@Kehaulani said in Jazz Jams in Dayton:
@Dr-GO
This is an excellent opportunity and implies wider participation and questions/solutions.
It is and it is a good way to connect with many others. I got an offer to play in another band from my entire evenings performance.
Link to Jazz Jam last evening, May 3, 2019
https://www.facebook.com/kelli.campbell2/videos/pcb.10219149809800622/10219150020085879/?type=3&theater
@Vulgano-Brother said in Help! I need to hit that high note!:
A good exercise.
OK... But WHERE are the high notes?
@mafields627 said in Thoughts about mouthpiece placement:
I play slightly to the right... high school band director tried to center me up and it didn't work.... college trumpet professor tried to flatten out my chin and it didn't work. What has worked is keeping my mouthpiece where my natural aperture is....
Bottom line from what I learned most to respect from my medical training: Don't mess around with Mother Nature!
In my neighborhood where I grew up as a child, I was very offended by this sign displayed close to my house:
@J-Jericho said in Vintage Bach Club:
@Tobylou8 A bluehair. Just lovely... all that's missing is an assortment of tattoos.
Most "standard" committee's had minimal engraving!
@Newell-Post said in pet peeves:
@Dr-GO Actually, not quite.... A BROKEN watch is right twice per day. But, for example, a watch that is set 30 minutes ahead of the correct time, but runs true, is never correct.
Point well taken!
@Newell-Post said in pet peeves:
"Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."
-- Samuel Johnson: Letter to Fransesco Sastres (August 21, 1784)
However, watches are at least correct two times out of the day!
I just found another location for a jazz jam that appears to meet regularly on the first Saturday afternoon of the month sponsored by the Cincinnati Jazz Collaborative. So to any of our Cincinnati members (Blaine) this may be of interest to you.
@Doc-Wannabe said in Thoughts about mouthpiece placement:
....I agree you have to find what works with your unique mouth.
Yes! This last part of the comment cuts to the bigger truth. There is the anatomical side of the equation (embouchure). Then there is the equipment side of equation (mouthpiece). I truly believe that anyone can find a rim and cup combination match to accommodate the lip and denture variables of the anatomical set up to the embouchure. It takes experimentation, trial and error that in no way can be predicted by a mouthpiece chart of cup diameters of depths.
@Shifty said in Jens Lindemann about mouthpieces:
Extremely small, shallow mouthpieces simply do not resonate that well in a section. They may have good 'cutting' projection but try playing softly with a good attack...very risky. Of course, if you never have to play softly with a good sound then you should consider yourself a true specialist...go for it!
I had thought this to be true at one time. I noticed this "characteristic" with my Jettone Studio B.
HOWEVER: Fast forward to 2017 with the innovative 5 mm system created by Jason Harrelson. He made an EXACT copy of the Studio B rim and cup, but combined this with a novel throat that TOTALLY blends the cutting effect with the smooth air flow I have when playing softly and quietly on my VPS Summit. IN FACT, of all the horns I currently own, I can play the softest with the most control of pitch and sound quality on this 5 mm Jettone copy.
What Jens leaves out, is the characteristics of the backside of the mouthpiece can add so much to the performance. The 5 mm concept allows you to adjust for this.
@Tobylou8 said in Links open in a new tab?:
It's just a tweek thing I hope. But as more folks join and more links are posted to other information, I've noticed the link does not open in another tab, but in the same tab replacing the TB page. Can't tell you how many times I've closed a tab once finished and wondered, "Where'd my TB page go"??? I don't know how easy that is to fix, but it would be nice if it worked that way, at least for me.
I have just learned to hit the back arrow. Some of us here on TB are trainable! 
@Kehaulani said in Laughter is the Best Medicine:
@administrator
...Also, employment, or lack thereof, does not imply competency.
Which is why I relate to my patients that are on my critical care service: "I know CPR and 23 other letters of the alphabet".
THIS REALLY HAPPENED TO ME:
I had a pre-prostate biopsy appointment with my urologist, Dr. Yohanus, due to elevated PSA levels I had on screening labs.
As most men know, that prostate exam is not very pleasant, and I said as he entered with his gloved finger:
"Whoo!! Yohanus up my butt!
Should never have done that, as he laughed so hard while doing the exam, it was very unpleasant!
I had a follow up visit with a patient the other day to get reports on advanced testing I had performed.
I told the patient, I had bad news, and really bad news.
The patient said: Give me the really bad news.
I said: The biopsy we took confirmed you have a highly advanced, inoperable, un-treatable cancer.
Then I asked him: Do you want to hear the bad news?
He said: Yes, what is the bad news?
I said: That cognitive testing we had done shows you have an advancing stage of dementia.
The patient said: Oh, that's not so bad. I thought you were going to tell me I had cancer.
So, as fate would have it, one of my patients had succumb to a lengthy medical illness and was at the gates of Heaven, when he was greeted by St. Peter. This new Heaven inductee had a rather busy morning orientation session where all of Heaven's activities were discusses, sections of the Pearly Gate visited, and all behind the theme that in Heaven, everyone is equal and has equal chance an opportunities to all Heaven has to offer.
So after a fatiguing morning orientation, it was finally time to visit Heaven's lunchroom. But as you can imagine, the line was very lengthy. So my patient and St Peter entered the end of the line, when all of the sudden, out of no where this stately individual with a white coat and stethoscope around the neck came running in and cut right into the front of the line. The new recruit turned to St. Peter and asked: "Hey, what goes on here? I thought were were all equal? How is it that this individual can cut into the line?
Peter then states: " Oh, That's just God... He thinks he's a Doctor!"
I shall start:
Eddie Brookshire, the bassist and leader of the quintet and one of the big bands that I play in has taught me a LOT of jazz over the years. HOWEVER, he doesn't know it but he actually has helped me out in my medicine profession:
The other day I had a married couple schedule a session with me as they have complained that as their years of marriage has progressed, they just don't talk to one another any more. So I had them both come in for session, and asked them to first start, to open up to me as to when and how this all started.
Then for 5 minutes... Pure silence. I tried visual cues to get them to open up... but nothing.
So I had an idea. We had a double bass in the back storage room, so I brought it out and into the conference room and started playing. They then broke into spontaneous conversation, because it is well known:
EVERYONE TALKS DURING THE BASS SOLO!
OK. A Thread on MEDICAL humor. I know there is a Humor thread in the Lounge, so with this thread under Medical Concerns, please stick to medical topics, so that individuals in search of humor for medical healing can come here for their dose of laughter!
