"...I'm going to finally buy the perfect mouthpiece"...
As have I... each year for every year I have been playing the trumpet. Yep Yep... Have 50 perfect mouthpieces I have... Yep Yep.
Welcome to TB and look forward to reading your shared knowledge as you have more to offer here than you may think... and if you have a good enough offer, I can sell you one of my perfect mouthpieces, that would be just perfect for you, I am perfectly sure.
This is the version I played. I played the melody line on the 1st verse; the vocal descant line on the second verse; sat out (organ solo) the third verse; and the descant trumpet line the forth verse:
I have noticed this topic has been dormant for the past Easter, as I imagine Covid restrictions has been so critical in impacting large gatherings. I just finished a day of playing Easter Services at an area Lutheran Church, that had a full service, all masking, using alternating pews with staggered seating in family units. It worked well.
For this service, I was fortunate to get Descant Trumpet parts for all Hymns and had traditional organ trumpet parts for the opening Prelude, Te Duem, and the processional, The Trumpet Shall Sound.
The Traditional Selections Included:
Bist Du Bei Mir
Now All the Vaults
Crist the Lord Is Risen Today
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
@bigdub said in Artist on BOARD:
I am working right now on three cat portraits. I will admit it is a struggle. Particularly with the eyes and getting the proper emotion. I was fortunate to find this reference poster. This really makes it crystal clear.
Yeah... THAT THEY ARE CAT-ATONIC!
@bigdub said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
@dr-go said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
@bigdub said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
@dr-go
We now know you can’t perform a k-turn in a k-nalOh, but you k-an
I-kan, but that freighter Kaptain apparently k-ant.
Said the Kaptain in a r-ant.
...and even more important, welcome back mickvanflugel. Glad you are back and don't be a stranger here, or a least not stranger then me!
@dr-go said in mickvanflugel is back:
@administrator said in mickvanflugel is back:
Did A-N-A Mendez ever make his way back?
I believe he came here earlier but with another avatar. Haven't seen him back though in quit a while.
Found his listing in our Archives. He last posted here in May of 2019.
@bigdub said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
@dr-go
We now know you can’t perform a k-turn in a k-nal
Oh, but you k-an
@administrator said in mickvanflugel is back:
Did A-N-A Mendez ever make his way back?
I believe he came here earlier but with another avatar. Haven't seen him back though in quit a while.
@shifty said in Fickle playing...:
“Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.” — Dizzy Gillespie
So true. I am still playing on horns that have ages that may challenge my own longevity, such as my 1939 Olds Super Recording (although so far GeorgeB has this one beat!)
@bigdub said in Jackie Gleason Plays Cornet:
@dale-proctor
Another thought: how many times have you seen someone ( try to ) play the Carnival of Venice with about a 6”x8” sheet of music on a lyre?
Not me, oh no, and trust this response as I am not a lyre.
My perspective, is bad days and good days happen. When practice routine is regular where physical tone (not sound tone) is maintained, it still happens. And typically it is you, the player that feels it, but others around you don't. So, even after decades (6 for me) of playing, this still happens to me. perhaps one or two days out of the week, to my own expectations, I am a bit off. And after all these decades of playing, I have not come up to recognizing one particular barrier that is responsible for this. And when this happens, I accept it, then move forward to continue playing, but with more concentration and thought to keep me on tract.
Who knows, maybe these "bad days" happen for the better to get us concentrating more on our playing, otherwise we would be taking things for granted and when we become blasé we loose our ability to progress. Reframing these events into a positive prospective helps, I do believe.
@dale-proctor said in King Silver Flair - Buying Advice:
@richard-iii said in King Silver Flair - Buying Advice:
Why wouldn't you put the horn back in the case when you are done playing?
He doesn’t want to put it back in the case, so he’s building a case to put it in...lol
...just incase.
Reading this just validates my decision to get 5 mm mouthpieces by Harrelson. They have 5 modular parts that include the rim, cup, throat, back bore, that screw into the main base. Each kit comes with several choices of these components so you can mix and match.
@georgeb said in KGU Brass Mod Kits & Boosters:
If these kits add weight to the horn I'm guessing it darkened the sound considerably, which a lot of jazz players like, and perhaps Bob is one of them.
Added weight may also be good for heavy metal!
@administrator said in KGU Brass Mod Kits & Boosters:
@bobmiller1969
Wow, beautiful. I feel the desire to refurb my Radial now.
DO IT!
