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@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.

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

@BigDub When my wife and I checked in to Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter in New Orleans, after greeting us, the doorman said "Hello Benji" to our dog. We asked him how he knew our dog's name, and he replied that he didn't; he just thought she looked like the star of the movie of the same name (which is why I named her "Benji" in the first place).

Then sometimes I have been known to change the name if I feel I have a more suitable one.....it is usually received with good humor.

A man would walk his Golden Retriever past my house every evening. I didn’t know his name or the dog, but rather than be rude, I would just say, hi Guy, hi, Bud.
This is what I would do. One day I decided to introduce myself because it seemed a little silly to randomly call them names I made up.
My name's Wayne, what's yours? Guy.
No. Yeah, really.
What's your boy's name? I said, rubbing behind the friendly Golden Retriever's ears .
Bud.
Absolutely a 100% true story.

Hard to believe buffing ( in moderation ) would "thin" the tubing. Seems to me the glass beads have a better chance of doing that....IMO

@Bob-Pixley said in A little humour:

Official "sporting event" national anthem arrangement. Due to space constraints, only the first page is displayed...

The only correction I would make is that it started a little too high. Should have started about two or three steps down to allow for the total lack of any range whatsoever. That would be my only slight adjustment.

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

I apologize in advance if this post should have been placed under “Pedagogy”, perhaps under “James Stamp” or “Medical Concerns” subcategory “Hernias”. I was going through some files I had saved 2 years ago and found this one. I don’t recall where it came from. It could have been from TM or some other site. Never the less, I thought that the lessons that could be learned were so worthwhile that it should be resurrected in spite of the hernia risk.

My approach when playing with new people. Warm up as though I am the last chair third trumpet in the middle school band. It scares everyone just as much, but then it’s all gravy after they hear me really play like a fourth chair second trumpet in the middle school band.

How about, “for sale by owner”, or “Hand crafted sandwich”?
Except for the Brooklyn bridge, most things are sold by the owner......
and what else are you going to use to make a sandwich, a fork, or a spatula?

@J-Jericho said in Absence explained (mother passed away...):

@Vulgano-Brother 1913?

hey, show a little respect here........
Volgano-Brother has to be at least a hundred and six.
Respect your elders.

@ButchA said in Absence explained (mother passed away...):

I know I haven't been a frequent contributor to TrumpetBoards as much as in the beginning. However, as George asked in the another thread:

@GeorgeB said in Finally, I am playing a Conn Trumpet again:

Thanks, Butch. Hope all is well,
Cheers,
George

Well, back on May 15th, things WERE NOT well... I got "that phone call" that you never really want to get, no matter what age you are.

My mother passed away in the nursing home back on May 15th, at the wonderful age of 95. God Bless her, she lived an amazing long life. After my dad passed away back in 2002 (at age 80 from congestive heart failure), my oldest sister who is a retired RN from a major hospital in upstate NY was the logical choice to care for my mom. As the years passed, my mom slowly developed dementia and required 24/7/365 care. We (my sisters and I) made a unanimous decision to put mom in a nursing home for her remaining time. It was so heartbreaking to call her, as she wouldn't know who you were. Other times, she'd remember your voice, know who you were, and actually have a conversation with you. But then, suddenly with no warning, she would think I was my Uncle Doug (her younger brother), and she would start complaining about the cost of gas going up to .32 cents a gallon and that she needs my father to check a tire on her 1962 Ford Falcon... All you can do is just sit there, listen, and agree with her and think back to around 1964 or 1965.

Another seriously annoying issue is with my sisters (all older sisters - I'm the baby of the family and the only boy). They are constantly arguing and bickering about mom and her belongings. One sister (every family has one! ) is rumored to want to get lawyers involved to contest the will and do some type of shenanigans....

Sorry to post something like this, but, who knew that with regards to the death of a parent, the children start arguing over things. It's just not right!

Eventually we'll have the burial up at the family cemetery plot on Staten Island, NY City, where my family's roots are, since 1855.

Sorry to hear about that, Butch. Hope things can calm down and folks can be sensible about everything.

@Dr-GO said in pet peeves:

Not sure the "Pet Peeves" thread is to be solely related to language usage, but at this point would rather add to a Pet Peeve in the weather category: Mother Natures gift known as a Tornado.

I have been away for a couple of days as my "neighborhood" was hit my not one by two (2) EF3 tornadoes on the evening of Memorial Day. This EF3 came due East. Here is a picture of one of my neighbors homes that is just one block East and one block South of my home:

The second EF3 was originally heading North after crossing the Indiana state line for Troy OH, then suddenly dropped 20 miles South to miss my street by just a half mile. This second one came by just a couple minutes from the first one and nearly crossed paths about a mile away from where I live.

I was lucky as the tornado just miss my block (two rows of houses where is touched down). So my home has no damage what-so-ever and not even a limb blown off from my trees. I believe my house was so close we may have been in a vacuum just external to the twister. They say a tornado coming through was like hearing a freight train. I heard NOTHING. I mean PURE SILENCE (not even wind blowing or rain falling) that is how freaky this experience has been. So today, we just got electricity back on, and my phone and internet service just kicked in about an hour ago.

Stay safe out there during these Midwest Hot and Humid days of "Summer", and if you hear Tornado warnings do get to the center of the lowest level of your home. This is what I did and by the grace of God, was spared.

So glad to hear this. You can only realize we are quite powerless to prevent these things and I am Certain you're grateful and thankful to go unscathed like this. I am sure you have many neighbors and friends who were not so fortunate but you can and will reach out to them in any way you are able.

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@Kehaulani said in A little humour:

I don't know what this has with "Humor", but since we're on the subject of TSA - in my travels, I've been met with both horrible conditions and people, and easy ones. To me, it generally had to do with location. I.e., TSA in New York as abdominal and rude while TSA in Honolulu was fine.

I just don’t have the stomach for those abdominal TSA agents

As long as your stomach contents is under 3 oz, you're OK!

Swwwwwwwwiiiiiiish

@Kehaulani said in A little humour:

I don't know what this has with "Humor", but since we're on the subject of TSA - in my travels, I've been met with both horrible conditions and people, and easy ones. To me, it generally had to do with location. I.e., TSA in New York as abdominal and rude while TSA in Honolulu was fine.

I just don’t have the stomach for those abdominal TSA agents

@administrator said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@administrator said in A little humour:

I don't know I just think that giving the response of "I'm feeling suicidal today," to the cashier's question "How are you?" Just doesn't seem quite right.

Especially when embarking on an airline flight.........

The only thing the TSA encourages is misery!

They are not the most flexible, "out of the box" type people.
I think a Robot might be more compromising.....
Not that I'm complaining......they have to do their job the way they are told.

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

@administrator said in A little humour:

I don't know I just think that giving the response of "I'm feeling suicidal today," to the cashier's question "How are you?" Just doesn't seem quite right.

Yeah... "I'm feeling homicidal." works better. It gives the cashier more to think about.

You don’t want the clerk to overthink this. Here is what can happen:

RrrrrrUSSIA!!!!!

There are several lessons to be learned here.........

@administrator said in A little humour:

I don't know I just think that giving the response of "I'm feeling suicidal today," to the cashier's question "How are you?" Just doesn't seem quite right.

Especially when embarking on an airline flight.........

@administrator said in A little humour:

What's fun is actually giving an honest answer to that question.

You, too.