I'm so sad I couldn't catch this live, but darn, it works really well as an on-demand stream.
It's amazing the names that are suddenly available for this kind of light-hearted thing. All my heroes, on one stream!
Edit: I think Arturo is right, no-one apart from Sarah could have gotten all these faces up on one screen simultaneously.
@Kehaulani Surely it adds labor, but it would be considerably quicker than doing extensive engraving, and some makers did that routinely in the old days. Maybe cosmetics was an important competitive edge to have?
Those pictures sort of remind me of reproduction natural trumpets. The old masters (16th and 17th century) often would scrape the brass of the bell and tubing. We got to do this in the International Trumpet Making Workshop using a "knife" with a triangular cross-section. I was pretty nervous about removing too much material!
You end up with a pretty gorgeous finish, click to enlarge the closeups here: http://trompetenmacher.de/en/historical/building-a-copy/
More info about the workshop in the video description:
The important thing to keep in mind is that GPT is basically an advanced autocomplete engine. It takes whatever string you input and essentially generates the most statistically likely continuation.
So given that Microsoft seem to have done a poor job of filtering the Bing chatbot’s outputs, you’ll get some funny results. With that in mind, it’s not at all surprising that if you start talking to it like a therapist, it will start coming up with dramatically depressive outputs. Likewise, if you accuse it of being wrong, it will do what people on the Internet do: defend itself rather than admit to a mistake.
@kehaulani I find I have to compromise on warmups. A method such as what you posted would take me … maybe 45 minutes to go through? It’s hard to estimate without counting out the bars but it’s a long commitment to be sure. After that, it’s doubtful if I’d have any juice left for the gig!
I try to do a structured diagnostic warmup before a long day of rehearsal or a gig, but still I find it hard to commit to more than 20 minutes at most.
That Sinatra clip was way too good. Sinatra at his worst was still better than many artists. Time for something truly atrocious.
I bet the mic was never supposed to be hot...
In case anyone is interested in getting a surface understanding of how these Large Language Models work, I found this article to be quite enlightening:
https://thegradient.pub/othello/
Disclaimer: I have some previous professional exposure to machine learning, so I understand some of the jargon here. Article might not be quite as accessible if you're not already into the statistics and math behind ML. Nonetheless, they make a very approachable thought experiment and manage to implement it in reality. The article shows us some properties of how these models are able to be so eerily good at very diverse topics, from constructing a correct computer program to playing a board game with (mostly) valid moves.
Our experiment provides evidence supporting that these language models are developing world models and relying on the world model to generate sequences.
@bigdub said in Blasphemous takes on classic tunes:
I once saw a bunch of brass players who decided to play while submerged in a city fountain. Only the bells were above the water.
I guess it wasn’t these guys. They do this fountain gig every year on the day they turn the water on for summer.
Speak about blasphemous takes on classic tunes, by the way!
@j-jericho said in Bots are getting scary:
https://futurism.com/newspaper-alarmed-chatgpt-references-article-never-published
Think of each GPT model as a low-resolution JPEG picture of the internet. Just like a jpeg, it’s a lossy encoding. It’s encoding “everything that was ever written on the Internet” into a finitely-sized neural network. It will tend to get broad strokes right but just like when you zoom too far into a very badly compressed photo that you saved off the Internet in 1997, you won’t be able to see what was originally there. If you try to “upscale” it (demand too much detail), the model will oblige but each detail risks being a fiction.
@bigdub That's on the bell tail. It's called a microtuner, or "opera glass" tuner. Turn the screw to tune up or down in small increments.
My mute bag is a ratty old backpack, so I stuff all sorts of things in it:
I find the music nearly never calls for anything else. Derby hat can be emulated by playing into the music stand, and no conductor has ever complained to the section over it.
I would like to replace the bucket with something else that's easier to put on quickly. But I'm not sure I can justify the expense, plus right now we have matching red&white buckets across the section.
The Bubble mute is really better in aluminum, I think. Copper is so heavy it falls out easily. I got it as a gift 18 years ago and somehow still didn't wear it out.
The mini straight is used as a straight, it sounds nearly identical to my larger DW straight. It sits further up the bell but seems to do the same thing. It's also small enough to use on plunger solos, for variety.
@administrator said in You may be jealous....:
Not so short anymore!
And not so trombone, either!
Anyway, that's a very rocking sound! Very cool, thanks for sharing.
It's always fun to see international attention pointed at these instruments. The Euphony "ess-kornett" is particularly well regarded. It is better in tune than the predecessor A&O ones, yet retains the correct tone.
@j-jericho said in Customized Olds Recording Model:
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.
It’s been relisted a dozen times since this thread was posted so apparently most prospective buyers are scared off by either the modification or the $2000 price.
For some closure on this, got the valves fixed (sort of). A second opinion from the replate tech said the diameter was not the problem and a replate would not help. With some lapping, he got it working a lot better but not perfect.
I have put it up for sale at a discounted price on commission at a local shop.
@j-jericho said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
That seems indeed very random. Am I supposed to be seeing something?
@georgeb said in I cannot find a 28b Connstellation anywhere. Is there a way to "create" one?:
I have seen a few in poor condition and the expense of re-furbishing was more than the horn was worth.
In my experience, the expense of re-furbishing is always more than the value of the horn. Both before and after.
@richard-iii said in I cannot find a 28b Connstellation anywhere. Is there a way to "create" one?:
@kehaulani said in I cannot find a 28b Connstellation anywhere. Is there a way to "create" one?:
Interested in a Cornet?
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/109527462399665/?hoisted_items=748387889831393Good grief. That is a ridiculous price for a 28A. I would sell mine for $500.
I don't think $800 is a lot for a playable pro instrument... Even for a cornet, which are less popular today. You would be undercharging grossly at $500. That's up to you, of course, if you were to sell. Nonetheless, I think buyers today are aware that a factory new Bach or Yamaha has a list price of nearly $ 5000. (Of course, dealers sell them below that price all the time.) Used horns have gone up in price correspondingly, at least to some degree.
"Common data formats in Germany".
@tptguy Did you go ahead with this yet?
That's really interesting, to see bright plating on the inside of the valve casing. I would have expected them to use nickel silver for the bottom half of the casing, but if you're right and it's instead plated, I imagine it complicates the manufacture quite a bit.
@jolter said in [Looking for Besson Meha piston (Kanstul
(Thanks for the tip, but right now, I don't have the money to spend on a valve job, much less on a new Meha...)
Today was the day I finally posted posted this fine Meha off to a workshop for valve replating.
I've sort of gotten into a repair hobby myself, lately, but this particular job will be left to a professional. The horn is too nice for me to ruin it with a botched valve job!
Will post with pictures once I get it back.
@barliman2001 said in Moderator absent...:
The whole thing is organized by a cello player under the brand name of Symphonic Holidays, www.dacapo-travel.eu.
What a lovely idea for a business!
I hope you'll have fun, and I hope to go myself one day.
