Taking it to another dimension. Fourth valve. My flugelhorns must have 4 valves as engaging the alternative fingerings with the fourth valve depressed, keeps those flugelhorns in a true tone. And while my Kanstul has a first valve tuning trigger, I never use it as it's fourth valve when engaged, covers the task at hand. My Getzen flugel, has no trigger, and I like it that way.
@flugelgirl said in Its Been an Age Long Requirement But How Many Can Do It?:
...To think I missed all this drama while working on some modal scale patterns is kind of funny, though!
I do prefer modal over mood-al ANY TIME. Albeit that I must admit, with the Covid-19 crisis and the fact that about a third of my patients have mood disorders, business has been very good for me! Hang in there Flugelgirl and stay safe and healthy, but from my reading of things, your part of the country has things under better control.
Nice work aTrumpetdude.
I too played a performance I was hired to perform through our local musician's union 101-473 of the American Federation of Musicians at the Troy First Lutheran Church. Sorry I do not have a recording to post, but of interest, in the now 3 years I have been hired to play this performance, I have always tried to get "A Child is Born" by Thad Jones on the program, but to my dismay, without approval by the organist or the pastor. But this year, we had a new organist, more progressive in terms of Lutheran lore, and she took the bait and let me perform "A Child is Born" as a solo. Oh how it resonated within the high arches of the church. And while it may have broken with Lutheran tradition, the German Pastor loved it, and perhaps, just perhaps, "A Child is Born" by Thad Jones will be a new Lutheran tradition... Well at least in Troy Ohio!
My medical assistant surprised me with this remodeling of one of my exam rooms!
@rowuk said in Tough Decision to make:
I very much disagree with the idea of a mouthpiece transforming an instrument...
Perhaps a mouthpiece choice for a specific horn may not transform the horn, but the right mouthpiece-horn choice can optimize the performance of the horn.
I experienced one exception however. One day during a lesson with Claudio Roditi, he handed me a horn he said he just purchased at a street sale for $75. I played it, and handed it back and said, "Claudio, it sounds like a $75 horn." He then changed the mouthpiece for me and handed me the same horn back. It played with exceptional tone an resonance, yes, it was a horn transformed.
Claudio then gave me a lesson in backbore size, and how the correct gap choice can optimize the height of the sound wave amplitude as it exits the mouthpiece and is transmitted to the leadpipe. At the end of that lesson, we took a cab ride to Jarome Callet's studio, where he hand lathed the backbore of one of his mouthpieces, (it took him 3x to go back and forth to the lathe) until that mouthpiece made my Olds Recording sing, and play more open and better than it have ever sounded. At the time I was playing regularly at a club on Lexington Ave and needed a mic when playing with my sextet. After that day, I no longer needed or used the mic. So for my Recording, maybe not "transformed" but surely, enhanced.
@GeorgeB said in Its Been an Age Long Requirement But How Many Can Do It?:
@Bob-Pixley
...even though I play a D over high C every morning in my practice routines.
I'll take a first valve note over an open note anytime!
@bigdub said ...Non of the peons wanted to point out the obvious!
Not to get peon their shoes?
@Trumpetsplus said in Professional musicians on this board question:
@Dr-GO As a medic does it bother you that most of these guys are dead?
What bothers me is that I am that old, and but am grateful that I have out survived these individuals.
...and trumpet 
playing, whatever brand, is so great for your COPD. Actually the more resistance in horn the better the back pressure is to open up more pulmonary airways.
Damn, Kehaulani! You hit the nail square on the head. Couldn't have said it any better! NICE POST!!!
@ssmith1226 said in Put Down The Duckie:
@dr-go
I was referring to the first video (1986).
The picture is blurred, bit in that vintage, I believe he was playing a Bach.
@Trumpetsplus said in Professional musicians on this board question:
@Dr-GO As a medic
Also as a medic (physician) I take my own advice.... it seems to be working!
Interesting read, as my '53 LA Recording and '67 Fullerton Recording play the same. I love both and play on them equally.
I have maintained my routine practice schedule as never know when a gig will come up. Just got one from the union this week that I play tomorrow. Waiting for more to open now that our governor has opened up restaurants.
From a personal (non-evidence based) perspective, as a primary care physician that practices in a challenging environment with a paucity of mental health professionals I have a high volume of patients in my medical practice that I am the primary medical provider that manages their mental health. I would even venture to say, that about a third of my practice involves managing mental health diagnoses. So of my entire panel of patients I would say I manage the mental health in about 300 patients. Of all those patients, I know of only one musician that I manage with the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. So from my perspective, musicians are in a clear minority of the patients that I manage for mental heath diagnoses.
@Dr-GO said in Professional musicians on this board question:
@Trumpetsplus said in Professional musicians on this board question:
@Dr-GO As a medic
...I take my own advice.... it seems to be working!
Albeit there is the saying: A physician that treats himself has a fool for a patient.
Guilty as charged.... But again, I am a well aged OLD fool!
@Dale-Proctor said in Same high quality as Recording models:
Yep, like I said, you can find a few pros in the past playing jazz on an Ambassador and they work pretty well in that genre. I played lead in a big band for a while on an L.A. Ambassador, and it was ok, but it sure wasn’t suited for “legit” music.
Dale, I agree with you entirely. I have never played my Ambassador for "legit" music as it just cannot live up to the quality of sound you get from more seasoned horns. I just love that the Ambassador when high quality musicians play it can show off it's jazz sound potential.
Had no problem playing the church performance as the version of the Handel I played the month before shut down when very well. I believe my practice routine has my performance requirements well under control. This is reassuring as I never know when a gig will be coming my way at any time as the union is always surprising me.
@Tobylou8 said in Kanstul -- Any News?:
Tubas are gone for sure.
Tubas or not Tubas, That is the question!
In Dayton Ohio it's Hauer Music:
The founding owner was well know to bringing nationally known trumpet players (Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Allen Vizzutti, Doc Severinsen) into concert halls and even his own original mammoth store. We did the Dayton Trumpet Hang at Hauer's downtown location a couple a years hosted by Allen Vizzutti. And the trumpet tech there, Gary Dafler is second to none. Wynton has brought his horns in an his trips through Dayton to have Gary work on them. This is my location whenever I get the urge to go an a mouthpiece safari.
