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Yeah, I can live with that. Just look at my post count!

I am a physician and see the "red eye" as a common presentation. The fact that you do not describe seeing "floaters" makes it less likely (but does not rule out) a retinal detachment or hemorrhage. The red eye is caused by many benign conditions, so yes it can be common. But it can also be a sign of conditions that need investigation if lingering more than a couple days.

I am concerned regarding sensation you feel with air vibration causing pain. Red eye and pain with pressures suggests glaucoma, and continued playing would not be recommended with glaucoma. This would be my most likely concern. So I would recommend scheduling a visit with an ophthalmologist to get at a minimum, ocular pressures measured, as well as a slit lamp exam.

I am also sharing a video that discusses trumpet playing with eye disease. Hope you find this information useful:

By interpretation is members here are doing so well from prior threads that we are proficiently progressing and have yet to stumble from what we have gleaned so far from this site. So to me, all looks well, and I for one do try to get anyone's goat, especially the administrator, as I do not want to be a baaaaaaaaa-d influence.

@oldpete said in Personality and Taste in Classical Music:

I have developed the quadrangle so we can give up the triangle and still enjoy the 'ding'.

Is the extra thing a better ding? What's your angle? Would it be called a perpendingal?

@Tobylou8 said in Not exactly a trumpet but.....:

Dale Proctor would know!!

That is so true, and in trumpet forums his vast knowledge earns him the special title of "Proctortologist", even if his reviews are delayed and he falls a little "behind".

I understand instead of using his E string, he squared the measure of his C string... you know E = mC(squared)

@grune said in Favorite Music:

@dr-go
If you are American, undoubtedly you have not been educated in the true goals of Marx's theory.. You may be surprised to learn Marx did not advocate the destruction of capital nor of capitalism...

Not at all, once again, I will hold up my political science education over yours any day. Marx's theory was truly ahead of it's time, and as you said and it is true is was the bastardizaiton of his theory by the politburo that took the theory to the wrong place. So once again, don't you dare come after me insulting my education. You assume too much, and in so doing you are reflecting you own ignorance,

By the way, Groucho was my favorite Marx brother anyway!

@tjcombo said in The hammered bell:

It would be very difficult to say if the hammering had any effect on how the horn played.

I believe that comment nailed it!

@tmd said in Sell my hornn?:

This happens when you are having horny thoughs.

This is the version I played. I played the melody line on the 1st verse; the vocal descant line on the second verse; sat out (organ solo) the third verse; and the descant trumpet line the forth verse:

I have the Super Deluxe precursor: The Getzen Power Bore and truly enjoy playing that horn. It was my lead horn until I purchased the Harrelson. It slots like a laser and is the most accurate slotting horn I own.

What about working around wood? I put this wall of back-splash in with the help of my wife again with marble tile I got from Lowe's. Worked from 5 pm to 5 am the next morning to complete the project on a cold (8 degree F day) in February. Had to run a heater in the garage to keep the water from freezing in the stone cutter. Did the entire profect (facing wall not pictured) for $380.00!

I have noticed this topic has been dormant for the past Easter, as I imagine Covid restrictions has been so critical in impacting large gatherings. I just finished a day of playing Easter Services at an area Lutheran Church, that had a full service, all masking, using alternating pews with staggered seating in family units. It worked well.

For this service, I was fortunate to get Descant Trumpet parts for all Hymns and had traditional organ trumpet parts for the opening Prelude, Te Duem, and the processional, The Trumpet Shall Sound.

The Traditional Selections Included:
Bist Du Bei Mir
Now All the Vaults
Crist the Lord Is Risen Today
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

@GeorgeB said in For Martin lovers:

So, Doc, you were a new-born innocent babe in 1955...

Newborn... yes... innocent? I'll let members here be the judge of that...

AFTER ALL I have the distinction of being the only Trumpetboard member to have been banned from the site!

@BigDub said in Woodworking?:

@Dr-GO said in Woodworking?:

Those slat widths better be under 2 and 3/8 inches or I report you to Children's Protective Services!

No measuring devices were used for the making of this cradle. It was organic, zen, visually driven creation. It all comes together by feel.

Just put the call in. Let me know these slat widths when you get out:

Ahhh... from what you posted, he has definitely fulfilled 10.000 hours... So the 10,000 hour rule does apply. (1,500 hours in dog years)

While not related to vocal "warm ups" there is another important concept to using vocal cues for phrasing passages on the trumpet. Another teacher, not necessarily formally but though default, actually his fault for choosing me for his quintet, Eddie Brookshire (a bassist) taught me the importance of reading the words written UNDER THE NOTES when they are present that takes priority over the notes that may be written above the words. Here is Eddie's wisdom behind this concept:

Eddie sees the notes written as the song writer's way of "graphing" the phrasing of the lyrical component to a song. Songs are there to provide a message, and there is no stronger way to provide that message from the intent of the song writer then reproducing the word phrasing. But sometimes as Eddie describes, the graphical depiction of that quarter note, eighth note, dotted eighth note to sixteenth note just cannot accurately "graph" the spoken, written intent of the phrase. To get around this, just read the words, not the notes, and your phrasing as to the intent of the song writer will be spot on.

I just witnessed two cheese trucks that crashed head on.
Da Brie was everywhere!

@A Former User said in Elmer Churampi:
...However, for some people, practicing the horn is a drug and their dragon is figuring out how some piece or piece of a song goes.

After 10,000 hours of practicing, I am dragon!

Eugene Blee's Long Tone Warm Ups: