds like the scraping of a horse's tail against a cat's intestine."

It’s ok. No matter what you say I still don’t hate your intestines.