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@administrator said in Could you have a metal allergy?:

I would reach out to Dr. Bergman with any questions you might have. He is a personal friend of mine, a fine trumpeter and our next ITG President. I trust his word.

I am Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, was the President of the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Association, have a National Teaching Award named after me (The Gary Onady Award) published Evidence-based Systematic Reviews on allergy reactions AND am a member of the American Federation of Musicians (very proud of that one). So what am I, chopped liver?

I see and have personally cared for and treated nickel allergies (more related to jewelry) for over 30 years in my medical practice. The case you posted is a clear presentation of long duration, repeat exposure to nickel which is commonly seen in a medical practice. So any individual can additionally reach out to me through this thread, as a member of TrumpetBoards. But I ask you to judge for yourselves if you feel my above discussions are on point.

Please do read our disclaimer. I do ask that you first reach out personally to your own physician and then have that physician contact me if they have additional questions. I will provide the background and medical recommendations that physicians' will need. I serve as a consultant to United Healthcare and the American College of Physicians to produce such educational materials for physicians and patients.

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How can you tell the difference between a frog and a horny toad?

A frog says: "Rib-bit; Rib-it"

AND

A horny toad says: "Rub-it; Rub-it"

@Tobylou8 said in Is Air Needed To Play The Trumpet:

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

Air is needed to play trumpet - as I just found out when a spitball got stuck.

Next time visualize hitting the conductor on the nose and use a huge Phoooowwwwwww!!!

At least it would be a highly efficient hit!

@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.

I received an email question from a musician that I would like to share with this group. Here is the context and the question:

"[A] guitar player was grossly out of tune. The way I was positioned on the stage allowed one of my ears to be pointed toward a monitor and the other ear pointed toward the audience... The sensation in the ear that was pointed toward the monitor "felt different" than the ear that was pointing toward the audience. This makes me wonder if there is more of a biological/acoustical component to the headaches people get from listening to out of tune performances and its not just tension headaches. Could it be that the cilia react in a way that displeasing when exposed to frequencies that are dissonant? Is it the way the frequencies hit the eardrum?"

I have never experience such a complaint in my medical practice so I did a PubMed search and found no articles specific to musical intonation and headaches; however, I am sure band conductors can be driven to headaches though when members play out of tune during a performance.

With that said, I actually did find an article that did note that hearing differences related to tinnitus or sensorineural hearing impairment (difference between hearing quality of ears) is linked to headaches with a 12.2% increase in headaches in patients with this disorder compared to 5.5% in patients with headache without this disorder. I am providing the link below to that abstract. So it just may be possible that some individuals may be prone to headaches by a neurological trigger stimulated by listening to out of tune performers within an ensemble.

My request to readers of this thread is to please do let me know if any of you have experienced this effect.

Here is the link:
https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezproxy.libraries.wright.edu/pubmed/30003226

Two Main Rules:

1. Sight Read Often

2. Sing it before you play it, and if you're Rapier, sing it to yourself and all will be fine.

@tjcombo said in no prayer requests allowed:

@moshe I'm afraid I can't assist with prayers Moshe, but can wish you the best of luck. I hear that plenty of study brings luck and can even trump prayers in matters like these.
de vk3azr

Interesting tj how you use trump and prayes in the same sentence says the good doctor with tongue in cheek. Nudge, nudge... A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat.

@ROWUK your cautionary comment is well understood. My work out is prioritized for increasing chest volume (capacity) rather than strength as I agree that brut force is our enemy.

As for the abs exercise, that's more for toning my middle age spread.

@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.

In addition, I refer you to this article that gives a very good differential diagnosis of lip dysfunctions in which Dystonia, thankfully is not as prevalent as other treatable etiologies.

This Table give you a comparison of the various conditions and their symptoms to the differential cause of embouchure dysfunction:

Finally, here is the proportion of all causes of non-ED and ED (with the percentage of ED among instrument types):

HOPE THE ABOVE ARTICLES HAVE BEEN HELPFUL

@vulgano-brother said in If you are 13...THIS is your standard!:

That's it. I'm giving up trombone.

Ahhh..... He plays trumpet too!

@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:

@moshe
Yeah Wayne's work has a bit of magic to it.

AND that magic is for sale. You can have a little bit of BigDubs magic brighten up your house!. I have 6 rooms in my house (and one at my Mother in law's house - as a gift) of BigDubs brightening pieces of magical art!

Isn't were to breathe a part of musical expression? If the breath marks are not inserted (and there are no inferred vocal lines in the chart) isn't it fair game to breathe as the artist performing would desire? We too are artists and can paint with or breaths and phrasing.

To me, a jazz musician, breathing and phrasing is how we express our voice. Now when it comes to a jazz, contemporary, pop, gospel piece, the words behind the notes should dictate the breathing and phrasing. But the artist still has their prerogative to rephrase the sentence toward a fresh presentation.

Interesting perspective that "my horn" is really someone else's horn that the listener tends to admire. That was what roped me into the Getzen 4-valve Etena. Was a real fan of Rick Braun, and at the time I was in the market for a flugelhorn, that is the horn I chose and he is the reason why. However, I sound like me on it, not like Rick Braun, and I am OK with that.

Great news! Thanks for the update.

I use to teach trumpet lessons (Buddy Rodgers Music, North College Hills) when I was a starving college student trying to make extra cash as a musician. That and my band paid my way through college. And I still perform today, 50 years later as a musician (and a card carrying AFM member to boot) but no longer teach trumpet. I now teach however, in my other chosen profession, health care. Wish I had the wisdom way back then, 50 years ago, that I have now as I would have been much more accomplished as a trumpet teacher.

Fast forward to today. I address my patients by putting them into the prospective that you (the patient) are my boss, and I am only your spiritual advisor. I then let them know it is my role in our relationship to provide them with the relevant clinical expertise centering around their needs, and then provide them several options. They choose the option they want (or sometimes even create an option I did not even bring forward to them). I will go with whatever direction they provide (as long as it does not harm them - "first do no harm"), but then follow them up shortly to take inventory as to where they are and if their goals are being achieved. If so, continue in the same direction, if not, try one of the other methods that I provided based on well documented evidence.

Key is, you got to get their trust to move forward and if you hear and work with each other, a successful outcome will be achieved.

@Dr-Mark said in Artist on BOARD:

BigDub,
You're a blessed man. Not everyone can do this. Some art is so realistic that it looks like a photograph. You take splotches of paint and create something even better.

You too are blessed Dr. Mark. I have heard you play and you take splotches of sound and turn them into beautiful music!

Instead of saying Teeee or Taaaa, say Ooooooo (as in Dr. GOoooooo). That will get an easier approach to getting lower notes.

Who Dey having these horns are lucky ones.