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Nice! I played that with a couple other trumpet players at an outdoor community concert band concert about 40 years ago. The other guys weren’t really good double-tonguers, so I played the solo version while they played the 2nd and 3rd trio parts.

I am speaking of the playing back of recordings only.

If a note is played on let us say a trombone and the slide is lengthened the pitch falls but there is no tempo as such it is a single note.

If this pitch is played within a piece of music then there are notes preceding and notes following the note in question.

Now we have tempo and pitch together.

If we record this music consisting of pitch and tempo and we speed up the playback of the recording then the pitch rises, they are locked together by the recording medium.

If we slow the playback the pitch falls, again they are locked together.

We can of course in a live performance slow the tempo while keeping the pitches correct, but the thread was only concerned with playing back on a computer, a recording of a performance and the pitch changed while the tempo of the recording was unchanged.

With a cd or a tape recording or a pressed LP, if you alter the tempo you alter the pitch.

Computers can however take a recording with a tempo and pitches and slow the tempo while keeping the pitch constant, or change the pitch without altering the tempo.

I therefore have said pitch and tempo in the real world are locked together but in the computer world they are not locked together.

Or do you perhaps know of a way of changing the speed of a gramaphone or of a tape machine without altering the pitches. I have never seen that I would be very interested in learning of it.

As opposed to pentecostal scale in which voicings are randomly scaled and anything goes for tempo.

@georgeb
Just to clarify, I never saw the dog. Alive, or in person. Ever. Just one snapshot from the friend who asked me to do it.
Fortunately for me, it was a good photograph, and what she wanted me to use. But thanks just the same, George. I always appreciate your kind words.

Waves are so easy to paint . . badly. Nice job.

@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?

to you? nah. Unless the playing causes permanent hearing damage, then, well..........

@seth-of-lagos

Fantastic, Seth, thank you for that.
George

@dale-proctor said in Here's something I recorded:

@georgeb said in Here's something I recorded:

@dale-proctor
I've done some playing with a brass quintet. Unfortunately it broke up due to Covid. If we start up again I will suggest adding a percussionist. Sounds interesting.

The only drawback is the gig money becomes a 6-way split…lol

Yeah, forgot about that. 😠 :

I dug a little deeper to find out more about this former elementary school student of my wife, who taught vocal music in Hillsborough, NJ for 40 years, now retired.
He attended Indiana University Bloomington and is now the principle horn player for the NYC Ballet. He also subs for the Philadelphia Philharmonic and way too many other groups to keep up with!
I will not mention here anything specific in the interest of privacy, but suffice it to say, he overcame some pretty big obstacles. I think I can say that?

I paint you humble. Well played BidDub, Well played!

@dr-go
I suppose having the right equipment helps, but an F above high C for me only happens on a good day, so at my age I doubt even a Harrelson Summit would help me get to DHC.

Besides, Doc, what videos I've seen of you playing puts you in a professional's chair as far as I'm concerned. I'm just an old recreational player.

@georgeb said in Traits that make a great sight reader?:

Well at 85 I wouldn't mind having an app that played the dang trumpet for me. I just play for the applause anyway.

I guess you could buy one of those electronic bugles that plays Taps and use it for military funerals, but there would be no applause...

@barliman2001 said in Special music reading glasses:

@barliman2001 440593533_18014694329462503_5039288911830289206_n.jpg
And that is how the orchestra looked like, in the Teatro Civico Salvatore Cicero in Cefalu... (here with Brahms' Double Concerto)

With the use of your music glasses? I see. Hmmm

Correction on the picture I posted : when a print was made from the negative, the neg was flipped. I incorrectly look like a left handed player. This next picture was printed correctly: IMG_20140921_0002_NEW.jpg

@bigdub said in Phony players:

@barliman2001 said in Phony players:

@Dale-Proctor said in Phony players:

@BigDub said in Phony players:

On the show, Hogan’s Heroes, Colonel Klink Would occasionally play the violin, much to the discomfort of those who happened to be in the same room.
He looked rather convincing, but if you looked closely, there weren’t even any strings on the instrument!

Interesting factoid - Werner Klemperer’s father was Otto Klemperer, the famous orchestral conductor.

Even more interesting - quite a number of the actors in that show were either of Jewish descent or had lost family and friends due to Nazi terror.

Yes, I was aware of that as well. John ( Johann ) Banner, Sgt. Schultz, a Jew, was born in Prussia, now Austria, I believe, saw what was happening and came to the US. Joined the US army and served in World War II. Became a prolific actor even while in a Austria and later in the States. Early in his American acting experiences he had to learn his lines phonetically because he did not yet speak English.
I think he has to be my favorite of all of them.

Until you brought this fact to light, "I know nothing "!

@dr-go said in On the, “ I wish I had had a little more sense of history” topic......:

@georgeb said in On the, “ I wish I had had a little more sense of history” topic......:

@kehaulani

I actually like playing Strangers In The Night, but I skip the Dooby dooby dooo at the end.

I sing Strangers In The Night if I first partake of some Dobby dooby dooos just prior to said song breakout...

This is of course legal in Colorado... and of more recent, New Jersey, as BigDub probably knows.... and perhaps, we may see more abstract art offerings from BigDub as a result, yes?

Well, if I was so inclined, there would probably be a lot less productivity.
As far as playing Strangers in The Night, I seem to end up playing more TO strangers in the night. They haven’t heard me play yet, so I can surprise them at least until they can escape for the exit

@Dr-GO said in Set lists:

@Dr-Mark said in Set lists:

Hi Dr-GO
..."If you play a wrong note or passage, do it twice. That way the audience will think it was intentional and you were just being
avant-garde"

That's EXACTLY what I do! That's EXACTLY what I do!

And then you write it twice, too, also.