Posts made by J. Jericho

@ladonna2 Welcome! Many members of TrumpetBoards are comeback players, so you'll fit right in.

It looks like a solution to a problem that needed to be addressed by the techniques and skills of the player, not by adding a questionable, possibly detrimental, and undoubtedly expensive appendage to a trumpet that plays superbly without such modification.

Complete with tuning slide plunger/adjuster?

Someone went to no small expense for this one. Here's the eBay listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/404376116253?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l1120&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=453f16d23d91450da2244f62c1e2cf80&bu=42999274517&ut=RU&exe=0&ext=0&osub=-1~1&crd=20230712043335&segname=11021

Not as much continuity as I expected, but interesting, nevertheless:
Youtube Video

@bobmiller1969 Interesting designs. Your approach to creating these mutes is admirable. Please let us know when your videos become available. BTW - what material(s) do you use to make them? Bamboo?

Roboconductor - a perfect illustration of the saying: "Just because you can doesn't mean that you should."

Nothing special trumpetwise here, either.

Most memorable Independence Day: My wife and I were driving back from some really nice fireworks when we got rearended by some drunk who fled the scene and totalled his borrowed Ford Expedition shortly thereafter. My wife sustained neck injuries which I suppose could have been worse had it not been for the headrest.

Damage to our car came to within about $2 of it being totalled, but a great repair shop restored the damage perfectly. Unfortunately, that car got totalled at a later date in a trumpet-related incident, a story for another time.

We were subpoenaed to appear at the miscreant's trial as witnesses for the prosecution. Not surprisingly, he did not show up, as he had fled back to Mexico, presumably to take advantage of the availability of tequila there and likely harm more people in the process.

I would think that a lack of concentricity/alignment would be the cause of this phenomenon. I recall occasionally seeing mouthpieces that had a very slight ridge in the throat area where it appeared that the cup and the backbore were not in perfect alignment. One could speculate that this occurs more often in mass produced mouthpieces than in custom/limited production ones. In any event, clocking a mouthpiece can help to discover if such a flaw exists in any given mouthpiece.

@ssmith1226 AI Jesus speaks English fluently.

@shifty said in Bots are getting scary:

Hal kills Dave in simulation:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-artificial-intelligence-drone/

Disturbing, but not unexpected.

@kehaulani-0 said in The Beatles Are Back, Sort Of:

What, pray tell, is "deep fake"? Isn't this just digital overdubbing, or embedding, which has been going on for some time and is a recognised and legitimate technique?

Just go to YouTube and type "deep fake" in the search field; you'll find some interesting results.

What'll they (AI creators) think of next? And do we want to find out?

You might get some hints here: https://cderksen.home.xs4all.nl/ConnTrumpet.html . While availability is spotty, two 28B Connstellations sold on eBay within the last month. Also, you could contact https://www.dillonmusic.com/ , https://www.austincustombrass.biz/ , and https://www.brassandwinds.com/ , to name a few sources, and ask them to be on the lookout for what you want. A little patience goes a long way. A lot of patience may be necessary. Good luck!

Hey! How about this? It's just a matter of time before AI video and audio combine in new and exciting ways. When it does, we can enjoy a video of AI Arnold Schwartzenegger using AI Frank Sinatra's voice to sing "Feel Like A Woman", or AI Olivia Newton-John using AI Florence Foster Jenkins' voice to sing "Macho Man". Ah... the possibilities are endless!

It just occurred to me that, although there are a limited amount of Abraham Lincoln sound bites available from which to choose, there's a wealth of JFK voicing available. Perhaps there could be AI JFK singing "Another One Bites The Dust" instead... or even better, with a little more AI development, AI JFK and AI Lincoln singing the song as a duet!