Here’s another one I recently sold. It went to a friend of mine who doesn’t play, but collects various musical instruments. 1969 Conn 76A Connquest cornet, same basic wrap as an Olds Recording cornet. I advertised it here and numerous other sites for months and finally sold it cheap. 
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@administrator said in Railroad Photography:
I bought a CNC machine. I wonder if I could sell CNC made toy trains. Seems like it could be a hit.
I don’t know. Trains are so...19th century, you know? 
I used to be into building custom HO gauge locomotives, but I got that out of my system...
This one ran on a local line back in the early 1980s.
"There are two sides to a trumpeter's personality: there is the one that lives only to lay waste to the woodwinds and strings, leaving them lying blue and lifeless along the swath of destruction that is a trumpeter's fury; then there's the dark side...."
--Michael Stewart
@administrator said in Please help:
It looks like a Conn 22B. Note, however, that the case says 1000B. So, I don't know.
I’m sure that’s not a 1000B trumpet, which was a 1970s or 1980s “Doc Severinsen” student model. I suppose it was just a case procured to replace the nasty original one.
@J-Jericho said in A little humour:
Subject: Word Play
- ARBITRATOR A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonald’s
- BERNADETTE The act of torching a mortgage.
- BURGLARIZE What a crook sees through
- AVOIDABLE What a bullfighter tries to do
- EYEDROPPER Clumsy ophthalmologist
- CONTROL A short, ugly inmate.
- COUNTERFEITER Workers who put together kitchen cabinets
- ECLIPSE What an English barber does for a living.
- LEFT BANK What the bank robbers did when their bag was full of money.
- HEROES What a man in a boat does
- PARASITES What you see from the Eiffel Tower
- PARADOX Two physicians
- PHARMACIST A helper on a farm
- POLARIZE What penguins see through
- PRIMATE Remove your spouse from in front of TV
- RELIEF What trees do in the spring
- RUBBERNECK What you do to relax your wife
- SELFISH What the owner of a seafood store does
- SUDAFED Brought litigation against a government official
- PARADIGMS Twenty cents
- BUCCANEER The price of corn
I had to add #21...
I’ve whittled down my cornet collection to 4 keepers:
#1 - a circa 1870 Henry Lehnert SARV made of German silver, with Allen oval port valves.
#2 - an 1890 Besson (London) Nuevo Etoile, A/Bb/C, silver plated.
#3 - a 1962 Conn 9A Victor, with Coprion bell and leadpipe.
#4 - a 1993 large bore Bach Stradivarius 184G, with gold brass bell and “Stradivarius Deluxe” engraving.
@OldSchoolEuph
Actually, he sailed to the U.S. on the Lusitania in September 1914, and the ship was sunk by a German U-boat 8 months later in May 1915. Here’s a copy of the passenger manifest.
Josh Landress posted this pic on a Facebook page today. He has apparently acquired the personal cornet of Jean-Baptist Arban, made in the late 1840s. No other photos at this time...
I’d just get an inexpensive set of caps that fit correctly and have them copper plated. As part of an overhaul years ago, I had an entire bell copper plated, and it wasn’t very expensive at the time.
Free download to anyone who wants it - just go to the web site printed on the front of the card. Here’s the link below...
I’ll leave any band that requires that nonsense. I play mainly for enjoyment, and that’s not enjoyable. Pure silliness - how on earth can you get a good breath while playing? If the mask transmits air well enough to get a good quick breath, it won’t stop any germs or viruses. I’ve already played a gig (late last year) that those were ‘strongly suggested’, and they had free ones for everyone. I declined, as did about half the other brass players. We were already seated about 8’ apart and wore masks anytime we weren’t playing.
Happy Easter! I played a Good Friday service, a 3-hour rehearsal on Wednesday night, a Tenebrae service, and an Easter service. Around 10 orchestral pieces, about half of them with the choir, and uncounted hymns (luckily not playing on every verse). I’m worn out, and am taking a few days off without touching a mouthpiece to my lips.
Our orchestra played through Handel’s 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain’ two times in a rehearsal Easter morning before the church service, and the third time, it was the last piece we played in the service. I played 1st part on my Bb trumpet. Brutal…
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I played the 1st Cornet part on Schuman’s ‘When Jesus Wept' at the Tenebrae service on Friday night. I rarely get to play cornet in our church orchestra, so it was a treat!!
I would not appreciate anyone recording me when I practice. I usually work on exercises and pieces I can’t play (or can’t play very well). That’s a big part of the path to improvement, and is not meant for public consumption. As for the warts recorded in a public performance, one of the guys in our band would say “That’s the beauty of live music.” Many audiences just appreciate the music, and a glitch here or there just shows we are all human. There are also the folks who revel in picking out mistakes, and even if the performance was 99.9% perfect, they focus on that one wrong or out of tune note, sloppy articulation, etc. Unfortunately, I used to be my own worst critic, but now I’m happy if most of what I play is good, and I have a short memory for the occasional wart. My response to critics is, if you can do better, come on up on stage and show me…
