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Christmas Spirits!

This song kind of defines what jazz is. Share it!

Then there is the music of Claudio Roditi who was my most influential trumpet teacher that I had the pleasure of training under for 18 months while I lived in NYC and during the time he was an understudy of Dizzy Gillespie. "Prague in March" is not one of Claudio's more remembered songs as it is not quit in the spirit of his Brazilian style, but man this is my favorite recording of my favorite teacher:

The Kanstul 1526:

AND the way it sounds:
https://soundcloud.com/user-296675506/daisy

An interesting article published in the medical journal, Chest, had a couple of articles that described the respiratory symptoms noted in the Thread title and did an investigation that found fungi and atypical micobacteria growing in the brass tubing was responsible for patient's symptoms AND pulmonary findings on CT scan. After adding a periodic 91% isopropyl rinse cycle to a scheduled cleaning routine of the instrument, ALL symptoms resolved and ALL chest findings reverted to normal. This was a game changer for me, and even though I did not have the signs or symptoms, every three months when I clean my horns, I use a 91% isopropyl alcohol an all tubes AND valve casings before reassembling the horns. Here a summary of the original article:

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(10)60500-4/fulltext#intraref20

I have had amazing experiences with the Harrelson 5MM system. They are a bit pricey, but if you wait for a sale you can get a couple hundred dollars off the price. I have now two such modular mouth pieces (the first one came "for free" with the price of my trumpet purchase).

Let me try to put into my own words the creativity behind this mouthpiece. First and foremost, it is modular and comes in several pieces. There is a variety of rims. These screw onto a variety of cups. The rim and cup assemblies screw onto the front end of a body. Within the body you then insert a shaft connecting the cup to an additional backbore that that screws into the back end of the body at which point the entire assembly is then ready to insert onto the leadpipe. Finally there is a nut at the distal backbore end that locks the mouthpiece into a snug fit with the horn.

The first one I had ordered, I requested a Jettone studio B "vintage" copy. The Harrelson had the EXACT rim, cup combinations that PERFECTLY matched my original 1970's vintage Jettone Studio B. Then they provided a selection of shafts and backbores until I found the combination the best sounded with my Harrelson Summit. Just amazing, as the feel is EXACTLY like the original Jettone AND with using a wider shaft, I no longer bottom out my airflow after hours of playing on such a small cupped mouthpiece as I would do after hours of lead playing on the original Jettone. Just amazing!

For my second mouthpiece I asked Jason to copy my Kanstul G2 (the Miles Davis Heim copy). He actually scanned my original Kanstul G2 in case the modular components could not exactly duplicate the flat rim and deep V cup design of this mouthpiece. No need to do this as the modular components he used gave me the feel and performance characteristics of the original Kanstul G2.

This is just an amazing system where any player can customize a classic mouthpiece's feel and then enhance the performance by working with the modular back end components to actually optimize the air column resistance and vibration amplitude to best optimize to the leadpipe characteristics of any horn. So it is a bit pricey, but for the serious player, it is a game changer.

And oh yes, if you do purchase this system, do ask for the tool set that accompanies the pieces, as they really do make the changes to adjusting the components a lot easier. Here is a link to the Harrelson 5MM Mouthpiece site:

https://www.whyharrelson.com/store/p30/5MM_Mouthpiece_(19pc_%26_20pc_Kits).html

Me playing my Harrelson with the Kanstul 2G 5MM modular adaption:

@GeorgeB said in Harrelson Trumpets:

@Dr-GO
How do you like your Harrelson, Doc ?

It's a gift from Heaven. It has so many textures and so easy to "turn" the horn on between them. I have a very large bell in between that of a traditional trumpet bell and flugelhorn bell (#7). It can sound so mellow during ballads, and with a harmon mute, it plays with the sound from my Martin Committee. Yet, when I put my 5mm Jettone copy in, it peals paint as a lead horn. It plays with essentially no resistance, makes the upper range as relaxed as in the staff (which makes the upper range sound relaxed - when I want it to). Just an amazing instrument.

THEN there is my current favorite contemporary musician that I must admit has most recently augmented my prior musical voice into a bit softer direction, Till Bronner:

Also had the pleasure of playing on stage with till at the ITG Convention in Columbus in 2015 and have a picture of the two of us together after the session:

Post would not be complete without the Rose brass of an Olds Recording. I shall oblige:

HERE IS THE ABOVE HORN playing on: Jacktime

Here is the C-Instrument Part to Jacktime:

This is a rose brass horn that can play with bright spirits when so energized!

So glad you made it well through the surgery. So you have a new lease on life and will be playing again better than ever with a new resilience.

I know you can make it back by February if you start in the next couple weeks starting at a half hour a day for the first week back then adding 10 minutes every several days to your practice time letting your progress determine how fast you can advance to your normal routine. Once you get there then focus on range. You can do this!

If anyone wants to get to some of the classic TM Posts for there archives of amazing advice, use this link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190119162733/http://www.trumpetmaster.com/

Trumpet Mouthpiece Blues

Did you lead off with "Fever"?