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@masterwannabe said in An Interesting Situation I ran Into Today - Wonder if anyone Else Has Or Your Thoughts:

Has anyone heard of any schools putting this kind of restriction on the students?
Yes I have and see my comment above

does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle a situation as this.
Yes, and see my comment above.

As a physician trained in both adult and pediatric medicine, I find ABC analysis works best at changing behavior. Your question is going to the point of a behavioral change, and if you can find an antecedent (A) to a behavior (B), Or rather a consequence (C) (preferentially a positive one) of such a behavior, the a behavior (recommendation of a specific instrument) can be changed.

@kehaulani said in An Interesting Situation I ran Into Today - Wonder if anyone Else Has Or Your Thoughts:

Tell the teacher the next conversation you will have is with the Superintendent of Schools.

I would not recommend going to the Superintendent as the fist course of action. I would fist go to the band director to ask them and where they get such information isolated to just two horns, and what it is of the quality of these two horns that led them to this recommendation. If they state it is because these companies donate to the program, then that is a reason to go to a Superintendents. But I doubt that if the Superintendent is first approached, that this would change the behavior of the band director.

Direct communication with the person making a recommendation is the first step to take in the art of communication. If the person making the decision does not hear directly of the conflict between themselves and others, then there is no conversation, and less then optimal decisions continue to be made.

@bigdub said in Artist on BOARD:

@dr-go said in Artist on BOARD:

Other than that, how did you like the painting?

Ahh... now asking me for second opinions. You think you can afford it?

@masterwannabe said in About Olds Ambassadors:

...I noticed very little difference in the sound... "it is not so much about the hardware but the software".

So true. I have found that the match between the appropriate mouthpiece shank and leadpipe bore can make or break the sound generated by a horn. This takes me back in memory to a lesson I had with Claudio Roditi, when he had me try out a horn he bought for $75 at a street sale in Upper Manhattan. I played the horn with my mouthpiece and I said, "Claudio, it sounds like a $75 horn". Claudio then gave me a mouthpiece hand crafted for that horn Jerome Callet and the horn just sang. At the end of that lesson, Claudio took me to Jerome's studio where he crafted me a perfect mouth piece for my Olds Recording. All Jerome did was go back and forth on his lathe at grinding on the backbore.

@bigdub said in Artist on BOARD:

@dr-go

I think I might have broken my middle toe, no less.

In that case I recommend you "buddy tape" your middle toe to your second toe for several weeks until it heals.

@georgeb said in Artist on BOARD:

@bigdub

Well, now, maybe he's a witch doctor and put some kind of hex on you....

Nah... Hexes cost an extra $300, and is not typically covered by Medicare.

@bigdub said in Artist on BOARD:

@dr-go
Last night I stubbed my toe on the leg of our bed….big time.

Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.

PS: That'll be $248... less then half the cost of one of your paintings... so who's making the big bucks now?

@bigdub said in Artist on BOARD:

No. I'm pretty sure he's a veterinarian.

I do practice pediatrics... so not too far away from the truth.

@bigdub said in Artist on BOARD:

@dr-go said in Artist on BOARD:

@georgeb said in Artist on BOARD:

@bigdub

Wow ! I can almost hear the roar of the water. Great work, Wayne.

It's not the water, it's Wayne roaring after stubbing his toe on the isle that fell on him when he was moving the painting.

Never heard of an isle falling on anyone. Might be a first. LOL
MAYBE you meant easel? I don’t know, I just don’t know.
Oddly enough, I don’t use an easel much. Hardly ever. Just with very big canvases. And I try my best not to stub my toe on it…….

The editor is back, change made!

@georgeb said in Artist on BOARD:

@bigdub

Wow ! I can almost hear the roar of the water. Great work, Wayne.

It's not the water, it's Wayne roaring after stubbing his toe on the easel that fell on him when he was moving the painting.

@bigdub said in A little humour:
( asking for a friend )

Yeah, right!

@barliman2001 said in A little humour:

@dr-go A man goes into a store and asks for mothballs, gets a 100 pack, leaves. Returns an hour later and asks for more, gets another 100, leaves. Returns another hour later, asks for mothballs, and the assistant is asking him, "Why on earth are you needing so many mothballs?" - "The bastard things are so difficult to hit!"

Even harder when they are still attached to the moth. But they in theory will flutter down nicely onto the green if you can float them over to that direction.

@bigdub said in A little humour:

I often find rabbit feces on my property, but no species.

And I have often tried to identify mothballs, but I just can't get their little legs spread far enough apart.

@kehaulani said in Trombone Help:

@barliman2001 said
We

Is that French confirming or pronoun inclusive plural?

@georgeb said in About Olds Ambassadors:

@j-jericho

I'm not thinking of an Ambassador to replace anything I presently own... But the used pro models are very pricey, so I was just curious about the Ambassador line.

I look at it this way George, the horn plays great and is very inexpensive that I do all my vacation traveling with it such that if it is lost or stolen, there is minimal volume loss.

@dale-proctor said in About Olds Ambassadors:

I don’t think you’ll find many (or any at all) professional players, past or present, using an Ambassador outside of the jazz/big band world. I used an Ambassador trumpet with good success in a big band for a few years, but it wasn’t acceptable for classical playing.

Dale, I absolutely agree with this. My comments above relate to the most types of playing I do which is small jazz ensembles. But when I play classical, my Recordings get that gig. Their sound is rich and they can really sing.