Posts made by Kehaulani

Yes, sprinkled all over the country are wonderful players you'll never hear.

I was on the road once in Tulsa, Oklahoma and our guitarist said we should go out to an airport Holiday Inn lounge and hear this guy Tommy Crook. The guitarist was reading an interview of Chet Atkins and the interviewer asked, "Who does Chet Atkins listen to when you listen to guitar players?" and he said, "Tommy Crook".

So we went and listened to this guy at an airport inn playing a solo act and he played his butt off. We later asked him why he didn't have greater exposure and he said that he hated to travel.

A guy I've never heard of having wider exposure is Aubra Graves (sax). Man this guy is tasty. Here's a link but he has a number of tunes on YouTube.

@ACB So it's a combined parameters with your touch to it. Well, I don't usually lean towards Bach 3Cs but have got to say that this is a hell of a mouthpiece.

@ACB - frankly, based on my experiences with ACB, I thought there might have been a piece of information missing from this, when I first read it.

Did the sax player not get the word about shirts? Guys . . the band gets shirts. That's just the way it is. The band gets shirts!

Paul Anka rant. WARNING: filled with F-bombs. Don't listen if it offends you.

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

Mark Twain was so moved by the eloquent sermon that he was ready to give the $400 he had in his pocket, as soon as the collection plate came around. But the plate was delayed as the preacher droned on interminably. After 20 minutes into the sermon he thought of giving only $40. Another 20 minutes went by. Thoughts of giving dropped to $4. Final, after the another half hour of lengthy delay, the bask was finally pasted at which time Twain took a $5 bill from the plate.

When I was a kid, one of the church ushers was cleaning up after the service and found a penciled-in comment on a church bulletin that said, "Somebody should be paying us to listen to this stuff." They thought it was funny.

The usher gave it to the minister. I laid low.

Maybe this is a play on words, but I wouldn't say that prices are what people are generally willing to pay, but rather what the market will bear. The difference being between the word "willing" and "must".

Oh, fishy, fishy!

I went fishing with my father-in-law and one of his friends, years ago. I looked at the fish flopping around in the boat gasping for air, slowly asphyxiating. Last time I went fishing.

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Must . . resist. . .

There's no shame in having a sense of priorities that are you-specific (illegalities or other bad conduct, notwithstanding). But I ask the question, and I appreciate your candor, but I don't think a mouthpiece chase is going to do you much benefit. If you want more significant enhancement of your playing, you need to practice more and do it more smartly.

Yes. Did white gloves come with it?

Butch, I don't mean this disingenuously, but how much practicing to you do and what do you practice?

Dummied-down. Thank you.

It's my understanding that Bach mpcs. have gotten larger over the years. A 3C from years ago is smaller than today's. Trent Austin (ACB) has a 3C that's his take on a MV mpc. that he got from Arturo. It's smaller than conventional, current mpcs. It's a superb mpc. which you might want to give a try.

You need to check before you order, but I think they have a seven-day return policy.

It's my understanding that a smaller mouthpiece enhances the higher overtones. But that doesn't necessarily change quality of the tone. Back in the 60s, I knew a number of first-call L.A. studio players who used, by today's standards, much smaller mouthpieces, yet they sounded pretty good.

Just as an observation, and not addressing in any other parameters but sound, I think your sound on the 10 3/4 is tinnier

Thank you. As a stroke survivor several times over, regaining trumpet strength has been a major chore. Very discouraging. That vignette helps.

Isn't that supposed to be upside down?