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@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:

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

Well, maybe, but........
for example, catgut, which used to be what the strings on a tennis racquet were made out of, then should be called sheep intestines?
Or, I have an intestinal feeling something bad is going to happen.......
Just trust your intestines.....yeah. Everyone says that.

This is making my gastrointestinal track queasy.

Yes, I go on the Internet. I see stupid people. Does that make me stupid?
If you are on Facebook and can’t find one spelling or grammatical error in the first minute, you may just be one of those people mentioned in the first sentence.

@Dr-GO said in 2019 Jazz Festivals:

By the way, check out the valve action on the Kanstul in this cut:

W.O.W.
Outstanding. And Brenda Flowers definitely has got an Ella Fitzgerald vibe going on. A hint, at least.

@Trumpetsplus said in Buy your horns here, not there!:

People buy Jaeger trumpets from me.

And mouthpieces too

@Dr-GO said in 2019 Jazz Festivals:

The day after. Here is a post of one of the songs the quintet played backing up the vocalist Brenda Flowers. I decided to bring out my Harrelson on this day as we had a two set with rather challenging ranges to play. This song was to be played by the sax player but at the last minute he punted the song over to me due to the break neck tempo. So here I am, unrehearsed, as it was "Just One of Those Things":

A little too much coffee, Doc?
Haha, just kidding. SMOKIN'!!

@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

@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.

Dillon's has an amazing customer base range. I am about 40 minutes away but I have heard stories of people traveling from much farther away. If you judged it by its outward appearance you would turn around and leave. That would be a mistake. The inside is full of brassy goodness.

@Dr-GO said in Bundy!:

@BigDub said in Bundy!:

Well, I guess he could play an entire song without taking a breath. And whistle the whole time.

Not to forget to mention he will always have a drum behind him.

He had to ask his instrument repair tech why he was getting a waxy film on his lead pipe.

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

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

@Tobylou8 said in Bundy!:

@BigDub said in Bundy!:

@J-Jericho said in Bundy!:

Here's a demonstration of how to play a Bundy trumpet by ear:

This guy clearly doesn’t know how to play

EXCUSE ME!!!! He has an ear for trumpet!!

Well, I guess he could play an entire song without taking a breath. And whistle the whole time.

@J-Jericho said in Bundy!:

Here's a demonstration of how to play a Bundy trumpet by ear:

This guy clearly doesn’t know how to play

Woman in the stands, watching her son's first half time performance with the marching band: Look at my Bobbie! He's the only one going in the right direction and everyone else is out of step!

@MasterWannabe said in Did something unusual this morning:

@BigDub I believe Amazing Grace is one of those songs that really demonstrates how music is the language of GOD. This is one of those pieces that is relatively simple but if one opens up their heart while playing, it (the song) will create many variations and speak to multitudes of people in their own way. I have never played it the same way twice and I have never played it that I wasn't touched in a new way.

Amen to that, Ray.

“‘‘Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believed"

My daughter texted me that night that her students were talking about it all the rest of the day.

@Bob-Pixley said in Are you a fan of early 1900's music?:

@BigDub said in Are you a fan of early 1900's music?:

@Bob-Pixley said in Are you a fan of early 1900's music?:

I played in a parlor/society orchestra for a while and it was fun. Some of the parts were written for clarinet and trumpet/cornet in A. I made good use of a beat-up 1925 Conn 22B New York Symphony Orchestra trumpet I owned at the time that had a rotary valve in the tuning slide that switched the trumpet from Bb to A. It worked pretty well.

How do you change it from Bb to A? Do you just turn it with your hand, or do you use a tool?
Very interesting.

You just turn the knob by hand. The strange thing was, the valve slides didn't need to be pulled out any to play in tune in A. A friend of mine borrowed it to play a piece in A in the local symphony and he noticed the same thing. I suppose the slides were slightly longer than modern Bb slides.

Also true of the 1914 Frank Holton Revelation I have played a couple of times. It is in tune ( for me, at least ) without pulling the tuning slide out at all.

@Bob-Pixley said in Are you a fan of early 1900's music?:

I played in a parlor/society orchestra for a while and it was fun. Some of the parts were written for clarinet and trumpet/cornet in A. I made good use of a beat-up 1925 Conn 22B New York Symphony Orchestra trumpet I owned at the time that had a rotary valve in the tuning slide that switched the trumpet from Bb to A. It worked pretty well.

How do you change it from Bb to A? Do you just turn it with your hand, or do you use a tool?
Very interesting.

Today I played "Amazing Grace" with a high school senior accompanying me on piano, for his classmates. We had never worked on it together until this morning. We went over it twice, making a few changes here and there.
Here’s what led up to it. My daughter is the High School teacher for( AP English ) for this student. Let's just call him Frankie. She, ( our daughter) assigned them some sort of senior final project that allows them to share with the class a certain interest or passion they may have. Frankie's is Jazz music and music in general. He's a good pianist and even has written some of his own stuff. He wanted to have someone play trumpet along with one of his songs, and he chose Amazing Grace. Teacher then suggests her father can play the trumpet with him, maybe? And so, I did.
When we first started, I thought....hmmm, he seems a little stiff and halting. Oh, well, I thought, it’s his show...
After going over it once, I asked if he would mind some suggestions. He said, no, not at all. I said, how about we do this, that, and that? And he perked right up and said, yeah, that sounds good. Next, and final time we ran through it he was rejuvenated and finally let loose and really was now doing what he could do. We really got on the same channel and felt what we should be doing. It went great when it came time to do it a few minutes later. He then played a few more pieces on his own. What a great experience to hear him play! I enjoyed it, except for the awful traffic I had to face going to the school at rush hour this morning!

@J-Jericho said in Remember when butchers wore a blue and white striped apron?:

@BigDub I just had another thought. I wonder if glass beading would remove paint from canvas without harming the canvas.!
I'll check.

More then once I have scene words used incorrectly.
It really is a pane in the neck.
I know what your thinking, now.