Posts made by J. Jericho

@Kehaulani said in First Horns:

@J-Jericho said in First Horns:

@Kehaulani said in First Horns:

Jerico - Pan American?

I seriously doubt it. This horn was an irredeemable POSTSO.

So was my Pan American. Bought it for a dollar.

My first trumpet was not as sophisticated as Pan Americans are. I suppose comparable horns are produced today by those fine exemplars of the craft in India.

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.

@Kehaulani said in First Horns:

Jerico - Pan American?

I seriously doubt it. This horn was an irredeemable POSTSO.

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?

SiriusXM has decent choices, and they have subscription promos. You can listen on almost any device, too.

@Kehaulani said in The One:

Yeah, and lose the moustache. It stiffens your upper lip.

Imagine how much better Doc Severinsen could play without his.

Sentencing of Lynn Fogarty has been rescheduled to July 1, 2020.

The soloist was wearing a digital watch. How inauthentic. Blasphemy!

But seriously, that video is just seamless. All superlatives apply.

Listening to the consistent timbres, it really makes one think about where and how nodes and antinodes occur within a wind instrument.

@barliman2001 I hope all goes well for you.

@ROWUK said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

@J-Jericho He is the real thing and a great teacher! I haven't been to Basel where he teaches this year due to issues with my teeth. With luck, late summer or early fall will be my next lesson.

I hope all goes extremely well with you.

@djeffers78 said in Let's Have Some Fun!:

I personally enjoy the natural trumpet selections on this piece. Something just fits better

I definitely enjoy Jean-François Madeuf's playing in

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I'm always moved when I hear this version.

Not much to add. Keep listening to your video and make mental notes (maybe even written ones) about what you hear and what you need to do to clean things up. The important thing to do always is to listen. I don't think you're far from whipping it into shape. With thought and practice, you'll succeed. For inspiration, listen to Jacob Collier. His comments can be helpful, too.