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@Trumpetsplus said in I Think ≠ It Is!:

@Kehaulani All of us are sensitive enough to notice. I have had rank beginners noticing incremental changes in design.

Perhaps I should've said "enhanced".

@barliman2001 said in Fast Tempo and old farts:
I very much doubt that this is an original Sousa recording, especially as it says "Conductor: John Wallace"...

My bad. I don't know how I could've done that. But the performance of Sousa on Barliman's link is about the same as the Marine Band's performance by Col. John R. Bourgeois. I know him and he's pretty meticulous about these things. In any case, these recordings show without a doubt that The Liberty Bell is not a circus march.

Peabody is outstanding, second the motion.

While we're at it, New England Conservatory is no slouch.
Actually, that was my first choice for my Master degree but North Texas made me "an offer I couldn't refuse".

Dr. Go posted the following exercises but they were not so clear. I have redone them for anyone who wants to download them. And, frankly, I need the practice getting back into processes like this. Well, they actually go in this order: Post 2, Post 3, Post 1.

Eugene Blee's Flexibility Exercises (Warm-ups):

Go to an E,N,T doctor?

So, while they might enhance some trumpets, they don't enhance all?

@ROWUK said in Fast Tempo and old farts:

@GeorgeB For things at the limit of what I can play (recently 1st trumpet in the orchestra version of Rimsky-Korsakovs Scheherezade), my standard take is to completely memorize the difficult licks. Once I have freed up my eyes, they do not slow my fingers or tongue down any more!

Kind of chicken or the egg, isn't it? It may be completely true that not reading the music gives one a freedom and he plays even better. OTOH, it takes an extra level of preparation to be able to play something like that from memory, and that extra hard work might be the reason for better playing, which has to do with putting the icing on the cake, and is unrelated to memorization.

@BigDub said in List of Undergraduate Schools with Well-known Trumpet Programs:

Peabody is in Baltimore, Md. it is the music school part of Johns Hopkins University.

Could swear, I just said that.

Wouldn't a "vertical smile" put a toothy crease right in the middle of your face?

Thanks, flugelgirl.

Also: https://youtu.be/zeoT66v4EHg?t=5

@tjcombo
Thank you, Sir. You are a Mensch.

Good example. I used the antics from Maynard as the gospel on how you should do it. Not very productive in the long run.

I did get Maynard's autograph though, after a concert - on the back of a girlfriend's photo, who had just dumped me. Maynard thought it was pretty funny. That and that I was loaded. Ah, youth.

@dale-proctor said in Flattened mouthpieces:

a round, tapered punch
And if you don't have a round, tapered punch, any repair tech can fix it in a moment, probably, at minimum cost and probably while you wait. Only takes a moment.

I was meanly joking. The pronunciation by the American Buescher family, is "Bischer".

I interpret "Leadpipe Buzzing" to mean buzzing directly on the leadpipe, not the mouthpiece.

I believe that Laurie Frink in her Integrated Warmup uses bent notes.

That warm-up, BTW, is a concise group of exercises from Herbert L. Clarke, James Stamp, Vincent Cichowiicz, Bai Lin, and Camine Caruso.

@Trumpetsplus said in How To Play Trumpet With Less Tension:

My heart sinks when I see students waving around the photos of successful trumpet player's faces and wanting to look like them.

In Philip Farkas' book, The Art of French Horn Playing, he's got a number of photos of top horn players' embouchures. The first thing one is hit with is that no two embouchures are exactly the same.