Posts made by BigDub

@administrator said in Great Idea!:

Currently, I'm the only moderator and I don't read enough posts to catch much of anything.

That was my problem trying to edit gmonady's posts on you know, TM. He had over 18,000. Whew. Too much for one person!

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@BigDub
At 70, I’m with BigDub...

Well, like I said, I am 67, but I am reading at a 75 yr old level, I am told.

@tjcombo said in A little humour:

@moshe I took a moment to get it too - a few seconds, but then again, I'm only 62
Well, I’m 67 and I don’t know what anyone is talking about....just kidding. I got it as soon as I saw it. Maybe it’s better to be a little older. I remember when the song was playing on the radio!

@Tobylou8 if I didn’t know better I would think someone was afraid to hurt feelings.....he couldn’t bring himself to tell most of the group they were flat.
I often thought to myself, you don’t get people to stay on pitch by telling them they are not on pitch. Tell them, "if you're always flat, maybe, just maybe you might want to think sharper?" But no. The easy way out was to chastise my section for not listening to the rest of the choir.
That didn’t sit well with me as I steadily let myself go flatter so I didn’t offend the sopranos. Oy!

@Tobylou8 wow. That's you?
I have fairly decent relative pitch, and my biggest pet peeve was singing in a choir doing a capella. Me singing tenor.
The tenor section would stick to my pitch. We were continually chastised for being sharp. I would get so angry because the other sections would drop a half tone after about a couple of measures into the piece. Every time.
So, what, we had to purposely sing flat to match their wrong notes? I guess so. Apparently. I did not enjoy singing a capella with this group. It was near torture.

@Newell-Post said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

I have a friend who worked as a music therapist (and excellent recreational musician). She said that in her entire career she only met two people with perfect pitch. Neither of them became advanced or even intermediate musicians because when they were students, playing in student bands and orchestras just kind of drove them around the bend. Perfect pitch made the cacophony of student ensembles completely intolerable to them. OTOH, it didn't seem to hurt Pavarotti very much; nor did the inability to read music.
I often hear the definition of perfect pitch ( not from the dictionary ) as having been born with this ability to identify every single note they hear, or be able to produce any note on demand.
I say, they have to be educated first, to learn what the pitches are in the first place. A person born into other musical cultures, i.e. Asian, African, and indigenous tribes from various countries, they have different scales, pitch frequencies, etc, would affect them accordingly.
In other words, a baby just learning to talk hears the note on Mom's car radio and says, "mommy, that note is an A"
really isn’t what happens, is it.

@FranklinD said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

I played in ancient times slide trombone for 25 years or more but still I believe it's easier to play in tune on a trombone than on a trumpet. I have been in trombone sections that played completely in tune, I don't understand all the complaining and moaning here.

I guess I'm being fairly specific about the ones I am talking about

@Newell-Post said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

That is sort of like assuming singers and violinists all need perfect pitch, since their "instruments" can produce a continuum of pitches. One of my old band directors said the trombone is the only instrument in the brass section that IN THEORY has the ability to play every note perfectly in tune. In practice,.... uhhh, not so much.

And yet, with that possibility the trombone offers, so few players ( at least ones I play near ) take advantage of it!
I would only wish brass players just have a basic sense of pitch. The knowledge of when they are off a bit, and I mean quite a bit. Is that too much to ask?

@Dr-GO said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

@BigDub said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

@moshe said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

I assume that a person needs perfect pitch (or close to it) to play trombone ?

Most trombone players I have known seem to have the opposite of perfect pitch, because if they did, they would be living with constant frustration.

...and then have to "pitch"-a-fit! Or perhaps even a "perfect fit"... Yes?

Now you're talking about my special mute......from Brazil?

@moshe said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

I assume that a person needs perfect pitch (or close to it) to play trombone ?

moshe

Most trombone players I have known seem to have the opposite of perfect pitch, because if they did, they would be living with constant frustration.

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This is the sound enhancing mute I will try to make. Just a rough conceptual sketch right now.

@ButchA
I am sad to say there are some folks who like both the Mets and the Yankees.....in my mind, I agree with you, Butch, if you are a true met fan, you should really hate the Yankees.
Historically, there were no bigger Yankee haters than were Brooklyn Dodger Fans, with good reason! Yankees beat the, in the series far too many times! My Dad was a life long Brooklyn Dodger fan and never recovered when they moved to LA. He never once showed a liking for them and couldn’t seem to land on any other team to like. He became sort of a Cubs fan, since they seemed to have a similar fate with World Series failure and such. I usually tell people that I have two favorite teams: the Mets, and anyone who happens to be playing the Yankees on a given day! I actually had an opportunity to go to a Yankees pre game locker room chapel service. I did not avail myself of such an opportunity. I felt I would feel as though I was being a total phony and would feel as though I betrayed my beloved Mets.

@BigDub while on the subject of Play Ball, here are some thoughts: I feel a batter does not deserve to get to run to first base when he has just struck out, as in when the third strike is dropped by the catcher. It’s not like he accomplished something. He missed the ball. He didn’t hit it. This just happened. And it was someone from my team that made it safely to first base.
If that can be done, why can’t the batter tag up on his own fly ball out? Now that would make things interesting!

@ButchA
I was born a little too early to be a Mets fan. There were no Mets, Mariners, Orioles, at least by that name in Baltimore, Angels, Astros, Brewers, Rockies, Expos, Toronto Blue Jays, Nationals , Twins, or Marlins when I was born, either.
I think the Phillies were the Blue Jays very, very early on, by the way. I have visited the Baseball hall of fame at least three times, and I try to read everything in front of me!

@GeorgeB said in Welcome to TrumpetBoards!:

@Dr-GO

You're a riot, Doc ...
He needs zero encouragement.

@tjcombo said in A little humour:

@BigDub the trombone guys are way ahead of us...

Haha. Good one. As if the trombones could possibly be ahead of us on anything.
Last night during Band practice, the director said to the trumpet section, "can you be louder on that part?" Of course, I said. We can ALWAYS be louder!
I felt comfortable speaking for the group. I was the fastest to answer, too. Maybe that was it.

@Dr-GO said in Trumpets Made ONLY by Their Maker:

@Trumpetsplus said in Trumpets Made ONLY by Their Maker:

There is some confusing and incorrect information about various trumpet brands in this thread. BTW here are some photos on this page of an ascending valve trumpet I finished in my South Salem, NY workshop last week.
http://www.jaegerbrass.com/jaeger-ascending-c.html

Ivan! OMG it is so good to have you with us! Please make the corrections as you are the ultimate authority (utimate in case you missed the TM spelling). I anxiously await your corrections, Grand Master!
Doesn’t Ivan actually qualify as a maker of trumpets, bearing his name, that is, if you consider "Jaeger" to be the German word for Hunter?

@Dr-GO when does the trumpet come in?

@ButchA said in Play Ball:

Baseball?

I was born, bred, and raised, and diehard NY Mets fan!

As a kid growing up in upstate New York (Poughkeepsie) -- roughly 2 hours, including traffic, from NYC, we would always go down to Shea Stadium (now Citi Field) and see the Mets play ball. So many wonderful memories!

Edit (to make this trumpet related): Can you imagine playing trumpet in the stadium, out on the field at 2nd base or something? Or play like The Beatles did back in the day, and have so many screaming fans, that you can't even hear yourself play? LOL...

LET'S GO METS!!!

Me, too. Diehard Mets fan. They actually look like there is some Hope this year. Though I say this same thing every year around this time......I was originally a Yankee fan until my idol Mickey Mantle started to decline and in my young idealistic mind thought he was not hustling any more. I disgustedly turned to the Mets and was quite entertained by them. I had no expectations and they were met....pun intended. Now I am incurable. Help!

@Kehaulani said in Play Ball:

I've got a personally autographed ball too - the BROOKLYN Dodgers. Mid 50s. Includes an autograph of my role model at the time, Roy Campanella.

My Dad was the biggest Brooklyn Dodger fan. Jackie Robinson was his favorite, but when Roy Campanella had the accident right near our home on Long Island, he was devastated. My brother and I were very young at the time
and thought someone very close to him had died. We didn’t understand the significance at the time.