@trumpetlearner
The one you show in the listing has what is known as a first valve slide trigger for moving the slide in and out. But a lot of early vintage horns ( my 1952 Selmer Paris, as an example ) didn't have first slide finger saddles or triggers.
Best posts made by GeorgeB
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RE: King Silver Flair - Buying Advice
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RE: Complete Beginner
@trumpetlearner
The lips just need to vibrate and this happens when you blow properly into the mouthpiece and through the trumpet. Say mmm, place lips on mouthpiece , and say T with the tongue as you blow . -
RE: Artist on BOARD
I'd love to have a coffee with you two and listen to the banter between you. It would be a riot...
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RE: Cataract Surgery
@ssmith1226
Hi, Steve, I fully intend to listen to her. She was particularly happy with the surgery and though she said a week to ten days, but she did add she felt a week would be fine if I did exactly what you suggested in taking things slow and easy. Look, I am two months away from turning 87 and I hope to be playing the trumpet when I am 100 so I am not a man who takes foolish chances. Thanks so much for your expert input, Steve. And thank you, too, Jericho
And, BTW, the eye is coming along just great with no pain and no discomfort.
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RE: King Silver Flair - Buying Advice
@trumpetlearner
That certainly explains a lot. But a word of advice: a good teacher would have you learning to play well on that staff rather than above it. I play first trumpet in one of the top community bands in Nova Scotia and I have never had to play anything higher than a B ( 2 spaces ) above the staff.One of things I get a lot of compliments on is my warm tone.
In other words, I would concentrate on developing a good playing style on the staff. Unless you intend to be a professional lead or jazz player, wearing your chops out on high notes really isn't necessary... especially at this stage of your learning.
Every morning I spend a little under an hour doing technical stuff and every day I play a 2 octave C scale . I often add D or an E to the high C just for kicks. But that's as high as I go and that will cover anything I have to play in the band. For my afternoon practice ( again, every day ) I play about a dozen or so ballads.
Good luck and be careful. Screaming above the staff can injure your chops.
Just my 2 cents, my friend.
George
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RE: Cataract Surgery
Thanks for the reply. The surgeons seem to vary in their instructions and I do believe that has a lot to do about how well the surgery went. BTW, I own a P.E.T.E. that I do a daily exercise with the chops. The Doc had no problem with that.
So I stopped playing on Wednesday and after 7 days I will start up in a very gentle soft and easy manner, and sticking to the staff. After that I'll see how things are going and act accordingly.Thanks everyone for your excellent help and advice.
George
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RE: keeping your first Trumpet
Yes, Doc, I realize I am fortunate to have a reasonably good memory at my age. In fact, when I started playing again after 50 years I was surprised at how many of the valve fingerings I remembered. Some eluded me but after a few weeks of playing all the major scales I pretty much had them down pat. I still do those scales on a regular basis, along with chromatic scales just to keep the old brain nimble.
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RE: Range Improvement
@Dr-Mark said in Range Improvement:
@Dr-GO said in Range Improvement:
In this case, Dr. Mark.... You need more practice!
You sure got that right. Heck, I was with her just last night and she leaned over and said, "kiss me where it stinks" so I took her to Tampa. Man was she pissed. I'm still trying to figure out what I did wrong!
You two doctors are a riot.
In reading JorgePD's post his comeback after 40 years and not being able to play an A above the staff after a year, I realized I must have done the right thing in my comeback after 50 years.
What I did was learn to play the trumpet all over again, using the trumpet tutorial book my teacher recommended back in 1953: The Everette James Trumpet/Cornet Tutorial. Yep, Everette is Harry's dad. The book is a little tattered today but it did the job for me back then and did the job for me again in 2016. I don't recall exactly how long it took me to get to a daily high C but I do know it wasn't much more than 3 months. The tutorial triggered the memories of what I had learned about technique, style and the rest of that stuff, and all the exercises and etudes, got me on the right track. I started my comeback in March of 2016 and was playing with the local Seniors Horizons band by September when they started their Fall/ winter term. The second year back I took a few lessons with a local teacher who helped me find the correct mouthpiece because that was my biggest problem. I was probably lucky in getting started again on my own, but there did come that time when professional help was needed. So I am glad to hear that JorgePD got that pro help he needed.
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RE: playing with a full lower de nture
Well after a visit with my dentist I discovered that I will not be reduced to playing with a full lower denture. She can save the two existing teeth, replace the crown I lost and I'll end up with a new partial to give me a full set of teeth to play with.\ in my lower jaw. Hip, Hip, Hooray !!!
Turns out my dentist is also a musician and she understood my problems immediately.
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RE: King Silver Flair - Buying Advice
If the valves are worn it can affect the compression, making the horn harder to play. Open the 1st and 3rd valve slides a bit, then close them and depress the first and third keys, If you hear a solid popping sound, the compression is good and you can use either a light or medium grade ( Hetman or Berp ) #1 or #2 oil. But if the pop is weak a thick #3 grade oil should fill the gap between the valve and the piston wall and the playing should be easier and you should hear more of a pop.
The thicker oil lasts longer between oiling.George
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RE: Lifetime quest finally paying off!
@Dr-GO
Thanks, Doc. Rest assured the respect is mutual. Like Dr. Mark said, we're all a little testy due this quarantine business. Right now I just rather play some music and see what my critic ( ME ) has to say. Trouble with ME is he never seems to be satisfied with my playing... -
RE: Artist on BOARD
But be careful not to drink too much. I once did a water color after consuming several ounces of Jack Daniels and well...what a royal mess....
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RE: playing with a full lower de nture
Those are two good reasons for any problems you may be having, sir.
Right now I am trying to play on only 2 front teeth when my embouchure was used to much more than that, so I am now dealing with a cranky embouchure. Once I have the dental work done at least I will be playing with a new partial that hooks on to exixting teeth to keep it in place, and I am already used to that. But another change for the embouchure. Oh, well it will all work out.
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RE: Differences between grades of instruments
My first horn was something from a pawnshop and just had Varsity etched on the bell. I bought in 1953 for $40, a fortune to me who was working part time after school delivering prescriptions on my bike for a local drug store making $12 a week.
I was taking lessons at The Maritime Conservatory Of Music. My teacher, Professor Ifan Williams, who also happened to be the music director at the conservatory, was not pleased with the Varsity and urged me to buy something better as soon as possible.
Well I used the Varsity but dropped the Conservatory for lessons with a top notch professional trumpet player because I didn't seem to be getting anywhere. The pro player's name was Eddie Richards and he was one of those guys who did it all, from dixieland to Haydn and played for all the top local orchestras, as well as the Halifax Symphony Orchestra, I started to advance quickly under his tutelage after he arranged for me to buy a nearly new gold plated Conn Constellation 28B on time for $5 a week. The Conn made all the difference in the world. To me, at the time, it was like magic.I stupidly sold the Conn when I quit playing in 1965, but I kept the Varsity for sentimental reasons. I still have it and play it once in awhile as a reminder of how hard it was to play as a student. I have no idea of the age of the Varsity.
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RE: Buy your horns here, not there!
Definitely Austin Custom Brass. I've bought 5 horns from Trent and Company in the past three years: 2 new and 3 used. I live a long way from them so trust was an important consideration for me and they give that to me in spades.
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RE: Artist on BOARD
@bigdub
Great, Wayne. I can almost hear the waves crashing against the rocks. Man, you are getting better and better with each new painting.