@administrator said in Buy your horns here, not there!:
@Trumpetsplus said in Buy your horns here, not there!:
People buy Jaeger trumpets from me.
And I have heard many good things.
So why isn't Trumpetsplus a trusted seller? I trust him. And he sells his own horns. QED.
@Vulgano-Brother said in 2019 Jazz Festivals:
Ah, those (in)famous Kanstul valves. Bet your Getzen four-valve doesn't need oiling in the middle of a gig!
Damn I just hate it when you are right!
The Getzen is king when it comes to valve action. Actually I oiled the Kanstul prior to starting the gig, as this picture was taken during our set up. As it was a very humid day, and yes, those Kanstul valves are temperamental, especially with humidity, so I wasn't going to take a chance, and oiled them as a preventative action. It worked as those valves glided flawlessly. Such is the virtue of UltraPure!
@Tobylou8 said in Increase high range by 4 notes in 6 weeks?:
@Vulgano-Brother said
The answer, once again, is long-tones!
AND MY REPLY:
Some pics from the Dayton Music Festival:
Soloing on the Flugel:
The whole band in action:
And none of this would have been possible without Ultra Pure!
@BigDub said in 2019 Jazz Festivals:
@Dr-GO said in 2019 Jazz Festivals:
A little too much coffee, Doc?
Haha, just kidding. SMOKIN'!!
The weather was not my friend. My music was blowing all around and I could not get my clips to work at such short notice (when the sax player told me I was playing the lines). So I just "blew it off" and went without the music. Then the wind took my fingers and the rest is history.
The day after. Here is a post of one of the songs the quintet played backing up the vocalist Brenda Flowers. I decided to bring out my Harrelson on this day as we had a two set with rather challenging ranges to play. This song was to be played by the sax player but at the last minute he punted the song over to me due to the break neck tempo. So here I am, unrehearsed, as it was "Just One of Those Things":
Playing relaxed (softly) as you go up is key. See the following:
@Kehaulani said in Increase high range by 4 notes in 6 weeks?:
I'm not going to say it won't work for someone else, but if I free buzzed an hour a day, my chops would be inflexible, even somewhat hardened, and it would definitely work to my detriment.
Agreed. Not free buzzing with absolutely no resistance, but playing (not buzzing) into a towel. This is a totally different process. Try it. Experience the feeling on your lips when you finish. It feels different, You can feel the tone.
For sure you won't get if if you don't try. I am not going to say it is impossible, but it is improbable. Again, let me reflect that you need muscle tone to do this. It takes 6 weeks to add to tone, and that is if you do it right.
Let me ask this question, would you expect a weight lifter that can press 200 lbs to lift (without a spotter) 300 lbs in 6 weeks? That is quite a demand. And to do this without straining or pulling muscle is the other risk that must be balanced. If the 6 week goal was to get to 225 lb, then a much higher chance of achieving this would be seen.
So can you get a solid D range to an G in 6 weeks? That is an audacious goal. I do believe the E can be achieved, and perhaps the F, but another whole step to G is quite a task to achieve in 6 weeks, based on the training of muscle to support such a demand in such a short time.
To say it is impossible, I cannot go there. Here is what I suggest doing. Try to find the slurring studies of Cat Anderson and start working on these. Also, in between practice, take your mouthpiece and play it into a hand towel. Do this a half hour, twice a day. For the majority of the time (75%), take you mouthpiece towel range to that C. Then the additional time, start working the mouthpiece towel to above the C.
The reason for doing this is to train your lips to perform at a resistance much greater than you will feel when you do this with the horn. In so doing you will not only develop strength, but also the feeling of not having to push so hared once you remove that resistance (going back to the horn). This also trains you to RELAX once you are back to your horn with more muscle strength. RELAXING is just as important to prevent you from intuitively straining to put additional force you really don't need, and will only serve to close off your airflow.
So good luck and do keep us updated.
Kehaulani - Thanks so much. These look great!
Well, I guess he could play an entire song without taking a breath. And whistle the whole time.
Not to forget to mention he will always have a drum behind him.
Before surgery, I offer my patients to either use gas or a boat paddle to knock them out.
It's and ether/oar situation!
@bobmiller1969 said in Waxing inside of MP:
@adc Ear wax? We're they used Q-tips?
As a physician, I shall add our medical recommendation: Never, never use Q-tips to clean out ear wax. The physics of this only pushes the wax more into the ear drum. I know I am shooting myself in the foot, as people using Q-tips to clear wax brings many patients into my office, but don't put anything smaller then your elbow into your ear.
Q-tips for the mouthpiece that has too open ends, well that is a safe thing to try. I think adc could next recommend a wax that he prefers (please be it not ear wax!)
I use to remember members on TM talking about waxing horns with car wax. But I will yield to the experience of adc.
@Brian-Moon said in Spread the Word and Help Lower my Blood Pressure:
“It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
Actually, it was a finger movement miss-key and I fixed it (but thanks for the head's up). So if you want the gig as my editor on the TB site, it's yours as I believe my prior TM editor is no longer up for the challenge!
Very strange indeed as to the busyness. I started last week out with no gigs, ended with 4. This week I am subbing for a big band at a nursing home, tomorrow evening, playing a club this evening, and performing at the Dayton Jazz Festival on Sunday. The Sunday gig was the only one scheduled months in advance.
I have only one currently scheduled for July to date, but that is how June started with only one, and so far has 11 in it!
What is even more remarkable from the June gigs is that a well known drummer from Cincinnati (recorded albums with George Benson and a faculty at the UC College Conservator) that I have NEVER had the pleasure to play with in my 40+ years as an area jazz musician, suddenly had me playing 3 of those gigs with that drummer just this month. Getting in well with well know people in these situations, gets your name out there and opens even more opportunities that fills in those vacancies.
@Kehaulani said in Monetization of/for TrumpetBoards:
What are we tuned in to so far that would attract such an advertiser?
I don't know about others here on TB, but when I look at adds streaming, they came from searches I used on other sites to shop for house wear, cars, realtors, and dating sites. How the dating sites showed up, I am not sure, but none of the ads are for trumpet or even music related items.
@Kehaulani said in Spread the Word and Help Lower my Blood Pressure:
There are 20 cars in the parking lot.
...but there's a flat bed truck hauling the 20 cars from the parking lot.
Hopefully, that makes it all right again?
@Vulgano-Brother said in How many measures on a tank of air?:
The second trumpet part in the Canadian Brass arrangement of Bach's "Little Fugue in C Minor" has an eleven bar phrase of sixteenths at one point. I didn't write just "BB" on my part, but rather "BFB."
Or you could circular breathe. Why torture yourself? Live and breathe longer. Stay healthy!
@J-Jericho said in Remember when butchers wore a blue and white striped apron?:
...Perhaps Dr. GO would care to comment, considering the finish on his Ambassador.
Yes, I did have my Ambassador beaded and I will give you a before and after comparison of the sound. But I must first give a description as to the condition before and after beading of this horn as well, as the sound was definitely positively influenced after this modification.
My Ambassador was given as a "hand me down" to my brother in 1973 when I went off to college and he was 4 years behind me, beginning high school with marching band ahead. My brother was not kind to that horn, and when I got it back from him many decades latter around 2005, it was a mess. The bell was severely bent (and angled to the right), several tuning slides were dented in, but it was still playable but sounded "thin".
I decided to give Tom Green this horn as a challenge, mostly for repair, and also to attach a third valve ring. When he got the horn, he asked me about the finish and I saw his website and loved his gold beading work, so I requested the beaded finish. When I got the horn back, it was first of all stunningly beautiful, but its sound... its sound... It was a rebirth. Rich, dark and full. Now was it the beading? Was it the repair of the bell (bell taper is so important to a horn;s sound), or was it a new bracing attachment of the third valve ring? Not sure, but whatever it was that Tom did to this horn resulted in nothing less then a magical sound. So I am sold on gold beading, and Tom Green's repairs!
@Kehaulani said in Thyroid stuff:
Yaaay for the American pharmaceutical and medical system!
Hey, we have some control. You know how to make a hormone? Don't pay her!
