Best posts made by Dale Proctor

Nice article! The one exception to the boot camp requirement is the “President’s Own” USMC band in Washington.

@Mike-Ansberry said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Dale-Proctor You are the famous Bob Pixley! Wow, I am impressed.

No, I just used his name instead of my own on this site for a while.

What about that spray made to disinfect mouthpieces? Label says 70% propanol, plus water and flavoring. Is it harmful? Effective?

This is a very good one, and I think they can still be found.

@rowuk said in $800 Box of Mouthpieces!:

We are creatures of habit and I firmly believe that THIS is the #1 reason for mouthpiece safaris not working.
I believe that we need MONTHS to determine if a mouthpiece is good for us. The process is called acclimation. We must practice, adapt and perform to cover our use cases.

My personal practice is, and has always been to cold turkey switch and stick with the "new" for at least 2 months - no switching back to the original. After that two - three months, I retry the original and note the differences. My last switch was in 1996.

I can generally tell within a day or two (sometimes much sooner) if I don’t like a mouthpiece, but yes, it takes quite a bit of playing one in different situations to tell if I REALLY like one. I’ve played a 3C on trumpet since the early 1980s, but I did switch from a Bach 3C to a Curry 3C. about 6 years ago, and haven’t looked back. It was familiar to me, so the transition was easy, and it was so much better! I generally play a Curry 3BBC. on cornet, too. I accumulated all those cornet mouthpieces over the years partly due to curiosity, and partly due to keeping some of the mouthpieces that came with horns I bought and sold.

@J-Jericho said in Doubling on tenor sax:

@Dale-Proctor The mouthpieces in your Bach Mercedes case look fairly deep... or is that an illusion?

They are what I’d call a medium C-cup depth. The gold one (top one) is a Connstellation 9C-W, and the silver one is a Curry 3C.

@grune said in Vintage Bach Club:

vintage
noun
1: a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
2: the oldness of wines

each year is a vintage. how is this related to trumpets?

You left one out...

3 a : a period of origin or manufacture : a piano of 1845 vintage
__b : length of existence : AGE

Here’s a picture of one on a 1960s model Holton cornet.

As OSE said, you can make a functioning one from a long stainless steel screw from the hardware store. I did that for an old Reynolds cornet that was missing one.

Sonny Dalton metal sculpture, given to me for Christmas many years ago by my sister-in-law. The smokestack is a Bach Strad 43L bell...

@Dr-GO
You’re too late - I’ve already autographed at least 3 or 4 CDs...lol

Well, of course air is needed to play the trumpet. I see this as a fairly useless discussion, since the video was concerned with how much air was needed for a person to play the trumpet, not IF any air was needed. Let’s see someone play a trumpet without blowing any air through their lips. Something has to initiate a sound wave, and for a human to “play” the trumpet, air is the initiator.

I have a ca. 1870 Henry Lehnert cornet, and looked 15+ years for a Lehnert small shank mouthpiece to fit it. I finally found one about 10 months ago, and the old horn plays great with it.

About a week ago another one (gold plated) turned up on eBay, and although I didn’t need it, I bought it anyway. It’s slightly different from the silver one I previously found, about 2 mm longer, a slightly smaller throat, and the cup feels slightly wider. Anyway, now I have two!…lol

@tptguy said in 40's Holton info:

What I have to work with, note, there where 2 gaskets, they are leather, don't know if they are originally suplied on this..one disingrated in the initial bath. Also I assume I reinstall one nut in the wrong place, but it was to keep the screw tight.

That reminds me a little of the old Conn stop rod setup. One bumper to cushion the throw and another to cushion the return.

@veery said in Railroad Photography:

First one reminds me of BigDub's paintings.

Me too. That’s why I led off with it.

@georgeb

Man, that’s a beauty! I bet it plays like a dream, too - congratulations.

@_mark_

So, what mouthpiece is giving you the pain?

Took a few pics today. We live on a mountain, so our “gardening” tends to favor the natural.

Ah...ain’t retirement great!

Welcome! Our local concert band sponsors a New Horizons program, and a few folks have already “graduated” to the concert band. Glad to hear you’re playing again and hope you have fun with it.

@Gendreauj said in Conn.Coprion student ? trumpet.:

One of my first trumpets was a Conn Coprion. Loved the color of the trumpet. Good student horn for the time and built like a tank.
Would love to find a copper professional horn.

Conn made a few, like the 10B Artist trumpet and the 9A Victor cornet. I have a 1962 Conn 9A cornet and it’s a great instrument.