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@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@dfcoleman

The trick is how can you get a trumpet to NOT play fortissimo. That’s the trick.

Speaking of too much music, we had a gig last night, which went very well with no set list issues (LOL)
The opposite of too much music happened, however. Our drummer's music never got there, he wasn’t responsible for it. He did an amazing job of ad libbing the whole night.
No one was the wiser. He would ask us how the intro went and a little about the song and go from there!

@Kehaulani
Similar but not exactly the same thing as that, I had arranged it in my senior year of high school to have a study hall for my last period ( I doubt they even have those any more ) but anyway, I got very bored with it and to top it off I had a part time job after school, so the sooner I could get there, the sooner I could start making money. A whopping $1.75 an hour, mind you. So I decided to walk confidently by the teacher standing by the exit door, smile at him, say have a nice afternoon, and get in my car and leave.
Not once did anyone ask questions or even look sideways at me. We were not allowed to leave any time we wished. But I figured if I looked casual enough, well, you know. And guess what class I dropped to turn it into study hall? Art. I couldn’t stand it.

@Doodlin said in Valve combination 1 and 3:

I think it's only for D and G below the staff. As a beginner , this particular combo seems to require a different airstream or attack. I am I alone on this?

Officially, I would say that is correct, however the 1&3 combination can be used and held down he entire time for playing D G B G arpeggios and bugle type calls so you don’t have to move to different fingerings, but I know the intonation would be affected. I use that combination for the D on the 4th line with my C trumpet sometimes for better intonation. So you see, there are some exceptions.

People say to me, "A penny for your thoughts?".

But then they want change.

@administrator 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.:

She says, they're Bison.

Sounds like Bull to me.

Does it work now?

It did not work. There were no disruptions as promised.

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

What`s the difference between a baroque trumpeter and a dressmaker?
A dressmaker tucks up frills.

However, maybe if the trumpet player wasn't baroque, the trills would be fixed up!

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

Tell me if you heard this one:
A drummer walked past the bar...

I believe that looks like a Bach Suppositorious

1. I don’t know
2. Something or another
3. I could care less, which means I do care to some degree.
4. I have no idea
5. No clue

@Niner said in A little humour:

Yogi Berra explains Jazz.

Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?

Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.

Interviewer: I don't understand.

Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Interviewer: Do you understand it?

Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.

Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today?

Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead. Some would kill for it.

Interviewer: What is syncopation?

Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.

Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.

Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well.

Once again, Yogi is credited with not saying anything about something he knew nothing about.

I do not have any advice, but only words of encouragement.
Great to hear it went ok, and thanks for sharing the information with us.
Dr GO is certainly the one to listen to, so listen to him!
That’s my advice. Also if Steve Smith has anything to say, ditto.
I am pulling for you, and you are in my thoughts and prayers.

I'll often get some interesting requests for paintings. Some not exactly what I would pick myself, mind you. Here is one such subject, which when first requested almost threw me for a loop. It was to be 11x14, and that size was not a comfortable size for such intricate details. Since that time, however, I have welcomed doing smaller work. I grew into it, so to speak...LOL
this is a mountain from somewhere in South Africa.

Another thing here is that NO brand or make of trumpet is going to make a great player out of any of these students. Repetition of correct methods. Lots of repetition, even on a no name trumpet will do it.

Back in the day, they had a thing called the Irish sweepstakes ( before there was a lottery ).
So Shamus Murphy bought a ticket, with the amount of the prize being $50,000. That was a huge amount of money, in those days, if he were to win. Mrs Murphy and his lovely daughter got to the mailbox before Shamus did, so they found out he won.
Concerned for his weak heart, they thought it might be best to call the local parish Priest to bring it to him gently....he would know better how to break it to him, of course.
So the old Priest gladly came over to do the kind deed.
"Mr Murphy, I heard you bought a ticket to the sweepstakes"
"Yes, father, I sure did"
"Well, isn't that something! And what would you do with all those winnings, if, of course, you won?" He said.
"Why, if I won, I would surely give half of the winnings to you and the church, father!"
The priest fell over dead with a heart attack.

I think the reason this subject of brand name brainwashing, so to speak, is such an issue with me is because I had a Sears, Roebuck catalog trumpet as I entered High School band. I also was catching up, not having started quite as early as the others. The stigma of playing such a horn did not go unnoticed by me or anyone else. Kids could be cruel, as we know. My band director, thank the Lord, said, this Trumpet is made for Sears by Blessing, and it is a good horn. That was a good thing, since my parents did not consult him or anyone else about it.
Next thing I knew I was first chair by the time I was a junior, leaving everyone else in the dust!

@moshe
A friend of mine recently went on a fantastic African safari vacation. One morning Bob was able to get up before everyone else and get a great shot ( photo. PHOTO ) of a bull elephant while still in his pajamas.
How that elephant fit into his pajamas I'll never figure out!

Eye popping cleaning..
I decided my Getzen Eterna, ( which other people would say looks like new to begin with ), needed a cleaning before I played a gig last night. I did a couple of things differently, kind of on the fly. Took one of my plastic 16 oz. containers from my painting ( artwork ) stuff, because it was wide enough to have the tuning slide sit in it to soak, along with first and third tuning slides. I used fairly hot water with a touch of Dawn dish detergent. The amato water keys really enjoy this and are very cooperative after this treatment. I also took the felts off all the valves and put all three in there to soak as well. I did the snake on any and all these after the soaking, snaked the lead pipe and any other areas I could get at with the warm to hot water and Dawn. Ran soapy water then clear. I mainly wanted to buff the exterior because it had gotten a little less than mirror like for my taste. I made my own buffer, like a jewelers buffing wheel which I attached to my drill. Amazing how well that worked.
Now here is the part that struck me. After all the years I have been playing trumpet, 55+, I have never experienced such a free blowing feeling and ease of play. It was that significant. I handed my horn to my buddy and told him to try it. He had the same experience, though he isn’t accustomed to my horn at all. Anyway, I never had such an immediate improvement to a 20 minute cleaning as this was.

@Niner said in A little humour:

This joke stream...and judging by what happened at the old lamented site......will become probably the most posted string on this new board. And like the old site, a lot of guys make up jokes rather than steal them from someplace else. Some...without my pointing them out.... are really awful. This cries out for an adjustment to the "reputation" arrow that always points up. Really bad jokes should run the risk of getting a reputation vote that goes down.

I don’t always make them up. Sometimes I repeat bad ones, too.

Another one from our great trip to Alaska. I have over 400 photos from that trip, though not ALL are painting worthy