Posts made by BigDub

I always wanted to express my feel for these civil servants we owe so much respect to....”THE BUILDING INSPECTOR”
By me.

I did a bit of a tribute to my cousin, who was a significant influence on my artistic life. His painting, which I did a study on here, was a fall scene, so I did a very similar scene in a winter feel

@dr-go
nah, probably just a regular old bare incandescent bulb-
Ya wise guy

I don’t have any trouble with seeing the conductor. It’s more of a problem that I have to look.

Another completed painting. This morning.
Based on a scene from my own area, but I made it wintery.![alt text

I am ok now, but I did have problems. I have an iPad ( new ) and use safari.

@tptguy said in Special music reading glasses:

When I started my comeback, I had prescription glasses made just for music. The big drawback, is that i couldn't see the conductor very well, looking away from the stand gave me a headache. Stricly reading music ( practice at home) was great.
In the end, my regular precripton byfocals ended up working out best.

G.
Thanks. I think I will check into that. Lucky for me, I don’t really pay that much attention to the conductor....just kidding

Ole was a Norwegian from Minnesota, and of course, Lutheran. He got pretty drunk one Friday night and accidentally found himself, for the first time ever, ( unbeknownst to him ) in a confessional at a Catholic Church. After a while he hears knocking on the wall beside him. After another while he hears knocking again. He answers the knocking, you may as well stop knocking, my friend, there’s no paper in here either.

Thanks, George. You have my email so if you end up exiting, keep in touch, my friend..

@dr-go said in A little humour:

@bigdub said in A little humour:

Well, we did, they said, but recently they heard that one out of four children born in the world is Chinese, and they just didn’t think they could take the chance.

So do you think that punch line will go viral?

Ohhhhhh yes

Sounds good

Another couple in Dustin and Jane's group of friends was much more successful with having children and loved the whole idea of being parents. Carl and Lisa had 3 children in rapid succession and all the friends were quite perplexed that they suddenly stopped having kids. Dustin and Jane asked them about it, saying, how come you stopped at three so sudden like? Don’t you want a big crew of children?
Well, we did, they said, but recently they heard that one out of four children born in the world is Chinese, and they just didn’t think they could take the chance.

Does anyone have specialized glasses just for reading sheet music? I know it is so, but if you could comment on it and maybe give me some suggestions.....
I do have progressive lenses and my prescription is up to date, yet the only thing I seem to have issues with is reading sheet music. I have no trouble reading music from my iPad, and it’s not even the larger version.
On the paper stuff, I seem to mistakenly see the note on the next space up or down. If it’s really a c in the staff I think it might be a d. Like that.

Dustin and Jane (both blonde) were delighted when finally their long wait to adopt a baby had come to an end.

The adoption centre called and told them they had a wonderful Russian baby boy, and the couple took him without hesitation.

On the way home from the adoption centre,

They stopped by the local college so they each could enrol in night courses.

After they filled out the form, the registration clerk inquired,

“Whatever possessed you to study Russian?”

The couple said proudly,

“We just adopted a Russian baby and in a year or so he’ll start to talk. We just want to be able to understand him.”

Administrator: I couldn’t do a message to you in the normal way, so this is why I tell you here.

I just got an email from GeorgeB. He says he is locked out and cannot log in or anything. I had a similar problem but it worked itself out somehow. Could you please see if you can help him with that

@tjcombo said in A little humour:

Perfect.

@dr-go said in Some Of Your Favorite Trumpet Gals:

@georgeb said in Some Of Your Favorite Trumpet Gals:

@bigdub

Yeah, she is good, Wayne. I've watched quite a few of her videos.

Did you watch closely at 3:39 on. You can really see the facial muscles from the upper lips toward the orbits of her eyes work as she uses the "phwoooooo" embouchure. It is a much softer approach to the embouchure, and is the most efficient from the concept of expanding energy for trumpet playing.

It was TIne that said in an interview posted elsewhere on this blog that "I do not buzz". In fact, she "phwooooooooos".

I also saw her demonstrate the fact that she cannot buzz at all without the mouthpiece....physically can not get a buzz....

Welcome, @gloucestre.
There is an app I use for photo reduction that is called Resizer.
It is extremely easy to use and there are about three steps and you’re good to go. Oh, it might be important for me to mention that I use it on an iPad, but I am fairly sure it is PC ready as well.

Feel free to message me if you have questions, mate!

If one player stands out to me that has virtually one and only one signature song, then it seems to me Chuck Mangione's “Feels So Good” fits that like almost no other. And from the general public's perspective I think you would be hard pressed to find one out of a hundred who could name any other songs he ever did!

@atrumpetdude said in Merry Christmas!:

@bigdub
Yes I've also always thought the sound of a C trumpet is very Christmas-y

It seemed to fit perfectly. Very clean delivery on your part. Very.

Do you have a brass ensemble there? If so, message me.