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I discovered Suolo a few years ago. Just love their bucket mute. So seductive!

By the way Mike, here is what is in the bag behind the mute bag:

Both of which are the bags of the healing Arts!

Seriously:

This is a marking used for string instruments, which can play notes all on the same bowstroke but separated. Piano music may notate this with the intention to imitate strings that is to join the notes but not completely. This is termed portato and is described as an effect midway between legato (smoothly joined) and staccato (completely separated).

@Vulgano-Brother said in A little humour:

My teachers hated me.

I was home schooled.

...AND even then, still spent most of the time in the principal's office!

But then there is this version (the sign off for WNOP in Cincinnati when I was a kid), I think the most beautiful version of the Star Spangled Banner EVER. Lou Rawls. LOVE THAT PIC TRUMPET PART:

@Tobylou8 said in Mouthpiece recommendations for young beginners:

...I favor the "proportional route" and matching the rim diameter to the lips as much a possible. Smaller lips should get a smaller rim.

My solution was to kiss a lot, and I mean a lot of girls during my school years to help build more functional muscle. My rim diameter got bigger to match their cup sizes, most of them C cups... but I do remember one with a D cup! Yes!

My most gratifying performance was after I was asked by my trumpet idol, Till Bronner, to join him on stage to trade 8's on an improv he was doing, and after we finished, his announcing to audience while pointing to me: "What an amazing F**king set of chops!"

I rectum the sound flows freely, and the finish I am sure is flushed.
Then to clean it with paper on a role, and then finish it off with a bristle brush.

When playing on any head, those emissions lengthen and grow,
As the ear hears wafting, swirling, as it circles into the void below.

On TM I was gmonady, on here I'm Dr GO, but when it comes to commenting on Ducolax, either way I'm in the know.

@Tobylou8 said in Do you see what I see??:
...I see 2 trumpets with tuners on them.
BINGO!!!! If these two cats use them.... just sayin'. Thanks for responding. I had forgotten about this awesome video!!

And I am not so sure this is a good thing... Perhaps just perhaps in a recording studio, but not in real time performance.

Why? It is a section leaders responsibility to be in tune with the ensemble, not necessarily the perfect pitch. I have played in many an ensemble when the leader (bassist) insists on tuning to them. Tonight, I play in a big band rehearsal at the University of Dayton's piano is a quarter tone flat where I have to put the tuning slide out about an eighth of an inch from the perfect pitch. I have a tuning app on my phone, but I tune to the piano, not the app, and I expect my entire section to tune with me (which they do).

Kenny G has made a new album featuring his own adaptations of Thelonious Monk compositions.

The album is titled from it's first track:
‘Straight No Changes’

I am a bit partial to this one that Celebrates Louis Armstrong:

Here is John McNeil's discussion of the V cup from his technical jazz trumpet book: "the art of Jazz trumpet":

@tmd said in A Trumpet Cover I Did. Would love some tips/advice!:

How do people keep time when making videos like this? Do they use a click track?

Mike

My guess is a single chamber cardiac pacer for standard rhythms and a duel chamber biventricular for resynchronization.

Here is an arrangement I wrote and performed to "Jesus is All the World to Me" recorded with the band I started in the early 2000's (Second Coming):

https://soundcloud.com/user-296675506/07-track-7

Tell me if you heard this one:
A drummer walked past the bar...

@shepherds_crook said in AR Resonance Mouthpieces:

Hi TBers,

...But as I get older and my teeth have shifted together a bit,..

Nah, It's not age but chattering the teeth from living through all those cold Cincinnati Winters!

@administrator said in Do You Prefer Classical, Jazz, Rock or Other?:

Classical. Moves me.

For me, it's MiraLAX. But classical music is nice to listen to during those moments.

Let me introduce the TB community to Christophe LeLoil. He was a TM member and very interactive on that site. He is and amazingly talented French jazz trumpet player that has a new album out. Just want to make sure all hear at TB is provided the opportunity to hear his work and follow a sample to his new link:

http://music.apple.com/fr/album/les-quatre-vents/1480562105

Here is the Christophe's actual text announcing his project: So glad to announce the release of 'Les quatre vents' a quartet setup of original compositions. This was recorded last winter at famous la Buissonne studio, which is currently used for most of the ECM productions...just to say about its sound. Published by LaborieJAzz Label, and available on every platforms.

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

The WORSE case of rectal prolapse I've ever seen! Hell's bells, the damn thing looks like it has fibrosis as hard a brass.

Here are some better images comparing the front and back ends of the Jet-tone Studio B and Harrelson copy:

Backbore end

Cup End