Posts made by Kehaulani

Ah, a literary and multi-lingual scholar, I see.

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

Don't forget behind-the-scenes personnel:

Like the dark-horse wind players John Thomas and Lady Jane.

@ACB said in Gorgeous Hub Van Laar Oiram in gold plate!:

the OIRAM trumpet was designed by the Belgian architect Mario Garzaniti.

Good Belgian name.

I would show the horn to the tech and ask him what he suggests.. His answer might then tell you what your next step would be.

@trumtrumtrum said in WTB Al Cass mouthpiece:

@Kehaulani YES that sounds pretty good! Sent you a PM

No PM. I am at a disadvantage at the moment. My left eye has no peripheral vision, probably 1/4 of normal sight. I'm presently having eye work on my good eye and it's bandaged up so I can't see through it at all. What that means is ir is very difficult to see. Ironically, this additional strain is making it hard to think straight, too. If you want to wait, great. If not, I understand.

If it bothers you, I would take it up with the conductor or band president.

You still forgot the water nymph.

@ROWUK said in Fast Tempo and old farts:
Confidence soars, reading quality goes up!

More power to him. That's great.

@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.

@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.

Original performance by the composer and his band:
Youtube Video

You know, if you're having finger-speed problems on Liberty Bell, your conductor is taking it at way too fast a tempo. There's such a thing as interpretation, but I don't think it rationalizes taking a piece of music totally out of context.

BTW, every time I open another entry in this thread, I can't help seeing Monty Python.

@Kehaulani said in For Martin lovers:

Cool to see that ad. In 1955 Then it all went downhill.

That was tongue-in-cheek.

@Bob-Pixley said in Strad vs Zeno/Neo:

@bobmiller1969 said in Strad vs Zeno/Neo:
Thanks. It’s the optional “Stradivarius Deluxe” factory pattern.

You mean that engraving was an in-house job and not done independently? Wow.