@Dr-GO said in Another Christmas gig is in the books:
I played a Christmas Concert at a local club 2 nights ago where one of my big bands performs every 3rd Thursday evening…
In fact, here is a close up of me "light up" after returning from the break:
Here’s a dark photo of me (the guy with some hair…lol) playing at the tree last weekend.
I’d like to hear any recordings of either of the two gigs you mentioned if you get the chance. Your playing is always great!
I played in this production with about 150 singers and a 50 piece orchestra at our church. Dress rehearsal was a week ago Wednesday, one performance Thursday, one Friday, three on Saturday, a church service Sunday morning, and the last performance Sunday night. About 10,000 free tickets were distributed, and the sanctuary was packed at every performance. BTW, the orchestra played 3 pieces as the crowd was coming in that aren’t part of the recording.
https://vimeo.com/895431905?fbclid=IwAR0TaKir1JG4zMpTTOfm2gX-qggf2se1iLXkpox3wHMvuuoQC6xCXx2BGTQ
Just saw this post, so I’ll resurrect it for this cornet. 1962 Conn 9A Victor short cornet. Coprion bell and leadpipe, in really nice original condition.
@Dr-GO said in Future survival of this forum:
@tjcombo said in Future survival of this forum:
Of late, life has been getting in the way of browsing this and other social media (both good and not so good distractions). At 67y.o. I’m contemplating retirement from a rewarding job that I love, to do other things, musical and other, that I love a little more.
I contemplated retiring at 65. Did so, and within 2 months started a new career. I am now 68 and no where near planning on retiring.
I retired at 67 and never looked back…I’m 71 now and don’t miss working at all. I enjoyed the nuts and bolts of my work (I was engineering manager for a fire suppression contractor), but the decline of the quality of the construction industry and increasing governmental red tape every year made my job a daily headache. After retiring, I bought a sports car, we upsized to a nicer home, and now I’m trying to get back into good playing shape and making good progress. 
@Paul-Cote
Some trumpets have it stamped on the valve block. If you can find the specs on your trumpet, the bore size is sometimes given in mm or inch measurements. If you have calipers, you can measure the inside diameter of the second valve slide tubing (not the slide receiver). How that measurement relates to a bore size designated by small, medium, medium large, large, or extra large depends on the measurement range the manufacturer chooses. For example, the same bore measurement on horns from two different makers may be called medium large by one and large by the other. There are no hard and fast rules on what’s what, just general ranges of what constitutes a bore designation.
@dr-go said in Future survival of this forum:
@dale-proctor said in Future survival of this forum:
I check this forum daily, but rarely see anything that interests me enough to reply. Most of my posts seem to interest very few people, and receive very few responses. Maybe it’s just me…lol
Dale I always love your posts and try to reply whenever I can, but you say it so well, sometimes I just cannot add to the quality you deliver.
I check this forum daily, but rarely see anything that interests me enough to reply. Most of my posts seem to interest very few people, and receive very few responses. Maybe it’s just me…lol
Sorry to hear that! 
Hope you have a full, speedy recovery!
I’d guess it means to play into a hat mute, but if you don’t have one, playing into the stand will do,
Here’s another…
About a week before Christmas one year, I got a frantic phone call from a large church in town to see if I could take a trumpet player’s spot in a big Christmas show (with 100 member choir and a full orchestra) that had just completed its 3rd performance out of six. The person on 2nd trumpet had become miffed about something and walked out, the next performance was in a couple hours, and it was slated to be recorded for TV.
I said yes, showed up and sight read the performance pretty well, because the music wasn’t as difficult as I had feared. I was hired for the rest of the performances and received the full stipend. I assume the awol trumpet player received nothing.
My wife and I went to see an outdoor performance of a big band I had been a member of in years past. The band leader saw me in the audience, and after a few more charts, he told the crowd I was there and had me stand up. After some applause, he said to come on up and play a song with them. More applause, so I couldn’t refuse. I went up on stage, a friend handed me his trumpet, and on an unfamiliar trumpet and mouthpiece, with no warm up, we kicked off String of Pearls the fastest I’d ever tried to play it. Of course, I ended up with the solo, and I luckily made it through pretty well, even at breakneck speed. More applause, and I returned to my seat…lol
@administrator said in Smallest car trunk I’ve ever had:
Yeah, Miatas are a lot of fun, but very tiny!
Yes, in city traffic I feel like a roach who’s about to be stepped on…lol. I ride motorcycles, and it takes the same mindset to drive one of these. Here’s the view from my window at a stop light.
I took a couple photos on the way home from an orchestra rehearsal tonight. My trumpet case fits in the center recess of the trunk, and that’s about it…lol
Looks like it takes a cornet mouthpiece or a smaller proprietary trumpet mouthpiece. That trumpet mouthpiece just barely goes into the receiver.
Somewhere along the way, Bach started putting a saddle on the 1st valve slide. Before they did that, the 1st valve slide was symmetrical - both legs on the slide were inner legs and the outer slide tubes were both attached to the 1st valve case. Yours are set up for a saddle, so I’d guess someone switched the saddle for a ring. Or, someone went to the trouble of fitting all the 1st valve slide parts (except the saddle) from a later horn to it.
I played with a brass quintet in a church service yesterday morning. We played along with the the hymns and then a couple patriotic numbers for the offertory and the postlude. That evening we played for a BBQ dinner and recognition of veterans. No other playing planned for the 4th.
I just found another photo of the Bavarian band that I haven’t seen in about 35 years. I’ll post it here for posterity. I see that I was also playing trumpet on some of the songs. I think that trumpet is the 1955 Mt. Vernon ML43 Strad that I sold about 20 years ago.
