Posts made by Dale Proctor

@OldSchoolEuph
Well, when you knowingly torpedo a civilian passenger ship, you probably need to be seen in a negative light...

@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.

Old photo of Vinzenz Schrottenbach, aka Vincent Bach.

@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.

@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.

Who’s seen one of these old-school valve alignment tools before? I bought it a few years ago, and it works, but a couple of the horns I aligned played better before messing with them, and I switched the pads back to how they were. Either it was because I was used to them that way, or they actually played better with a small amount of mis-alignment.

To me, any instrument without a serial # or a name on the bell is a TSO (trumpet shaped object). Of course, one having that identification on it doesn’t mean it isn’t a TSO, either.

Anyone ever seen one of these? I think they’ve been out of print for many years, but there’s some cool stuff in it. Basic instruction on playing the instruments, field trumpet (bugle) and drum parts for 80+ calls, and even a few marches with multiple bugle parts.

@Dr-GO said in In Tune. With what?:

@ROWUK said in In Tune. With what?:

This thread will show the "foolishness" of putting "slotting" high on the list of trumpet priorities. We need flexibility to play in tune.

There is a "bible" on intonation written by Chris Leuba - a former horn player with the Chicago Symphony. I am not sure if it is still in print, but it is certainly worth having.

https://www.hornguys.com/products/a-study-of-musical-intonation-by-christopher-leuba-pub-cherry

Maybe this is my chance to be more educated with a response but is "slotting" and playing in tune the same thing?

Slotting is the tendency of a horn to center on a certain frequency on every note, and it takes more effort to lip or bend notes on them. It’s nice to know where the horn tends to go on any given note, but can be harder to compensate if it doesn’t go where you initially need it to.

With any group, you tune to the tuning note, and then you listen as you play and play in tune with what’s happening (assuming the ensemble are all doing that). I learned the extreme example of that while playing 19th century literature with a group, all of us using 19th century brass instruments. It took a concerted group effort of knowing your instrument, lipping notes, and employing alternate fingerings to play pleasing in-tune music for the audience.

@grune said in Third valve:

@Curlydoc
https://trumpetboards.com/topic/747/jerome-wiss-6-20-trumpet

The Wiss line claims to have obviated the need for tuning slides.

Looks like a modern version of a compensating instrument.

A lot of older trumpets have a slightly longer 3rd valve slide, and you are expected to lip the notes using it into tune the rest of the way.

“Hello! Welcome to TB, who are you?“
Well, if you read this thread, you’ll know who we are. A bunch of prototypical trumpet players who have nothing better to do than argue on line...

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

Subject: Word Play

1. ARBITRATOR  A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonald’s
2. BERNADETTE   The act of torching a mortgage.
3. BURGLARIZE What a crook sees through
4. AVOIDABLE   What a bullfighter tries to do
5. EYEDROPPER  Clumsy ophthalmologist
6. CONTROL  A short, ugly inmate.
7. COUNTERFEITER  Workers who put together kitchen cabinets
8. ECLIPSE What an English barber does for a living.
9. LEFT BANK  What the bank robbers did when their bag was full of money.
10. HEROES  What a man in a boat does
11. PARASITES  What you see from the Eiffel Tower
12. PARADOX   Two physicians
13. PHARMACIST  A helper on a farm
14. POLARIZE   What penguins see through
15. PRIMATE  Remove your spouse from in front of TV
16. RELIEF   What trees do in the spring
17. RUBBERNECK  What you do to relax your wife
18. SELFISH  What the owner of a seafood store does
19. SUDAFED  Brought litigation against a government official
20. PARADIGMS  Twenty cents
21. BUCCANEER The price of corn

I had to add #21...

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.

@Dr-GO

My “regular” glasses are like that, but are set up for more medium distance in one lens, long distance in the other. I can still read without glasses, but had trouble with reading music at music stand distance, especially in low light situations. I measured what that distance typically is and went to my optometrist with glasses for that purpose in mind. I leave them in my case, and just switch them with my regular glasses before I sit down to play or practice. Fantastic!

What did the duck say when he was told he needed to buy a mask before he could enter the building?

“Just put it on my bill”...

@N1684T said in Hello! Welcome to TB, who are you?:

Whats the name of the civil war movie?

AJ

American Drummer Boy. I played Eb cornet in two different scenes, one as a US bandsman marching through town and the other as a CS bandsman playing a ball in a mansion. The US segment showing the band was cut. Was in one other scene not playing, just walking down a road in a column of troops. Drove to Kentucky two different weekends for a per diem and $50 a day as an extra. Big money...lol

Hello! I’m a long time cornet and trumpet (and sometimes flugelhorn) hack and ex-collector. Been playing since about 1963, played 1st trumpet in a concert band in the 1970s, was 3rd trumpet in a local semi-pro symphony orchestra for about 5 years in the 1980s, along with playing in a brass quintet and playing in the pit for numerous musicals, played Bb cornet all over the eastern U.S. in a Civil War brass band from the early 1990s until a couple years ago. We recorded one cassette tape and 4 CDs during that time, which to my surprise, sold by the thousands. I also played lead trumpet in a so-so big band for a number of years, subbed in a few more, subbed in a German band numerous times, was a founding member of a British-style brass band around 2000 and performed with them for about 15 years.

I had the privilege of recording about 20 Civil War era bugle calls on a period bugle for an interactive display at a museum in Alabama. I also participated in bands that recorded music for a couple Ken Burns PBS series, which was interesting. I played Eb cornet in a low-budget Civil War movie that went straight to DVD (lol), and also played in a Tennessee PBS special on music of the Civil War.

I retired from work (early on I worked for NASA, and then for a couple aerospace and defense contractors, but I spent the majority of my career designing fire suppression systems) at the beginning of 2020. Because most playing venues dried up due to the virus outbreak, I haven’t been doing much other than walking with my wife a lot, practicing a little, riding my vintage motorcycles, and eating healthy. When things return to normal, I play in a large church orchestra, sub in a couple big bands from time to time, play 2 or 3 Civil War gigs a year, and fill in on 2nd cornet in the brass band when needed.

There you have it - all you never wanted to know about me...

@Dr-GO said in Clean with 'alcohol'?:

@Dale-Proctor said in Clean with 'alcohol'?:

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

Once again, it will work on most organisms as noted by grune. And for mouthpieces, you really don't have to worry as much regarding maintaining the moist, warm environment that is trapped in the tubing the spore creating organisms of a closed horn system. So it should be fine to use, but I would recommend a rinse with plenty of water if using immediately after spraying. If you let the spray dry, it will be fine.

Thanks. Yes, the instructions say to let it dry before using the mouthpiece.