Best posts made by BigDub

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

I try not to be condescending. That’s when you assume the person to whom you’re speaking needs help understanding the very intelligent things you are saying.

Now, I heard that Julie Andrews will no longer endorse cheap lipstick. It crumbles easily and makes her breath smell. She explained, "The super colour fragile lipstick gives me halitosis."

That means...........well, if you don’t get it........never mind.....

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

A State Trooper pulled over a Man for Speeding one afternoon. After the car pulled over the officer took the Gentleman out of the car and told him to put his hands on the hood of his car.

The Trooper told the man, "Sir, the reason i stopped your vehicle is you were going 80 miles over the posted speed limit and it took me miles to catch up to you." The man looked at the Officer and said "I'm sorry Officer but theres a good reason why I was Speeding"

The Officer looked at the Man and said "if you can give me one good reason why you were Speeding, I will let you off with a warning."

The man began to explain.... "A few years ago my Wife ran off with a State Trooper and when I saw you in my rearview mirror I panicked. I thought You Were Bringing Her Back."

The officer LAUGHING told the man, "Have a Nice Day......"

Another guy gets stopped for speeding by a Texas State trooper. The officer asks him for his paperwork and then why he was driving so fast. Driver says, I am with the Circus that is performing up the road and I am trying not to be late. I am so sorry for speeding. Trooper says, what do you do for the circus?
I'm a juggler.
Hmm, says the trooper, get out, and show me some juggling and I'll let you off with a warning. I LOVE juggling.
Oh, says the driver, my stuff is in the equipment van, so I don’t have anything to juggle.
That didn’t stop the Trooper.
He insisted he could use a couple of flares, the jack handle and a safety triangle from the trunk.
Next thing you know, two guys from Oklahoma drive by and see the act happening on the side of the road. One says to the other Okie, remind me never to drink and drive in Texas, I'd never pass that sobriety test!

Some of you might appreciate a little southern comfort Art.
This is a scene I painted from a friend's great photo of a South Carolina inlet, somewhere on or near Hilton Head Island. By the way, I was unhappy with the first version and did it over. This is the new version.

Did these two for our NJ grandkids for Christmas. They both loved their paintings!