Posts made by Dr GO

An interesting use of trumpet for a more new age performer:

Here is the direct link to the Harrelson site to enquirer. Do be prepared for sticker shock. Also, do wait on sale pricing. I did get a sale offer over the summer of 40% off the price. But when it comes to comfort and performance enhancement, the mouthpiece is a keeper (for any horn due to the backbore options), and in the long run will be more economical than buying a different mouthpiece for each horn.

https://www.whyharrelson.com/store/p367/5MM_Modular_Mouthpiece_(9pc_Kit)_.html

This video will help explain the 5mm concept:

What is missing from this list is the 5mm design by Harrelson, It will be more expensive than the comparisons on the list you have posted, but the investment is worth it. I have used a Jettone Studio B for years on my lead horns (prior to Harrelson the Getzen Superbore). With all horns and the standard Jettone, it performed well for awhile, only to lead to me bottoming out as demand increased (usually after the first 2 hours of play).

Harrelson copied the Jettone rim and cup for me, but their 5mm system allowed me to substitute a wider throat. That made all the difference in the world. So the resistance with a small and shallow rim was removed by using a wider throat. I might suggest that system for your assistance in supporting your unique embouchure.

Deleted out of respect for Kehaulani.

I agree with BOTH moderators.... I did wait a minute or so before I hit the submit button.

@Niner said in A little humour:

My brother went bald years ago but he still carries around a comb with him just like when he was young. He just can't part with it.

Woman gets in taxi and tells the driver: "Take me to the hairstylist at he corner of 12th and Main".

When they arrive the woman pays and thanks him and says this place does a really good job and he should check it out.

The cab driver pulls of his hat an points to his head at which point the lady says: "There is no shame in being bald". To which the cab driver replies, "Depends on how you spell it mam."

@tjveloce said in The One:

I took my mute and the Committee to my horn tech today and in less than 30 minutes he cut and glued another layer of cork on to the mute. It now has enough "standoff" or gap and the horn blows much more freely and sounds better. Problem solved.

-tj

Wow... Does THAT look sexy!

@barliman2001 said in A little humour:

A guy to his friends: "My mother-in-law has now reached her ideal weight." -
"Really? And what is it?" -
"Seven pounds including the urn."

Question to an art loving economist: What's a Grecian urn?
Answer: About $1.20 an hour

@mrhappy said in Excellent interview of Doc Severinsen:

There's supposed to be a documentary coming out.

I believe that would be a Doc-umentary.

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

Why do cows have hooves instead of feet?

Because they lactose!

THAT is what I call milking a pun!

@Shepherds_Crook said in The One:

you might need a 2nd Harmon/Bubble mute for that Committee ... because adjusting the cork fit it will make the fit totally different on the Recording.

I agree. I have 2 Harmon mutes, one for my Committee and one for my Olds trumpets, with different cork thicknesses for this same reason.

Here is the youtube video I sent. It is quit beautiful:

Youtube Video

I remember a call out to TM members a year and a half ago for how to succeed in getting the nod to play an Easter Service for a Lutheran Church in a nearby city after I got the third degree series of questions by church members as to my prior experience in playing Lutheran services. I must admit, that service would have been my first. Got a lot of suggestions of songs, and performance styles within the Lutheran tradition, of which Barliman's suggestions were most rewarding.

I got the gig, and just as Barilman prophesized, once getting in, they will keep you in their graces thereafter. He was so right, as since that first Easter gig, they hired me to perform last year's Christmas Service, then this year's Easter Service and yes again, this Christmas Service.

The new organist sent me an email in the traditional staunch Lutheran doctrine suggesting services overview: "...let me know if you have descant trumpet parts for Christmas songs and what keys. Let's be sure we have the same musical language, so please be clear whether you are speaking about your trumpet key (assuming you have a B flat trumpet, your part will be written a step higher) or actual pitch, which I'd be playing from the keyboards. ...It would be nice to do a couple numbers featuring trumpet - no singing - in the prelude, like O holy night or Gesu Bambino."

So here is what I did, I went way out on a limb that Barilman warned me against and cautioned "stay with tradition". So boy did I stray. I suggested playing Thad Jone's "A Child is Born" and sent the chart and a YouTube recording to the organist (and cc'd it to the Pastor - An original German Lutheran Pastor).

Here was the organist's response to my recommendation: "Most of my church experience is with the Roman Catholics. "A Child is Born" is lovely, but would definitely raise eyebrows in the Catholic church. I will let Pastor Holst decide about that."

Then it came, straight from Pastor Heidi Holst: "Dear Musicians, I just had the opportunity to listen to the A Child- piece. It is beautiful but it is a quite jazzy arraignment...." So I may have just cracked the traditional Lutheran glass ceiling, and just perhaps this will come off in the honor of Saint Thad Jones!

What are your performance plans for Christmas Services TB Members?

@tjveloce said in The One:

@Dr-GO

While we're on the subject of the Committee's design, do you have any problems with your harmon mute in it?

What is your experience?

-tj

I use a 1960's vintage Harmon. The cork is worn down significantly. This makes for an exceptional fit and really mellows the tone of the Committee to a dark richness that matches the quality of Miles. LOVE IT WITH A PASSION!

Another memory was triggered after reading Kehaulani's brush with celebrity.

During the time I was playing lead trumpet for the Statesmen at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, there was a golf tournament that the wanted the Statesmen to play for during an opening night celebration. Arnold Palmer was the MC of the event. We were there again to play at a luncheon, when Arnold came up to me and asked me if I could get the trumpet section together to play the opening to Maynard's arrangement to "The Theme from Rocky" and he would pay us each $50 to play the opening (in 1979 $50 was good money). I said no problem, and were would we meet. Arnold told me in front of his manager's motor home.

We met soon in front of the manager's motor home and Arnold greeted us at the door and told us to come in. There on a sofa was the manager, totally passed out from the excesses of the prior evening. Arnold the cued us and said, "Play that opening". We did, at full volume. The manager did not even flinch. I was not a physician at that time but I said, " I pronounce the manager as dead". Arnold payed us on the spot and we moved on to our regularly scheduled program.

@Rapier232 said in Professional musicians on this board question:

Sorry Doc. You are a Doctor, who plays trumpet. You are not a trumpeter that plays doctor.

No I am a trumpeter that IS a doctor. Trumpeter, Doctor... Both are non-mutually exclusive professions, that is the exact same context that includes Eddie Henderson.

@Rapier232 said in Professional musicians on this board question:

Sorry Doc.,, You are not a trumpeter that plays doctor.

You sir have not seen me when dating my girlfriends from the past (prior to getting my MD)!