Posts made by BigDub

@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.

All this mute talk. I am now working on a trumpet volume enhancer mute. Stay tuned.

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

Hey BigDub... I found that high performance stereo cub mute you lost on your last vacation:

Wait a minute. I was never in Brazil. I have the black one, anyway.

@Newell-Post there are attachments that can be installed. Like a dog whistle. No one but your dog will hear it, but it will produce some monster high notes.

@Tobylou8 I can’t read microfilm either.

One of the guys I play trumpet with has only one trumpet to his name.....
Just kidding.

@pss
When I saw the topic I was all set to say....place it carefully in the small hole opposite....
but never mind. That would be childish.

@Dr-GO said in Tom Green:

@Tobylou8 said in Tom Green:

One of the best looking trumpets ever!!!

And the sound is even better. Not sure if anyone has ever played a Power Bore, but it has laser sharp accuracy. It was the PERFECT horn for 2nd Trumpet big band charts where the harmonies are so tight between the lead and 3rd part. You did not have to rely on your ear with this horn, you just aim the valves on the right note, and bull's eye, there it was.

The horn projects like no other traditional horn and I used it a lot as a lead horn as well until I got my Harrelson.

Well, now that you don’t need it any longer..............

@Dr-GO said in Kanstul -- Any News?:

@Tobylou8 said in Kanstul -- Any News?:

Tubas are gone for sure.

Tubas or not Tobas, That is the question!

Trying my hardest not to edit............Trying my hardest not to edit............Trying my hardest not to edit............. Trying my hardest not to edit.........

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

Ahhh... a picture of my ancestors!

But it was an unhappy ending for them. The Jericho people, that is......

Not much humor to be found in some aspects of Caananite culture, to be sure. The concept of trumpets playing a part in effecting conquest over evil can be considered a positive thing, can it not?

Oh, yes, indeed.
I was, of course, spinning a little humor on the fact that those walls and towers depicted in the background are almost definitely supposed to be the walls of Jericho....no harm intended, J.J.
But the words added to that classic etching were unbelievably clever, for us blowers. And that is our goal, to at least take the paint off the walls, if not take them down.

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

Ahhh... a picture of my ancestors!

But it was an unhappy ending for them. The Jericho people, that is......

@flugelgirl
1914 Frank Holton Revelation. Still in nice shape. Played it a couple of times, belongs to our group, Stone Hill Brass.

@J-Jericho said in Favorite Cornet:

@BigDub said in Favorite Cornet:

1914 Frank Holton Revelation....I play it, but don’t own it...
Not bad at all.

Looks like you got swatted by the picture police.

Roger that.

1914 Frank Holton Revelation....I play it, but don’t own it...
Not bad at all.