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@turtletrumpet The simplist way I know is to find the snipp it tool in your browsers search window, open it, choose New then frame the picture, copy, then paste it on your TB reply window.

@georgeb said in Helloooooo:

@dale-proctor

After my retirement 20 years ago my 6 figure income dropped to 5 figures on the low side. My reportable income hasn't changed much these past 20 years. But I get by.
George

George, I also retired after receiving my settlement on advice of my lawyers. I was employed as a University Professor (not a physician)... and actually the income I got for the patients I did bill for the University was LESS then what I made as a musician... NO KIDDING!. In my "retirement" I now receive my state pension, which in Ohio is a nice income, PLUS I now work as a fulltime physician with a hospital based medical system so now receive a physician's salary and retirement benefits. In so doing, to keep my tax burden down, I donate $10,000 a year each to two State Universities in Ohio (University of Cincinnati [a chemistry scholarship] and Wright State University [an arts scholarship]) that goes to pay an undergraduate student's tuition.

Honestly, I would still donate even without the tax benefit as I feel so badly for the cost of a University tuition these days. It was so much easier to afford a tuition when I went to college 40 years ago.

AND a NICE donation to TrumpetBoards will be coming again soon as well.

A picture would be helpful. Usually the serial number is on the third slide. There is a PS1 model but the extra 19 throws me off.

The C7 was produced to be a sound copy of the Martin Committee. It is loved by Lawler owners as it has very accurate attack and intonation while having the darker sound of the Committee. But a copy of the Committee it is not. The Martin Committee has a more "greasy" attack but if you know how to play one has excellent intonation.

@kehaulani said in Helloooooo:

Gee. Three times in income as many make in salary. I feel so inadequate.

Don't feel so inadequate kehaulani. As you incorrectly assumed, I did not pay these taxes on salary. I had to pay taxes and legal fees on a million dollar lawsuit settlement I was awarded through the Ohio Supreme Court in their support against my State University employer. I had to endure threats of firing and then bullying for 10 years after I called them out for harming one of my patients after I reported them for HIPAA violations, ,and then filing Federal retaliation laws. The State Courts found after an extensive investigation that finally supported appropriate actions on my part, Bottom line: Don't F**k around with a trumpet player!

Was it worth it? No. That million dollars, minus taxes and legal fees, does not even come close to recovering the 365 days a year x 10 years of mental anguish. I do not wish this pain an torture on anyone,

Been involved with doing taxes and rehearsal for Easter Services. Just finished both and back to life.

Excited about taxes as I get about $800 back this year, especially when I had to pay $280,000 in taxes the year before.

What Barlimen2001 says rings true. One horn does not rule them all. So get to a conference or trumpet hang and try what you see, and maybe, just maybe, you will find the horn for you.

Learning from the Greats. A summary of Jazz Quotes:

Charles Mingus: ‘"You can’t improvise on nothin’, man. You gotta improvise on somethin’". AND "In my music, I am trying to play the truth in what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I am changing all the time.

Wynton Marsalis: "In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others." AND "Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them."

George Gershwin: "Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise."

Cecil Taylor: "Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself."

Sonny Rolins: "I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music."

Mose Allison: "As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

Ahmad Jamal: "Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play."

Thelonious Monk: " I don't know were jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens."

Oscar Peterson: "It's group sound that's important. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times.

Miles Davis: "Do not fear mistakes. There are none."

Louis Armstrong: "There are only two ways to sum up music: Either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess with it, you just enjoy it.

Duke Ellington: "By enlarge jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

John Coltrane: "My music is the spiritual expression of what I am- my faith, my knowledge, my being... When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups... I want to speak to their souls."

Charlie Parker: "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." AND "Don't play the saxophone, let it play you."

Billy Holiday: "I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, than it ain't music. its a close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something not music.

Bill Evans: "What bugs me is when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Dizzy Gillespie: '"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play"

@vulgano-brother said in Which trumpet to buy?:

Try a bunch of horns (including those not on your list) and let the right one find you.

I tried a bunch of horns and many found me, each one right in their own way... kinda like trumpet polygamy.

Directions Taken that Contribute to Jazz Improvisation. The arrows represent input, implicit or tacit from the performance environment. Note some arrows are ignored, some incorporated, and those incorporated lead in a singular direction toward a structured performance outcome.

Social and Technical Structures Used in Developing Jazz Improvisation:

The following is illustrative of the response by Trumpetsplus:

https://www.jazzadvice.com/lessons/six-jazz-improvisation-secrets-from-louis-armstrong/

Melody is the key. Being able to sing around the melody is most helpful, and I would say essential in developing an improvisational jazz voice. When you learn to sing a melody around the melody, your have a roadmap to success. This was the foundation Claudio Roditi instilled in me when I took lessons from him in the years I lived in New York City.

Avoiding riffs or patterns? Now, I would caution against a strict rule to "avoiding" patterns or riffs. Riffs and patterns are great techniques to transforming a melodic line into another direction, like an announcement from one reference point to another. Again, let's go back to Louis Armstrong: "Mastering the V7 to I progression is essential for any improviser. In fact, it’s one of the most basic building blocks of functional harmony and an integral part of nearly every jazz standard. The more tools you have for navigating this chord movement the better. And like most things musical, studying Louis Armstrong is a great place to start…"

So using the melodies is key, patterns and riffs can be the glue that threads them together.

The Harrelson Summit with a 7 bell and 4 lead pipe, does it all. Very responsive to the way you deliver air. It can play rich dark sounds but with more of an attack, effortless play clear bright lead notes. The lowest resistance trumpet I have ever played, so easy to play is an understatement.

In a word: Swing.

@barliman2001 said in Shortness of Breath, Coughing with Trumpet Playing - Is it Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis?:

@dr-go Regular spitballs are stored in an alcoholic cleaning liquid that can do the job as well, if you use three or four new spitballs each time.

Yes, sounds like a great way to saturate the tubing without consuming greater volumes through soaking.

@vulgano-brother said in What are you listening to?:

@dr-go

I dig your lack of posture.

Teaching medical students for 27 years can do that to you.

@georgeb said in What are you listening to?:

@dr-go
Hey, Doc, I always appreciate your playing. You always have a great sound be it Flugel or Trumpet.
George

I appreciate the appreciation. My sound is only as great as the players that surround me. I am lucky that way to be in the presence of excellent musicians. They show me the way to go. On the cut above, the guitar strumming and chord voicing directed the attack and imrpov direction I would follow. That's what I just love about playing, is getting into a conversation with others, and over the years learning how to best communicate among players. Of course practicing every day for over 50 years probably helps a bit too.

@administrator Thanks for the appreciation. That is my Kanstul 1526 4 valve with a 3C Flip Oakes mouthpiece. That combination gives such a buttery tone and phrasing textures.

A medical student I was teaching just found were he matched for residency training. He was so excited but saddened that he would be leaving the Dayton area he wanted to share a memory with me from a few years back

After he finished a course I was teaching on lipid metabolism during his first year of medical school, at the end of a semester. he wanted to get back to focusing less on medicine and more on music. So he invited me over to his home and we recorded an iTunes song performed by his sister, with him putting down drum, guitar and keyboard tracks, and me on Flugelhorn.

After that session, he wanted to do a version of "Fly Me to the Moon", no music in front of us and here is what we did, unrehearsed and in one take:
Youtube Video

@kehaulani said in BlowDry Brass System:

"Good to hear from you. I hope all is well at your new home in Germany!"

Ivan, you relocated to Germany? Where?

@georgeb said in Pneumonia - how long to pause?:

@barliman2001

Wow, sir, your experience scares the hell out of me. Even though my lungs are healthy, at 85 years of age, one never knows when something like pneumonia can rear its ugly head....
George

So George, if you have not received it yet, get the Pneumococcal Vaccine, Pneumovax 24 at this time. Then the hell scare goes away.