Best posts made by Dale Proctor

It’s also a useful technique to use when you have to come in on a pp note, especially after a significant number of rest measures.

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@GeorgeB said in What is this Conn? Should I purchase?:

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Whatever model it is, to me it looks like a WW1 relic...

Here’s the nice one I recently sold. A 1929 model, sold it locally for $350. The buyer said he planned on offering me less, but after seeing It and playing it, he paid me the full price.

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

@dale-proctor said in Traits that make a great sight reader?:

What we really need is an app that just plays the dang trumpet for us...

I know you don’t want that

Of course I was joking, but I don’t want to follow the bouncing ball on an iPad that turns the pages for me, either...

I agree - the Bach 1-1/2C lends itself to producing a much nicer overall sound than the Bach 3C. In my experience, the 1-1/2C isn’t significantly more demanding to play than the 3C, either. I was surprised to discover that when I bought the 1-1/2C. The cup doesn’t really feel any wider than the 3C, but is a bit deeper. Disclaimer...your mileage may vary...lol

Welcome to the forum! Glad you picked up the instrument again and joined us.

I’ll be using this field trumpet to sound Taps. A real musical instrument made by Kanstul, this one pitched in Bb. I use a Bach 6BM trumpet mouthpiece in it, which I found to give good intonation and a nice tone. I keep it in an old American-wrap cornet case. Practice mute is for warming up a bit in the car at the cemetery before a military burial.

There’s an active duty military family that live across the street, and they plan on stepping outside to listen. Just today, I found out their oldest son, who is 10, has recently begun taking trumpet lessons, so he will probably have a special interest in it.

@Curlydoc said in What is this Conn? Should I purchase?:

Does the extra tuning slide lower the pitch, an by how much?

On the 22B, the tuning slide with the rotary valve places the horn in the key of A when the valve is turned one way, and in Bb when turned the other way.

The Marine Band, “The Presidents Own”, is basically a professional band with no boot camp or other military service required. I believe if a person auditions and makes it, there’s just some military etiquette and uniform instruction required. No PT, firearm training, etc. All the other service bands require the members to be regular military, whose primary job is to play in the band.

And another thread jumps the shark...

Best of luck for your return to trumpet playing. You’ve got the tone, so the rest should follow with a bit of work.

@J-Jericho said in Taps Across America:

@Dale-Proctor I'm glad the cancer was removed and hope that the procedure took care of the problem. I wish you a speedy and complete recovery!

Thanks! They found it early and got clean margins, so that should be all. They had to take a skin graft from my leg, though, and my leg is killing me. This too shall pass…

@Kehaulani
That’s pretty tempting, but I’ll pass for now...lol

I played in church last Sunday (socially distanced quintet), and my wife and I just got our 2nd Covid shots this morning. Already scheduled to play in a brass choir on Easter and have a probable July 4th gig in the works. Playing opportunities seem to be picking up a bit, and my worries about catching or spreading it are fading fast.

@Kehaulani
If I remember correctly (it’s been a year or two since I did it), I noticed more of a difference in response than anything else. I left it that way for a few weeks and never warmed up to the change. I did the alignment on 4 or 5 instruments - one was perfect the way it was so I didn’t change anything, one or two seemed to play better, and one or two played worse to me.

Trumpet capos are literally a figment of the imagination...lol.

@GeorgeB said in Trumpet Board Remote Performance:

@Dale-Proctor
Quite a feat, Dale. You have my deep, deep respect.

Thank you, George, for the kind remarks. It really wasn’t that difficult a thing to do, though. The music, while interesting, wasn’t that difficult to play once we were familiar with it. As I said before, the piece we played at the specified breakneck speed, with a relentless click track, was somewhat of a challenge and as I told a few others, you have to get tunnel vision on the chart and pay attention to nothing but the click track. There were no retards, holds, or anything else in that piece to watch the conductor for, so it was pedal to the metal.

1960 6B Victor, original lacquer. Great instrument, just like the one I had in high school. Basically a Connstellation without the trigger and nickel plated bell.

I’m trying to break the pinky ring habit as we speak, and also paying attention to my posture and breath support while playing. As I’m getting older, I need to stop making things harder than they need to be.

@tmd
Yeah, my homegrown valve alignments weren’t PVA, in the sense that I didn’t use rubber “felts”. I just used an assortment of regular felts to do mine. I wasn’t worried about any long term felt compression - I could tell right away if I liked the result, and kept the old felts in the correct order in case I needed to undo the new alignment.