And I take this as a chance for a rebirth. gmonady is now Dr GO.

Prior to my retirement from my professorial gig at the medical school this past December, I taught muscle physiology in the first year medical student curriculum. We are at the mercy to the laws of physiology of muscle fiber development. So it takes about 2-6 weeks for muscle to adapt to new stress without damaging fibers. At the end of that 2-6 week span, one can add another 20% duration to the work out. So if 45 minutes is all you can do at this point, continue for several weeks at 45 minutes, than in that new week add 45 x 0.20 or about 10 minutes to the next week (55 minutes) and stay with that for another several weeks. Then advance another 20%. Keep doing this at these intervals until you reach your goal.

Let fatigue be your friend. When you loose control or start leaking air, step away from the horn for the day and start back at it tomorrow.

Let me know how this works out.

AND to the Chemists out there:

HAPPY EASTER from:

The Ether Bunny

I recommend that the Web Designer open up a Category Titled: Good Medicine for Musicians

@barliman2001 said in Is Air Needed To Play The Trumpet:

Ok, if there is no need to lock it, I won't. Just wanted to test the general feeling.

Very good, now we can all breathe a little easier. Total thumb's up barliman

My beloved flugelhorn the Kanstul 1526 (4 valve version)

AND a video of me playing the horn with one of the medical students I had the pleasure of teaching as a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HaK1sYi5_cfSw3C1N7Hv-Y9oA3PliAaR/view?fbclid=IwAR2fs6m-PILd5iR7l8d-GXalpj-EftHSLhNsNhiJxjSQeTqWlLkUF8lzHy0

@dale-proctor said in Latest Steal:

@masterwannabe

I paid $150 at a junk store for this ML 43…lol
(I added the case cover later, though)

Wow! JUST WOW.

@shifty said in Password expiry - why?:

I've been here since we started (March 2019) and have never been asked to change my password. I do stay logged in between sessions (usually).

I too have been here without log in problems with the exception of a brief period when a Moderator had unilaterally banned me off of TB out of a fit of rage. That Moderator was later permanently banned when his rage continued onto others here at TB, so in a way, I feel vindicated for that brief time away.

@ssmith1226 said in A little humour:

@bigdub

Oh... You're tripping alright!

I experienced this first hand (and still have it intact, THANK GOD) when I traveled to Saudi Arabi with my Pocket Trumpet. I had it confiscated 3x at airports I traveled through at the time (in 2014). Each time, it was returned to me by a superior agent after I had the chance to plea with them that I only intended to practice the horn in the privacy of my hotel room with a silent mute attachment (that I took out of the case and showed them). In each case, the horn was returned with the warning not to play in public.

I did play it once, during a celebration party of my visit, way out in the desert after I thought I had silently walked away from the host, where I played Caravan. As fate would have in, several host diplomates followed me out into the desert (unbeknownst by me) and heard me playing. I turned around to see applause. I returned from that party, hands intact.

@masterwannabe said in An Interesting Situation I ran Into Today - Wonder if anyone Else Has Or Your Thoughts:

Has anyone heard of any schools putting this kind of restriction on the students?
Yes I have and see my comment above

does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle a situation as this.
Yes, and see my comment above.

As a physician trained in both adult and pediatric medicine, I find ABC analysis works best at changing behavior. Your question is going to the point of a behavioral change, and if you can find an antecedent (A) to a behavior (B), Or rather a consequence (C) (preferentially a positive one) of such a behavior, the a behavior (recommendation of a specific instrument) can be changed.

@kehaulani said in An Interesting Situation I ran Into Today - Wonder if anyone Else Has Or Your Thoughts:

Tell the teacher the next conversation you will have is with the Superintendent of Schools.

I would not recommend going to the Superintendent as the fist course of action. I would fist go to the band director to ask them and where they get such information isolated to just two horns, and what it is of the quality of these two horns that led them to this recommendation. If they state it is because these companies donate to the program, then that is a reason to go to a Superintendents. But I doubt that if the Superintendent is first approached, that this would change the behavior of the band director.

Direct communication with the person making a recommendation is the first step to take in the art of communication. If the person making the decision does not hear directly of the conflict between themselves and others, then there is no conversation, and less then optimal decisions continue to be made.

@bigdub said in Artist on BOARD:

@dr-go said in Artist on BOARD:

Other than that, how did you like the painting?

Ahh... now asking me for second opinions. You think you can afford it?

@masterwannabe said in About Olds Ambassadors:

...I noticed very little difference in the sound... "it is not so much about the hardware but the software".

So true. I have found that the match between the appropriate mouthpiece shank and leadpipe bore can make or break the sound generated by a horn. This takes me back in memory to a lesson I had with Claudio Roditi, when he had me try out a horn he bought for $75 at a street sale in Upper Manhattan. I played the horn with my mouthpiece and I said, "Claudio, it sounds like a $75 horn". Claudio then gave me a mouthpiece hand crafted for that horn Jerome Callet and the horn just sang. At the end of that lesson, Claudio took me to Jerome's studio where he crafted me a perfect mouth piece for my Olds Recording. All Jerome did was go back and forth on his lathe at grinding on the backbore.