Posts made by Dr GO

@tjcombo

Take away TobyLou and my posts though, and we are down by half!

@MasterWannabe said in Newby - Need help identifying a Conn Trumpet:

@Tobylou8
I am new here so please how to post pictures to this.

THE ABSOLUTE easiest way is to go to your computers "Type here to search" on the toll bar, write in snipping, and the tool window appears. Click on "New"; capture the image you want; go to Edit and click "Save" then go to the reply window on TB right click and chose "Paste". It is fool proof, and the fact that I am a fool and my pictures make it here on TB is proof.

@tjcombo said in A little humour:

@moshe I took a moment to get it too - a few seconds, but then again, I'm only 62

I am 63 and got it right away, probably because I FEEL LIKE A MILLION and am now in early retirement!!!!

@Vulgano-Brother said in A little humour:

What would I do if I won a million dollars?
Continue to play gigs until the money ran out.

ABSOLUTELY:

I JUST DID and am continuing to play gigs until the money runs out!

@SchilkeB6 said in Torpedo Cases:

@Tobylou8
Just a gag for when I am talkingto people.

AND Who knows, when someday you may be playing with the trio supporting Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz.
While Oz didn't give Tin Man something he didn't already have... THANK GOD SchilkeB6 will be there for his oil:

@trickg said in Torpedo Cases:

I've got a nylon Outlaw that was issued by the National Guard band, and I use that case a lot - it's just a great design - well made and very very protective of the horn inside of it.

One day if I ever get the notion, I might splurge and buy myself a Torpedo case in leather.

I'll be bringing mine brown Outlaw Loredo when I come to visit the first weekend in May!

@flugelgirl said in Torpedo Cases:

I have a nylon triple that is my go to - 99% of my gigs require a flugel, and the large lid fits my Adams F2 beautifully. I also have a leather Outlaw and a nylon classic. If I just need a trumpet I’ll usually use the outlaw. Great cases! I’ve been using mine for years and they barely show a scuff, and I have travelled with them a lot!

Yes same for me. My nylon black triple goes with me with the quintet in our band bus whenever we travel as I need to use the flugel and trumpet as well. When I fly, I bit the bullet and only take single horn Loredo as it fits into any overhead bin. And yes while the nylon is indestructible, the leather is nearly perfect without scuffs and I fly with it at least 4 times a year.

Trent, have you ever tried a Getzen Power Bore? Add a Jettone Studio B to the Getzen, I believe this is even a brighter mouthpiece/horn combination.

@BigDub said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:
...and then have to "pitch"-a-fit! Or perhaps even a "perfect fit"... Yes?

Now you're talking about my special mute......from Brazil?

Does it? And does it match that Freudian Slip?

This is my remaining family of bags with the larger being the three horn bags with an extended top for larger bell fluglehorns, such as my Getzen and Kanstul. The large black bag is in nylon (it is my workhorse bag), the brown is in leather. In this picture the single horn on the left is another Outlaw Loredo, and the single horn case on the right is the Loredo. The Loredo is a slightly larger version than it's Outlaw cousin:

These are some of the most protective and yet eye appealing cases on the market. I have a family of cases, and am starting with the Outlaw Loredo, this one in gun metal black with the mute bag and the music pouch side bag. The Outlaw Lorado I have in brown is my travel choice as the Outlaw series fits in the overhead bins of the peddle jumpers I have to take out of Dayton to get to larger airline hubs.

@BigDub said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

@moshe said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

I assume that a person needs perfect pitch (or close to it) to play trombone ?

Most trombone players I have known seem to have the opposite of perfect pitch, because if they did, they would be living with constant frustration.

...and then have to "pitch"-a-fit! Or perhaps even a "perfect fit"... Yes?

@Peter-Mac said in Great Idea!:

I thought I was the only one that made and wore slips!!

I wear Freudian slips all the time. Little was it known that a psychiatrist was into woman's undergarments.

Not known as a horn band, but this is my ALL TIME FAVORITE BAND... Even beats out any jazz band that comes to mind:

This is a little known song by the band that I played with my Rock Band in my college days. I arranged harmonizing horn parts where the synthesizer plays in this original cut, as well as wrote in some horn punches to funk it up a bit more. Love it at 2:38 when the song is ending and the singer begins a discussion regarding trying to find the bridge. In our live performance we really extended this section, with additional horn voiceings and are lead singer enguating the audience into the conversation. It was an amazing crowd pleaser.

BTW Here was the pic of my Rock Band that played an amazing rendition of this song during my College days. If you are trying to identify me, yes, I am the most handsome one in the picture!

@Kehaulani said in I played a D# !!:

Are we talking about the same note D# , above high C, in the third trumpet?

I have seen a chart or two with this. An example is a Thad Jones and Mel Lewis chart, since the 2nd part is not unusual to be a solo trumpet, so those close upper harmonies with the lead player is then delegated to the third part. And I imagine a Maynard chart would have this occurring over occasions as well.

@Rapier232 said in need perfect pitch to play trombone ?:

@moshe
Doubt it. Perfect pitch is quite rare. Some university did a study recently and found it’s something like only 1 in 10,000.

Agreed. I believe however that "relative pitch" is a much more prevalent and easier sensory skill to adapt to playing, and I can see where this would be a real asset to a trombone player (or a fretless bass player as well).

Congratulations from this end as well. The D# and the Ab and especially the A above that D# in the upper range are particularly challenging, as I find any high range combination including the second valve as a little tricky for slotting. When you are up in that range, the slotting gets tighter so you can tend to glide to another "false tonic" unless you are solid on the note. Can't do much to make that D# or Ab easier, but for the A, using the false fingering third valve only really helps to lock that A into place.

@SchilkeB6 said in Scream Machine by Maynard Ferguson... Wow!!:

@Dr-GO
Okay, I give....

I have met you and can't tell which one is you on the album cover!

As I noted, the band we initially formed later evolved into Kinesis. This album was cut a year after I left Ft. Collins for graduate school in NYC. So this is the photo of the band after I left. Mark Schloniker (on the right in the blue sweater) took over the keyboards and synthesizers after I left. I did come back to visit that band pictured above and they were heavily recruiting me come back to the group and add me on the Hammond B3 (as well as a second synthesizer presence), but I was at that time too involved with my NYC projects and turned the offer down to rejoin.

So that is why there is no one recognizable as me in that picture.