@l-a-horn said in Fun hooter for "those" gigs...:
You can't use it in an orchestra, wind band or big band because you're not correctly playing it. The drunken vulture means that it should be played while toasted. It'll sound remarkable!
One can only imagine the remarks!
@Dr-GO I thought of including Herb Alpert and especially Chris Botti because of his past Bebop chops in the past, but both these guys made it big in Pop, rather than Jazz, so I didn't include their names in my post.
Perhaps Roy Hargrove is trading fours with Gabriel these days.
Uhhhhh...... My piggy bank is just a little short of $60,000 right now, so I'm afraid I'll have to pass on this one. Maybe next time.
@barliman2001 Other than the color, the Thomann looks exactly like a Dillon. I think it's from the same Chinese manufacturer. When I travel, my Dillon case fits inside my carry-on luggage, along with a small practice mute, my laptop, and miscellaneous other things. The combination is not light, thanks to the laptop, but it is compact.
The only thing smaller than a pocket trumpet is a hose trumpet, but intonation suffers, you have no valves to practice with, and no matter how much the hose is cleaned, mold seems to love the environment inside.
@georgeb Speaking of Uan Rasey: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711107/ . Two of his that come readily to my memory are "Love Theme" from Chinatown and "Gotta Dance" from Singin' in the Rain.
Using "between" instead of "among". Example: "I had to choose between the three of them." 
I see an oddball woodwind instrument with no taper after the mouthpiece. Haven't found anything quite like it in my search.
@administrator said in Louis Armstrongās Trumpet:
It's beautiful -- but I wonder if it would ever get played, or sit around gathering dust like many collector cars.
It'd be a shame to not play it. IMO you'd be obligated to do it justice by playing it as it was meant to be played and by playing it as it was played and by exploring its characteristics.
@trumpetb Matching mouthpiece to sound concept is a part of the process of creating different timbres, too. Of course, the instrument has to agree with your choice, or what comes out the bell will be disappointing and troublesome.
@Pinstriper Exceptional. Thank you! I hadn't listened to Take Five in a little while, and this time around I heard a similarity between Dave Brubeck's solo and McCoy Tyner's treatment of John Coltrane's Equinox.
While I'm making comparisons, There is no alto sax player I'd rather listen to than Paul Desmond and no tenor sax player I'd rather hear than John Coltrane. Here's Equinox for reference:
Big deal. I watched Tony Montana.
But seriously, I did see Dave Brubeck and Sons on tour in the early-to-mid 1980s. I hadn't expected them to be as good as they were without Paul Desmond. A very pleasant surprise.
@Dr-GO said in Louis Armstrongās Trumpet:
I believe there is a video of Sir Paul McCartney playing The Saints Go Marching In using this horn.
Hearing protection strongly advised!
I'm not familiar with that model, but I did find this, FWIW: https://contemporacorner.com/cornets/regent-cornets/
@SSmith1226 Thanks for mentioning John Harner; I had forgotten his association with Kenton '76.
@BigDub said in A little humour:
@J-Jericho said in A little humour:
@BigDub Actually it is Sol, not So... from Solfege. https://www.musicnotes.com/now/tips/solfege-what-is-it-and-how-is-it-used/
Oh, say it isn't so. All my life it's been so.
And yet, I knew about solfege, too. I guess I was going by the sound of music version. And is "sol" a needle pulling thread, I ask?
Here's something that should put this in perspective:
To my ear most contemporary music is either a mind-numbing repetitive mantra of a standard rhythm and a prescribed minimum number of the same notes in the same prescribed key, always and exclusively sung by young males whose high voices have not changed into manhood or a Scrabble of notes sung in an endless, random journey to nowhere by a female with almost no overtones in the timbre of her coarse, lifeless voice. It baffles me that there seems to be an endless market for this crap.
By request - Here is a trumpet held and fingered by Kirk Douglas, who portrayed the character Rick Martin in the movie Young Man With A Horn:
warnerarchive via YouTube.com
It looks like a Besson Brevete Kanstul to me. It had the forward-facing second valve slide with two button pulls, typical bell braces that can be associated with the style commonly seen on Bachs, and a single brace on the tuning slide, plus the forward-facing third valve slide stop. Those more knowledgeable than I am about Besson - please feel free to comment.
The soundtrack was played by Harry James. I don't know which brand/model he played at the time. I'd guess Selmer Paris Balanced Action, but it's just a guess.
I, too had been gone for ten days, due to internet access difficulties, and this banned thing puzzles me.
