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RE: YouTube Suggestion
@georgeb Thank you for your kind words. I've seen a couple of Morrison's instructive videos; I'll have to check out the rest.
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RE: Trumpet Board Remote Performance
@SSmith1226 said in Trumpet Board Remote Performance:
Happy Halloween!
I see you've been chugging Absinthe again, Steve.
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RE: Purchased Olds Super.. cracked bell rim, no ring when flicked
Straightening the bell, followed by cleaning and filling the crack presents a number of difficulties that make the job risky. You might end up with a trumpet that plays worse as a result after the wasted effort. I wonder what caused the crack in the first place. The tone ring should do a great job of keeping things together indefinitely.
Unless you have a specific musical part the requires you to flick the bell of your trumpet, don't worry about it. As Trumpetsplus (who should indeed know) mentioned, some bells ring, and some bells don't; I don't believe it's an indication of any aspect of playability.
It looks like a good horn. What I can see of the valves looks pretty good. Enjoy your new trumpet, and dismiss any concerns about it.
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RE: How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?
Maybe this will do better:
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RE: Vintage Horn Eye Candy
@Dr-GO said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:
@J-Jericho said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:
@grune said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:
@Dr-GO said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:
@Kehaulani said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:
VINTAGE HORN EYE CANDY?
I don't see it.
IF you look real close, you should see a bugle.
I thought the purpose of the picture is to eye Candy. That is her name, right?
Eye?... don't know for sure.
Perhaps you're having a hard time visualizing.
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RE: I Can’t Get Started
Besides the enjoyment of hearing these, there's something to be learned from each one.
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RE: Trumpet Board Remote Performance
Good job, Steve! The amount of work it took shows in the finished product. I imagine playing the piccolo trumpet and the digideroo each require a slightly different technique.
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RE: How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?
@administrator Beats me. Could be both.
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RE: First Horns
The brand of my first trumpet is lost to my memory. I think it had "American" in the name, but I'm not sure. It most likely came from the Montgomery Ward catalog as the "Good" of a "Good, Better, Best" choice. The rest I recall clearly.
It was chrome plated. Can't get shinier than that, can you? Nor hotter to the touch when playing outside in the sun, like at outdoor concerts and in parades. The manufacturer plated the slides without compensating for the thickness of the chrome, so they all were an interference fit. Nice. Do you know how much time and effort is involved in sandpapering hard chrome off the slides? I do. The bottom-sprung valves, on the other hand, weren't burdened by any plating whatsoever, so they did not resist wear, even with Holton valve oil. Remember the glass eye dropper bottles and the smell?
The case was just big enough to hold the trumpet, mouthpiece, a bottle of valve oil, and a cloth to wipe the horn down. I made a larger case to hold mutes and music, along with the trumpet. I lined it with green velvet, and I trimmed pieces from an old bed sheet to cover the outside, painting it tan, the same color as the original case. I did get compliments on it (not bad craftsmanship for a 13-year-old boy, if I do say so myself). There was just a sli-i-i-i-ight catch. I couldn't find wood thinner than 1/2 inch plywood to make the case out of. Lightweight it was not!
As difficult as it was to remove the plating from the slides so that they could actually slide, the chrome on the valve block wasted no time in starting to wear off, so I bought a leather protector to stop the wear. I later discovered that the leather protector absorbed and concentrated moisture and salt from perspiration from my hand to voraciously pit the metal underneath.
Better times were ahead a little over a year later, when I traded the remains of my first trumpet for a Selmer Signet Special cornet, an intermediate-level horn that served me well for the next three years and enabled me to play in tune without having to lip almost every note into pitch, like I had been doing. What a pleasure that was! Traded that in on my first Bach Stradivarius trumpet, but I'm getting away from the subject of this thread, am I not?
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RE: Need some information on this item.
Instructions are on the plaque: "Do not touch."
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RE: A little humour
@SSmith1226 A friend of mine in college used to laugh his ass off (pun intended) listening to this.
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RE: Differences between Olds models
@administrator said in Differences between Olds models:
I am interested in knowing the differences between Olds models. I know there are several. If anybody on here is an expert please advise. Here are the models I can think of off the top of my head:
Olds Ambassador
Olds Mendez
Olds Studio
Olds Super
Olds Superstar "Ultrasonic"
Olds Recording
Olds Super RecordingHere's an updated version of a post I made about a year ago:
Here are my estimations (not pontifications) of Olds trumpets:
Ambassador - Some are competent; many more are crappy.
Pinto - An odd, ultimately unsuccessful experiment in unconventional design.
Special - Underrated; slightly bright sound. Because of its price bracket and pre-tritone marketing when new, it was presumed to be one step up from a basic trumpet. In reality this was a mighty big step.
Studio - A magic trumpet for some, it produces a unique lyrical sound. If your sound is bright, it will project brightness; if your sound is dark, it will project darkness. As with the Special, players have been discovering its virtues for several years now, driving prices up. The later nickel-silver plated Studio is acknowledged to have been change for the sake of change. Not considered an improvement. Quite the opposite, although some players are happy with theirs.
Super - Most owners will not sell theirs for any amount of money, period. A good, generic sound. Unfortunately, some have serious intonation problems.
Recording - A legendary trumpet for many. An odd ergonomic setup that works well for some players. Flexible and versatile; there are few other trumpets that play better, but they do exist.
Opera - If you can play a cavernous mouthpiece, you will overcome its bright timbre and produce an awesome, gorgeous, incomparable sound.
Mendez - Speaking of bright-sounding trumpets, the Mendez also has a unique timbre, putting it in the same category as the Olds Studio, Olds Opera, and Conn Connstellation in the sense that these four horns have a sound specific to each model; they do not necessarily sound like one another. FWIW - the Mendez and the Connstellation were both manufactured in long cornet versions, too, which have the appearance of their trumpet counterparts and have a distinct, cornet sound.
Super Recording - The Holy Grail for aficionados with a willingness to spend the money it takes to acquire one. YMMV.
Olds deliberately designed each instrument they manufactured for eye appeal, and there is eye candy to be found in their entire lineup. The subtle benefit of this is that you want to take it out of the case often, which leads to more practice, which leads, hopefully, to more competence.
Also, when Sonic is used in conjunction with an Olds model, it refers to the method of bell production, not any specific sound or playing characteristic, although it could be argued that marketing at the time was designed to mislead potential buyers into thinking that it did.
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RE: Artist on BOARD
@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:
The trick to photography is to pick good subject matter and click, am I right?
In photography framing the image in a way that transcends the subject into an image that evokes an emotional and/or cerebral response makes the difference between a photo/snapshot and something more. Choice of lighting, juxtaposition, and color or grayscale balance/contrast contribute to the impact of the image as well.
In the past, when photographers developed film instead of using a digital format, it was fairly routine to manipulate parts of or all of the image to suit the goal of the artist, and there were those who continued this process with programs such as PhotoShop, but the most evocative images today involve setting up the shot so that none of this is necessary.