Posts made by Dr GO

@administrator said in Musical Instrument Yard Sale:

@fairoakshorns

If only I weren't 2000 miles away!

Oh but our member TMD lives just around the corner... and he has a trumpet addiction disorder!

@mike-ansberry said in Olds Recording 1951 era plays flat.:

I really don't care about the physics involved. I am just glad I am able to keep the pitch up without working my butt off again.

Not really physics but anatomy. The tongue is on the top end, the butt on the bottom end... he said, tongue in cheek...

Jason Harrelson must agree as well as I heard he uses CarolBrass valve blocks for his horns. Love my Harrelson, and love the valve block!

Oh... the progress will grow exponentially.... after about 20 years! But until that time, linear growth is fun as well. Your progress will ALWAYS be dependent on endurance. So the fact that you have a teacher, your linear growth phase will have a more rapid slope.

I started out as a keyboard player, a Hammond B-3. Two levels of keyboards and several octaves of foot pedals. BUT just flip the switch off and on with the Leslie... and man, ANYTHING on that organ will sound good!

Now, reflecting back, with all that multiple tasking to achieve on an organ, I still found the trumpet more of a challenge, as it is all about your physiology conquering the physics of brass tubing... and to me, that is very gratifying.

Just listening to a snip from out gig on Thursday. This is a cut from "Moon Dance". That is me on flugelhorn.

https://www.facebook.com/100063121514128/videos/pcb.142118957902154/212471770486514

Son of a B'! The LA recording leadpipe measures in at 13.125 inches, and the Fullerton Recording at exactly 13.000 inches. So the LA leadpipe is aa eighth of an inch longer than the Fullerton, which may explain why it plays flat in both your hands and my hands. I mean, it couldn't be the hands being that we are both sharp lads!

@oldpete said in HELP! Corona has struck...:

Unfortunately I can't use anything commercially sold in the US because the stuff is not available under those trade names here...

Ahhh, but hot water is universal!

@curlydoc said in HELP! Corona has struck...:

Run hot water over the the lead pipe and the third valve insertion tube for about five minutes. It has worked for me several times.

Put the physics of coefficient of expansion of metal at work!

@bigdub said in Artist on BOARD:

@georgeb
Thanks, George.
...a one time payment of $100 ( USD) to the Light Houses of NJ
Just kidding. I would never do that! I appreciate your kind words

Light-en up Bigdub on our friend GeorgeB.

See you have been taking advantage of the legalized Marijuana laws in NJ and light-ing up there as well. A bit uninhibited you are.

My shrink told me it was better to have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Song based on a minor scale, Joe Henderson's Canyon Lady:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=t-O7ifi6zKE&list=OLAK5uy_lXnOTsHrZsKs4KosVO-7x7LvI77ur4ehs

Levitating is basically a song composed on scales going down then back up:

Youtube Video

This one would be definitely focused to hitting sharps.

@trumpetsplus said in The value of scales:

"Scales" present a wonderful opportunity to "grade" players. Apply a demerit for each wrong note. This is not what I teach at all.

I agree and really appreciate your point. This is truly an abuse of their use. I can recall back in Middle School and even High School, this is exactly how they were applied. This is truly a wrong application.

Scales are highly influential in providing a foundation in which to build your voice. Those scales stick in your mind as a bridge that helps coordinate phrasing. Scales are a part of the phrasing and where the rest of the phrasing then goes from the scale base, well that becomes your voice, and you own it from that point on.

I still work on scales and rudiment phrases to this day, as that foundation needs to be reinforced so it will not someday crumble.

@georgeb said in Need some information on this item.:

Yeah, none of those gadgets for me. I know a lot a people will disagree with me, but I don't even buzz. I found the time is better spent with the horn on my face.

Always love GeorgeB comments as we almost always agree. Once again, his advice is well served. I find buzzing adds nothing when you have a trumpet available to put your mouthpiece on.

THE ONLY TIMES I buzz is when I need to practice an have no trumpet available, such as on a Disney Cruise where they will confiscate your instrument if you bring it on board.

@tornado1957 said in Need some information on this item.:

Quite obvious its a BUZZIT! Duh!
I just want to know more about it. Like age, what you do with it, and is it worth anything? Never seen one, that is why I'm seeking some help here!

Please refer to my "serious" reply. I truly believe buzzing is best done against "controlled" resistance. The Buzzit does not off this option.