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@georgeb said in Made this recording this morning:

@bigdub

It played OK for me, Wayne.
Woweee !!! some great mixing there. You must have a neat recording set-up.
And it sounds like the Glen Miller arrangement. The trumpet solo was right on.
Loved it, buddy.
George

Thanks a lot, George! It is really not a terribly technical set up. The thing is I have been messing around with GarageBand for some time and by looking at tutorials on YouTube and trial and error on my part I have been able to work out a lot of kinks. I have a fairly good mic.
I incorporate MuseScore which enables me to export mp3 files for parts that I can’t easily duplicate, like tuba, or piano, and drums, but sometimes I do my own drums and bass as well. I make these recordings from my living room couch. That is no lie!

@dr-go said in Made this recording this morning:

@bigdub I tried to play this but got the message you are potentially dangerous and risky so my security would not allow me to play. I guess my question is... Are You?

Thanks Ah, I will send you an email invite. I was afraid that might happen.

Did anyone else try to listen and couldn’t get it to play? Let me know and I will try to fix it. Or else put it on SoundCloud. It isn’t a copyright issue I don’t think.

I met Joe Hetman when he came and played a concert with my community band as a sub. I had only a brief conversation about his oil and said I would be interested in getting some from him. That was it. No further contact. One of our next gigs, another trumpet player drops a brown paper bag down on my lap, saying his friend Joe Hetman wanted you to have this. A bottle of valve oil, ( the correct number that I needed, by the way) a bottle of slide oil, and a bottle of slide grease.
All this, having only had that one conversation with me.
Nice guy, but not the end of the story. Later on, at a Chris Botti concert in New Brunswick, as I was leaving, someone says, “hey, Wayne, how are you doing?” And when he sees my blank look, says, “ Joe, Joe Hetman” I tried to quickly recover, and apologized profusely for forgetting who he was, but it had been a couple of years, after all.
Imagine that? He must have some memory, and that is why I think he is a genuinely great guy. I do like his valve oil regardless of that fact.

Made this recording. This morning. [link text](link url)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/64own81h26q3ups/String of Pearls 2 - 5_17_22%2C 10.13 AM.mp3?dl=0

I don’t buzz. For those who were interested.

@georgeb said in Artist on BOARD:

@bigdub

Watching you do that painting brought back memories of when I used to play around with watercolors. If there are any other artist members here they will learn a lot watching that video.
By the way, GREAT PAINTING !
George

Thank you George! And thanks for watching. I appreciate that you did.

If you would like to see a demo video on YouTube of this painting I just finished, it’s @

Here is the painting ( and thanks, Steve Smith for encouraging me to put it up! )

@georgeb said in YouTube Suggestion:

@bigdub

Ha ha, you are correct. But I think they'd make an exception for an old goat like me....

For you, definitely.

@georgeb said in YouTube Suggestion:

@j-jericho

WOW ! If I could play that good I would be playing first chair with The Canadian Brass...

George

They usually stand, George.

Well, I must be the number one driver in NJ as indicated by the single finger raised in my direction. What else could it be?

@kehaulani said in Wynton Marsalis trumpet:

Rather obtuse, LOL But yes. I get it.
I thought it was acute one

@bigdub

Remember: every dead body left on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so, maybe, calm down.

@kehaulani said in Wynton Marsalis trumpet:

It's a play on words on the old elocution exercise, "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain".

There's (or was) a well-known Rogers & Hammerstein song in "My Fair Lady" that uses it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmADMB2utAohis phrase.

Yes. I knew that. My post was an addition to the poem, which also rhymed, in case you didn’t notice. “……mainly on the plain” please explain. See?

@kehaulani
Please explain

@barliman2001 said in The 15 Best Miles Davis Quotes:

I can only counter this with how Maurice André once described trumpet playing to me:
"Playing se trompette is like singing, just wisout a sore throat."

I felt that name drop vibration all the way over here in America.

When I post a photo, this is what I see, and I tap the circled icon shown here, then choose- photo library and that’s what works on my iPad.
I know it’s not android, but what works for me

Finished this one recently. Our nephew took some great photos of Portland Head Lighthouse in Maine just a little while ago and I asked if I could use some of the photos. He was happy to let me use them. I made a couple of changes, as always.

@ssmith1226
Actually it was made by Blessing, in Elkhart, Indiana, and people who are in the know have told me that it was equivalent to the Super Artist model. I just donated it last June to a school district in Western Idaho for some youngster to learn on as well.

@ssmith1226
Or a Sears, Roebuck Catalog trumpet, as did I.

@kehaulani
Pretty sure there are horns with better intonation than others.
Otherwise we would all be playing Bundy's.
True?