@coolerdave said in Latest Steal:
My first Bach was a 43* my graduation present.. probably 1973 ... didn't know they made different models when I bought it... some guy at Sam Ash brought me in a room with 20 Bachs.. said find the one you like. Nice find!
Coolerdave, great to have you here!
@barliman2001 said in New old friend:
Coolerdave - whom some of you may remember from TM days - has found the light and is now where he belongs: in this community of trumpet lovers.
Welcome, Dave!
Ohoh That means I will need to stop plagiarizing his Facebook memes that I have been posting in the Humor section. Coolerdave, can you find it in your heart to forgive?
@dale-proctor said in Latest Steal:
I paid $150 at a junk store for this ML 43…lol
(I added the case cover later, though)
Wow! JUST WOW.
@shifty said in Password expiry - why?:
I've been here since we started (March 2019) and have never been asked to change my password. I do stay logged in between sessions (usually).
I too have been here without log in problems with the exception of a brief period when a Moderator had unilaterally banned me off of TB out of a fit of rage. That Moderator was later permanently banned when his rage continued onto others here at TB, so in a way, I feel vindicated for that brief time away.
I experienced this first hand (and still have it intact, THANK GOD) when I traveled to Saudi Arabi with my Pocket Trumpet. I had it confiscated 3x at airports I traveled through at the time (in 2014). Each time, it was returned to me by a superior agent after I had the chance to plea with them that I only intended to practice the horn in the privacy of my hotel room with a silent mute attachment (that I took out of the case and showed them). In each case, the horn was returned with the warning not to play in public.
I did play it once, during a celebration party of my visit, way out in the desert after I thought I had silently walked away from the host, where I played Caravan. As fate would have in, several host diplomates followed me out into the desert (unbeknownst by me) and heard me playing. I turned around to see applause. I returned from that party, hands intact.
@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:
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:
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:
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:
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!
