Posts made by Dr GO

Nothing, I mean nothing sounds better than the 1970 vintage Harmons. What made them so different?

@moshe said in glad there's no fighting here:

Your title is "global moderator"?

Even the President of the United States
is not responsible for the entire globe.

Or is "globe" a euphemism for testicles
and you just tell men to turn their heads and cough?

Morris / moshe

Hey, I just did three of those exams today! Pays good money. Perhaps I can send the proceeds to our administrator!

Once had a patient that asked me when I was doing the exam how much it was going to cost while I was grabbing his jewels. I told him $50. Then there was a long pause as I held them in my hands, and then I stated... and $100 do get them back!

@Bob-Pixley said in Can Playing with Musicians Out of Tune Give You a Headache?:

I've never had a headache from playing with out of tune "musicians", but it is a pain in the butt.

In these situations, I just learned to turn the other cheek!

@GeorgeB said in Can Playing with Musicians Out of Tune Give You a Headache?:
The brass section in our band is the back row and the drums are always situated directly behind me... I feel the rhythm from the tips of my toes to the top of my head.

Now that has got to be the longest path of radiating tremor I have ever heard in my clinical career.

@neal085 said in TM Refugee - Late to the Party.:
Is double high C the one below the staff?

I will disagree with tmd in the answer to this one.
No, it is One Part Double High-C; below Two Parts Gin.
Cheers!

@neal085 said in TM Refugee - Late to the Party.:
Is Kenny G still considered the best jazz artist of all time?

I agree with tmd's answer (no) but I do know Kenny G holds the Guinness Book of Records for holding the longest note, I believe for 59 minutes.

AND word on the street is Kenny G is making a tribute album to Monk calling it:
Straight, No Changes.

As for me, my request for Kenny G would be to play "Long Ago and Far Away"

OK: Discuss

@moshe said in "Star Trek Next Generation":
...and 500 years in the future there still was no cure for baldness?

Morris / moshe

Physician to patient:
"There is no shame in being bald,"

Patient back to doctor:
"Doctor, that depends on how you spell it."

@neal085 said in TM Refugee - Late to the Party.:
.... including Vulgano Brother, who is neither Vulgano, nor my brother, but we can still love him for who he is...

Um.... Have you ever met the dude? I have! You still sure about that?

@Dr-Mark said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:

What! No rubber lips or rubber bladders!
It looks like Artificial Rhonda needs to go back into her suitcase until more lenient legislation can be passed. Just damned. I was starting to feel that she was beginning to like me for who I am.

It's my guess she rubbered you the wrong way!

@Dr-Mark said in S.H.I. Spontaineous Harmonic Improvization:

The way SHI works is to get with the other horn player and agree that whenever someone comes up with a little motif or riff, they share it with the other horn player...

So a year ago, the Jazz Director at the University of Dayton (Willie Morse, an alto sax player) asked me to play a gig with him at this bar in downtown Dayton called Hanna's. He has had me sub with many of his university jazz ensembles, and they were always guaranteed to be an exceptional musical experience with all the fine music majors at UD (Go Flyers!). So of course I said sure.

When I got there 15 minutes before the gig started it was just Willie on stage. So I asked him where the rhythm section was to set up (so I wouldn't get in their way), and he replied: Well buddy, it's just you and me.

I NEVER in my professional career just played with another horn and have no chordal instrument backing me up. A wave of embarrassment and fear passed through me. But then we started, reading through tunes he called out in the Real Books. MAN DID WE COOK! So as you so stated, Dr. Mark, one of us played the lead while the other comped. Like piano or guitar line comping. Then on a wink or nod, the lead line changed and the other person comped. And while the improv soloist was performing, the comping became a bit more subtle. But what I was truly amazed with, was how full the sound was with just two solo instruments playing such a venue.

What an amazing experience this was, with Spontaneous Harmonic Improvization to the MAX. The club owner was so impressed (or cheap 'cause he only had to pay 2 musicians - you be the judge) that he booked the two of us for many more gigs.

@Kehaulani said in Do you see what I see??:

That's not what she said!

Or as the French would say: Touchy [or is that Touché?] Ahh what the hell, your choice!

@Kehaulani said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:

So, if I buy a medium-bore Getzen and a large-bore Getzen, and a medium-bore Schilke and a large-bore Schilke, will the medium-bore horns be have certain characteristics that separate them from their large-bore counterparts?

So this IS for sure: If you buy both a medium and large-bore Getzen AND Schilke, the companies of Getzen and Schilke will definitely profit!

@Dr-Mark said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:
... Just rubber lips or rubber bladder ...

Dr.Mark

This is punishable by imprisonment in many cities (except for Las Vegas of course).

@Dr-Mark said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:
...but to apply them to whether or not a person can "feel" the difference between large and medium bore trumpets might be. The ability to fill one's lungs with air vs the air needed to excite the air molecules inside a trumpet might not be comparable.

Dr.Mark

And to this I also agree. The feeling one has relates more to resistance not volume.

@Kehaulani said in Do you see what I see??:
...Ever try to transcribe a bass line an octave a complete octave LOWER?

I would NEVER stoop that low!

@Kehaulani said in glad there's no fighting here:

Oh, yeah? **** you, Moshe!

And I *** you too Kehaulani!*

*Of course **** in Hawaiian means LOVE

Moshe...

I so agree with you. I really get the feeling with the dynamics that this administrator has created that this site supports a highly functional family.

I have also observed that differences of opinion are discussed and conveyed in such absolute respect that others; reading such differences actually learn from the professionalism of the debate.

Many kudos for the Administrator. It is well appreciated!

@Dr-Mark said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:

Hi Dr-GO,
...when discussing does a large bore trumpet take more air. In my opinion, it does.
Dr.Mark

Now my last personal reflection from this last quote response.

I have been practicing medicine for over 27 years, 31 years if you count my residency training. I am known nationally as a National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation leader and have been providing care for these patients, most with with severe obstructive pulmonary disease. The Foundation so recognizes my level of expertise that they have hired me to travel around the country to certify their over 127 clinical centers in the United States. In addition, I have been teaching lung function in the pulmonary module at the Boonshoft School of Medicine for over a decade.

Now with that introduction as to my experience in recognizing lung function, let me relate my 27 yeas of experience to what patients with obstructive pulmonary disease feel due to loss of air when they begin to experience an exacerbation of their disease. They do not even complain they are short of breath until their lung function falls below 15% of their baseline. So one of my patients with a baseline 80% lung function feels short of breath when the get to 68%. However, it is also true that one of my more end stage patients that have baseline function around 20% will feel short of breath when they fall to 3% (which is 15% of their baseline) as they just have no reserve due to scarring.

If you review my calculation above, the difference in a medium bore and large bore is just 2% difference of a normal persons' tidal lung volume. There is no physiological way from my 27+ years of medical practice and experience that I can say that a 2% difference will give an individual the sensation that this loss feels to them they have more work of breathing. Even my CF patient with a 20% baseline lung function wouldn't feel it as they don't complain of shortness of breath until the drop to 17%.

So I hope people reading this thread can appreciate and understand there is just no way for a human to feel that more air is needed for just a 2% difference in air volume. No way!

@Dr-Mark said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:
My experience has been that a large bore trumpet is a little harder to play than a medium bore trumpet and the trumpet players that have tried my trumpets (large bore) did not care for them and preferred medium bore trumpets instead.

Dr.Mark

So on this point, I had never made such a correlation. Now that I have a few more years of experience under my belt, let me relate some of my own personal experience.

REFLECTION 1:
My Harrelson Summit is a much larger bore than my medium bore Martin Committee. My Committee played effortless for me (it was the horn I used when you heard me in Pittsburgh). HOWEVER my Harrelson, with a larger bore (I can fit my Committee's second valve slide into the Harrelson and add a toothpick into the gap) AND weighs like an anvil plays even more effortlessly than the Committee. The Harrelson glides in and out of high to low octave like my 427 hp Camaro SS shifts flawlessly into overdrive! So from my perspective with this response, it is the efficiency of the Harrelson, not the bore difference that causes the difference in feel.

REFLECTION 2:
My Getzen Eterna flugelhorn has a .460 bore size. My Kanstul 1526 flugelhron has a 0.421 bore size. Man does that Getzen play so open and easy compared to the Kanstul. This is why I still use the Getzen for outdoor concerts. It projects greater and is less tiring to play when I have to put more volume into the horn.

@Dr-Mark said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:

Hi Dr-GO,
The question would be, why does it take more effort? according to Bach's web site. There are a lot of variables to consider such as where the braces are placed, the metal used, taper of the mouthpipe, bell size and construction, etc.... Is it a function of resistance? It very well may be...
Dr.Mark

Dr. Mark, to all of this I do agree, and thanks so much for being so open to this discussion as I hope our instruction is helping others.

Please do look for more of my quotes of your reply so I can address distinct issues.