These are the types of questions that get inside my head.
It will now take me weeks, maybe months, to stop concentrating on what my tongue is doing while I'm playing.
It’s ok, though. I got over the wet or dry lip dilemma fairly unscathed. My therapist says I am making great progress.
I have a 1980 Getzen Eterna 900. I was told the 1979 model Eterna was the last year Doc Severinsen had his name on the Eterna. They informed me none of the specs changed from the Severinsen from the final year. That’s all I have to go by, so anyway I am very very happy with my Eterna, which by the way, still looks like new and........the valves are fantastic.....
Different types of people process things in different ways, I dare say. Some are more feel, ear, sense of the music, while others want to break it all down painstakingly by way of a formula. Nothing wrong in either case, it’s just what makes us all different.
For me, once I feel something, it sticks. Often I need to hear it first, but just once will do it, usually. Not that I am a jazz improvisor to that extent, but with certain music that leans more towards a jazz feel I go that way.
@Niner said in Easy Quiz:
Ok.... so as not to irritate the disinterested any longer, Jericho has them right down to 5 and 6.
Five is the classic King Master cornet. That receiver end is classic and distinct. That model has been posted about recently on this forum at this site.
The last one is the hardest for those with little interest in vintage instruments but very distinct. That arrow brace is a product of the Elkhart Band Instrument Company over a few decades. It's The Elkhart model. Elkhart Band Instruments was balled up with Buescher with the founder being also President of Buescher ...see Horn u copia for the outline and the convoluted history. The model "The Elkhart" with the engraved Elk on the bell was made for a few decades. The later models add "by Buescher" on the bell. The early peashooter I have is one of my favorites. I had a later "The Elkhart", not pea shooter model but it wasn't the same quality and I sold it.
Don’t let my lack of knowledge be mistaken for lack of interest.
Kind of the exact opposite of my illustrious career as a student. I should have told the teachers, "Don't let my lack of interest be mistaken for lack of knowledge. I know. I just don’t care. Please teach me something interesting before I turn to marble here.”
@Dr-Mark said in Artist on BOARD:
Hi BigDub,
Isn't it amazing that when your painting is compared to a photo or to seeing the trees and mountains, your trees don't look like trees and your mountains do not look like mountains but our imagination allows us to appreciate your trees and mountains far more than we would if we were to look at a simple photo. Bravo!
The funny thing is, more than once I have had someone say in response to a painting I have shown, “you should paint that one, it would make a great painting”
Uh, hem, yeah.....I did already. That’s it right there. You're looking at it.
Here, for example, is something for your keen eyes to examine for “yer own self”
Which is which?
Another one from our great trip to Alaska. I have over 400 photos from that trip, though not ALL are painting worthy
@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:
OMG, Wayne, that waterfall is amazing. The entire painting is amazing. Dr.Mark said it right, " You are a blessed man. "
Thank you George! I am very humbled by your kind words.
Here's a tip.
Surround your car with chicken wire.
It'll be impeccable.
My cousin has a job where his crew works on punch lists for new homes. One recent occasion he had to secure someone to mow a section of lawn that was currently an eyesore. He asked his one employee who could communicate in Spanish to ask the young Spanish speaking man if he could do it. After showing the young fellow how the commercial mower worked for a few minutes, the young man said he was “listo” ( ready )
After about a half hour after watching the man mow, a supervisor came over and asked my cousin what was taking so long. He wasn’t happy. My cousin went to get a closer look. The mower was making laps and had been doing so all this time. The grass was the same as when he started! He didn’t realize he mower blades needed to be engaged in order to cut the grass. He was just going through the motions, like a car race.....
Yes. True story.
@Kehaulani said in On the, “ I wish I had had a little more sense of history” topic......:
Just reacting like a lot o posts on this forum . . . out of context.
Didn't finish my morning espresso. Sorry.Things I missed . . . Bette Midler went to the same school as I. . . although she wasn't "Bette Midler", yet.
Seriously, and this isn't as self-serving as it may seem . . but in reflection . . I was actually better than I thought I was. Excellence wasn't something one strived for, it was merely assumed.
That's more like it, K. Now you’ve got the hang of it.
I know I can be straight with you. You have thick skin like me.
@Dr-Mark said in Artist on BOARD:
@BigDub
Nope, no exaggeration at all. The paintings speak for themselves, rumor has it you're a pretty good trumpet player, and you're....well....I guess you're kinda right.
I don't know if you can speak.
My speaking can be heard for long distances. I am told.
@Kehaulani said in On the, “ I wish I had had a little more sense of history” topic......:
(Sung) "Strangler in the Night."
I used to end a lot of dance jobs with this. Audience loved it . . I hated it. Musical whoredom. I'll do almost anything if it keeps the wolf from the door.
Though all of your opinions matter, sometimes, I didn’t ask if anyone liked it or what your opinion of the song was in this case. In fact, my classmates and I didn’t much care for it either. That wasn’t my point.
My point was.......I had things happen in HS and they went right over my head.
Similar to now, I guess.
@Dr-Mark said in Artist on BOARD:
Hi BigDub,
This reminds me of Stonewall Jackson park in Lewis County WV.
You are a blessed man. You can speak with music, paint, and words
Bravo!
Tanx. I got me some skills.........maybe. You are exaggerating, of course.
Things that went on around me in High School which flew directly over my radar, so to speak.....
One of my best friends in Freshman year, like we stayed over each other's house and hung out lots of times, played in band together, ( he played the cornet ) .
Anyway, turns out, unbeknownst to me,he was one of those boy geniuses. For real. He had graduated from college already at that point and was just going through the process for social development, which was very needed. He and I were kind of babyish, though his IQ was slightly higher than mine, by about a hundred maybe. Upon graduation, one of my teachers told me this was the case, all about him graduating college and all. Now he is a PHD with an arms length of patents and inventions..
Another person who was in my own graduating class went around telling people that his father wrote "STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT” which at the time was a huge hit for Frank Sinatra.....most of the other kids kind of "poo-pooed" it as total nonsense. No way.
His name? Richard Snyder. This morning, I Googled who wrote the song, Strangers In The Night?
Four people collaborated on it, as it was originally written by a Croatian composer, then a German Bert Kaempfert bought it, later the lyrics were co written by another writer and, Eddie Snyder.
Whoops. I also looked up his other credits and the list was pretty long. He won an Emmy for it. It is entirely possible that Rich Snyder's father wrote the lyrics for Strangers in the Night. And this meant practically nothing to us. I think it frustrated him a little bit.....
High School can be pretty tough, especially in New Jersey.
here is another one. This is THE most often photographed place in the State if New Jersey, BTW. Most everyone who sees my painting in person will know right away what it is 
@Dr-GO said in A little humour:
Did ya know the Sahara Desert was a lush golf course until I played through. Should 'a replaced my divots, I guess.
No, but if you hum a few bars I might be able to fake it.
Of course I have been to the Grand Canyon. I was a junior in High School at the time, so you could still jump across it.
I also saw the Pretty Good Salt Lake. I think the name is different now.
@Dr-Mark said in Artist on BOARD:
Hi BigDub,
You've figured out how to say something with paint.
Thank you very kindly. I don’t know that I am doing that consciously by any stretch of my imagination, but my goal at the start of any painting is to share what appeals to me visually about a particular scene. Then I hope that those who see it share the same sentiments and feelings as I have. Or, they have their own feelings about it, which could be totally different from what I was aiming at!
