For several TM Martin Committee Club members, they found the Owner's Manual I received with my 1946 Martin Committee helpful, especially for maintaining piston (valve) performance. So I thought I would post it on TrumpetBoards as it may be of interest to people reading this thread.
Freedom abounds with the Martin Committee. No ring needed. With its greasy ability for slotting, the third ring is obsolete. Check out the many pictures of Miles and Botti. You will note an absence of the third slide ring.
And finally, this is no joke, there was a residency in one of the hospitals in New York City, where working conditions were so poor for the surgical residents, that they were looking for a union to represent them so they could legally go on strike against the hospital. One union came forward to represent the surgeons...
you all ready for this... again... no joke
The Meat Cutters Union!
@Newell-Post said in Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet:
@Dr-GO Dude. Sorry, but that comment is not OK, even if it was lighthearted. There have been times in my life when I made that kind of money and paid those kinds of taxes. (And I'm not an MD.)
First let me say to all that I did not mean to offend anyone. This has been a painful few years for me as my employer tried to fire me after I reported a wrongful death to an accrediting body that my employer tried to cover up. A judgment was made in my favor which created my tax burden for this year. Is the winning worth it? Being bullied by my employer for the many years this case was in the courts was a pain I would never wish on anyone. But exposing and assisting that one patient that was irreversibly harmed was well worth the effort. Fortunately for the years that follow, my tax burden will fall back to the realm of the mortal world. Again, so sorry for creating any anger for my post.
@Vulgano-Brother said in My Myopericarditis:
My question is as follows: My apartment living forces me to use a practice mute, and I'm using the Yamaha Silent Brass on my big horns and a Denis Wick on my piccolo, so I'm wondering, will the back pressure (especially with the Wick) be a factor preventing me from practicing at this time?
Your experiences are most welcome!
The back pressure is actually therapeutic. It is known in the medical world as PEEP (Positive End Expiratory Pressure). It will help remove the inflammatory fluid more than any medicine can with the back pressure pushing fluid from the air sacks into the interstitial space which will move it back into circulation.
The ejection fraction of the heart is excellent, likely more then mine.
Did your physician put you on colchicine? That will help heal the myocardial inflammation from the viral attack.
Man. You had this bad. I believe being a trumpet player may have saved the day for you. If all goes well in 3-6 months you should be back on room air.
Kanstul 1525/1526 I just love but again I may be a bit biased as from the Kanstul site:
What was really an honor in being identified as a Kanstul feartured artist is I am included with Claudio Roditi who was my trumpet teacher in my years I played in New York City. And Claudio was an Adams featured artist, but then discovered Kanstul.
I have played both and would have to say, Adams would be my second choice. I still feel the copper alloy 1525 and 1526 takes the edge over the Adams.
I told my psychiatrist that I had been hearing voices. He told me that I don't have a psychiatrist.
@_mark_ said in My low notes sound like a gibbering Dalek:
...This physical aspect was the reason I loved loudly amplified guitar--it vibrated the whole body, not just the eardrums.
I get this whole body feeling on the trumpet when playing all the right notes!
@fels Antibiotics are the staple in treating Acute exacerbations of Bronchiectasis. Pulmonary function test where FEV1, FVC, TLC and DLCO may also be helpful in detailing cofounding measures of level of obstructive or restrictive disease. These values may best predict and follow response to prolonged medications (such as steroids). With that said, the HRCT scan is very helpful in determining the diagnosis and disease course as well. Depending on the underlying cause there may be more specific treatments in managing, so the remaining advice I give is more for general therapy or idiopathic causes of bronchiectasis.
Pulmonary Rehab Therapy is very beneficial for ongoing management and improved outcomes in bronchiectasis, so hopefully, your physician has scheduled you for such a program.
Flutter valve therapy on a daily basis is additionally helpful. Actually, playing the trumpet (especially if you can get in some time at circular breathing) can enhance this. They are simple devices and fairly inexpensive (the flutter valves not necessarily the trumpet).
Daily inhalation of saline by a nebulizer has been found to enhance pulmonary function in bronchiectasis.
Finally, chronic therapy using the antibiotic azithromycin at 500 mg on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays are helpful in systematic reviews. This works more as thinning secretions (called a biofilm) as opposed to the traditional of high dose, daily short term antibiotic courses. So in this way, azithromycin acts more as an anti-inflammatory agent than as an antibiotic.
Run these ideas by with your pulmonary physician and see if he would consider this. Let him know you received this advice from a physician that ran an Adult Cystic Fibrosis clinic for 27 years, and was on the accreditation committee for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Dr. GO
PS: Here is a link to an article that may be of help to you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478409/
@barliman2001 said in A little humour:
A guy to his friends: "My mother-in-law has now reached her ideal weight." -
"Really? And what is it?" -
"Seven pounds including the urn."
Question to an art loving economist: What's a Grecian urn?
Answer: About $1.20 an hour
@georgeb said in >OLDS Recording...:
Me. too. I favor my older horns above the newer ones. I especially love the 1942 Buescher and the 1952 Selmer Paris.
And then again, there is nothing better than an older horn player... but on this account, I am biased!
My first: The Olds Ambassador. Got me from 5th grade through Jr. High. Don't have a before, but here is the after... after Tom Green took the dents out of the bell, bends out of the leadpipe, red rot leading into the valve casings, then gold beaded it to blend it all together... and it sounds very close to my Committee:
@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.
Dale's horns are among the most beautiful I have ever seen!
@barliman2001 said in A little humour:
@J-Jericho said in A little humour:
Whatever happened to Peter Cetera's brother Et?
He married and took the surname of his wife, Aliis.
But couldn't perform in marital bliss so thought if he changed his fist name to Cee, all would be corrected.
@rowuk said in Opinions of General Quality of Martin Trumpets:
I have played several - including some very, very good ones, but none of them screamed "buy me" and I do not regret never having owned one. ...this says more about me than about very good Martin instruments.
I agree. They are not easy instruments to play. They have a greasy slotting quality (at least the 5 I have played, including the one I own). But when I am playing in a small group ensemble, greasy is what I want as I like to bend and glide during many improve solos and this instrument gives amazing flexibility in doing so.
Playing greasy... this says more about me than about the very good Martin instruments as well.
Here is a Facebook post from this past Thursday who caught me playing my Martin on a gig. It pretty much captures my above commentary.
https://www.facebook.com/1368582191/videos/pcb.10227211330813609/231510809094251
I paint you humble. Well played BidDub, Well played!
