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Joey DeFrancesco has left us much too early at age 51. Not only a renowned organist but also a very accomplished trumpet player. More than once I thought I was hearing a recording of Miles only to being floored that it was Joey.

@administrator said in Why are so many threads just getting locked down?:

I like newer threads to be created on older topics.

And I like wearing newer threads on my older top parts!

OK. My signature line says it all.

@administrator said in Martin Committee Club:

@tjcombo said in Martin Committee Club:

I joined the Committee club during lockdown about a year back with this beauty.

What year / bore size? I think you got a great deal.

First, welcome to the club. This is a deluxe. The feel so good don't they. I love mine like a crazy and it gets the nod for all my small combo work. The flexibility of moving through notes is unmatched by any other horn once the player knows how to control such flexibility. It is ALMOST the equivalent as the fretless bass of trumpets.

@kehaulani said in James Morrison Trumpet Tutorial Series:

In my case, I can play higher by playing softer. It's harder to play the same high note at blastissimo.

I do not find this to be the case for me. Playing the high note at higher volume actually allows me to relax my embouchure over playing softy. Less resistance leads to easier production of the sound.

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Crisp!

@vulgano-brother said in How many is too many?:

@dr-go I used to have eleven trumpets. Now I'm down to seven. Needed to sell four to afford the prescriptions you wrote me under a bridge away from cameras.

Well worth it.

But you see, now you are cured, AND maintained on the appropriate meds. Mike on the other hand... He requires ongoing therapy... but its getting harder to find bridges without camera surveillance.

@vulgano-brother said in AR Resonance Mouthpieces:

@barliman2001 said in [AR Resonance Mouthpieces]

A fun project is to match the popping frequency of the backbore to the cup, filing off the end of the shank until they match--then machine a Morse taper to the appropriate end diameter.

Adds zing to the response.

I agree to the above, but you can do this as well with the Harrelson Gap Kit.

@georgeb said in How many is too many?:

@dr-go said in How many is too many?:

@tmd said in How many is too many?:

How many is too many? I'm guessing more than 16.

Mike

As a medical professional I may suggest perhaps you need medical help.

Yes, and you can pay Doc so many horns per visit.
George

Mike

What he said. Just got to find an ICD-10 code to cover it!

@tmd said in How many is too many?:

How many is too many? I'm guessing more than 16.

Mike

As a medical professional I may suggest perhaps you need medical help.

Here are some better images comparing the front and back ends of the Jet-tone Studio B and Harrelson copy:

Backbore end

Cup End

@shepherds_crook said in AR Resonance Mouthpieces:

@dr-go oh no! You purchased a gold mouthpiece … I can think of a million better ways to spend my money

That gold mouthpiece did not cost me a dime.

Jason threw the gold mouthpiece in for the original price I paid for the trumpet 4 years prior to receiving delivery of the horn. Yes, as you remember it took Jason 4 years to deliver on this horn. In Jason's defense, I purchased it at a time between which he had a stroke and then moved his business from Minnesota to Colorado. But his professionalism and business sense did provide me with a better horn, leadpipe and mouthpiece to fit on that leadpipe.

Hear are pictures of the cup comparisons of the Harrelson copy (on left) and the Jet-tone Studio B (on right)

@newell-post said in AR Resonance Mouthpieces:
...... Jet-Tone. Yeah, I know the current ones are reproductions and some people are obsessed with the originals...

I will go on record as being one of the individuals recognizing the performance advantage I had of my vintage Jet-tone, but that was an impression not based on the inferiority of the newer Jet-tone but more on the revelation perspective of "let the buyer beware" perspective.

I had an original Studio B and was told by a music store owner that the "Al Hirt" model was an exact copy. It wasn't. The newer Al Hirt model I still have feels comfortable, but it does not have the range enhancement match of the original Studio B (that was actually given to me by Maynard Ferguson). I only got the newer replacement when I thought I lost my Studio B, panicked as I had a lead gig to play soon after realizing I could not find the Studio B. Fortunately, I soon found the original Studio B so all was well for that gig.

Now let me jump ahead about a decade, when I had Jasson Harrelson make me a 5 mm Studio B copy. It was prefect in every way, from the feel to the ease of high range performance. ONE DIFFERENCE and to the advantage. The 5 mm allowed me to play with the backbore as Jason's 5 mm mouthpieces are modular composites. I found his version reproduced a true Jet-tone copy on the front end with a new backbore creation that provided an performance endurance to the original Studio B. The problem I had with the Studio B was after about an hour of playing, I would start bottoming out as fatigue set in. With the Harreslon copy and the larger backbore, I have yet had the problem with bottoming out over time.