@ssmith1226 Hot! A nice, tight ensemble. The piano player ain't too bad, either. I like his Mannix theme every bit as much as Mission Impossible.
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RE: Mission Impossible (Literally)
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RE: Klezmer Music
Although many of my relatives, friends and acquaintances love Klezmer and presume I do, too, I politely tell them that there are a few among us for whom it's just not our bowl of borscht.
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RE: Is Air Needed To Play The Trumpet
I found this on TromboneChat.com. It's good information for all brass players.
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RE: Difference between trumpet and cornet
I think we can all agree that the difference between trumpet and cornet is............................................ the spelling!
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RE: Having to play in too many sharps?
My wife once worked for a Canadian company whose motto was "QED". When she asked, the answer was "Quite Easily Done".
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RE: Artist on BOARD
@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:
@BigDub
At first glance I could have sworn I was looking at a photograph.My reaction exactly.
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RE: Mouthpiece issue
I think if Walter.SK would move the mouthpiece to the side of his head, he could play by ear!
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RE: Third valve
@trumpetb "...no trumpet really needs the third slide...". Uhhhhh... you might want to rephrase this.
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RE: Need help finding Blues recordings
Thanks for the suggestions. Alan Jackson has a great sense of humor, and the Bessie Smith collection is a good one.
"I Want To Be Your Mechanic" is about a guy inspecting a woman's car, looking up under her hood and having the right tool for the job, among other things.
"Beef, Potatoes, And Beer" is a man bringing home to his woman the essential ingredients for a party. Think about it.
There is another one I thought of that I haven't found, either: "Why Can't I Have The Blues?", a wry, humorous song about an extremely successful guy who has the means to have everything he could ever want and then some, lamenting that he can't seem to acquire the Blues.
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RE: Artist on BOARD
Yes, there are many variations on abstract painting which succeed as art and not as garbage, but like any artistic endeavor, there is a whole range of competence and lack thereof. One would not look at abstraction, however slight, and declare it to be photographic, but to be offended at such a compliment reveals a lack of character and ability IMO. A lot of art consists of sycophants stroking fragile egos over what, from any rational perspective, is crap, not art.
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RE: Lip Buzzing-Bad
@barliman2001 What's the harm in continuing a discussion in which there is no apparent hostility? Nuanced viewpoints as expressed in this thread provide additional ways of understanding the concepts we examine in our conversation. Besides, repetition is no obstacle to learning.
Imagine hearing a tune, any tune, played by any number of musicians and saying: "All right, I've heard it enough times; I don't need to hear it again." Shouldn't we have the option of hearing the tune repeated, whether by the same or by additional musicians? And have you not, upon hearing this tune again, sometimes discovered something that you had not previously noticed? Can this not be applied to the subject at hand?
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RE: The difference in timbre caused by using additional valves
I hear timbre and intonation changes with different valve combinations, but the timbre changes aren't enough to sound like a different horn. I just write the phenomenon off to "nature of the beast".
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RE: A Nice Biography
Here's a good discography: https://www.discogs.com/artist/254955-Alan-Rubin?limit=500&page=1
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RE: Need help finding Blues recordings
@SSmith1226 Thanks, Steve.
"Beef, Potatoes, And Beer" is similar to "All That Meat And No Potatoes" in the sense that it's allegorical, but it refers to the anatomy of a member of the XY chromosome group instead of members of the XX group.
"Why Can't I Have The Blues?" is very similar to "Can't Play The Blues No More", but the voice is distinctly Caucasian, and I think a reference to that characteristic may be in the lyrics as well. I'd post the most memorable lyrics, except that I'm concerned that, while they're not "X" Rated, they are "PG", and I don't want the appearance of impropriety on TrumpetBoards (or anywhere else, for that matter).
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RE: How to Use Breath Support to Fatten Your Sound and Fix Intonation
@ssmith1226 "Without exception, my current colleagues of my age range, who are comeback players had a similar experience of lack of exposure to these concepts in their earlier phase of playing."
I'll add my exception to GeorgeB's. Every year on day one of junior high school/7-9th grade band, the director explained the concept/practice of filling the lungs from the bottom and using abdominal pressure to expel air along with practicing proper posture. He said this habit would provide adequate healthy oxygen to the body, regardless of one's activity or rest. In high school/grades 10-12, when the director heard a weak sound, he reminded the player to practice breath support. My trumpet teacher also mentioned breath support and posture as fundamental to proper playing.
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RE: I've about given up on figuring out my King 2055t age
@damon-mcqueary I don't know about the "5" prefix, but there's this:
https://www.trumpet-history.com/Early King Models.pdf
Here's a detail:
Also, there's no harm in contacting The H. N. White Company, LLC at https://www.hnwhite.com/ and Conn-Selmer http://www.selmer.com/en-us/instruments/band-instruments/trumpets/2055t .