Posts made by Kehaulani

When was the last time you, or anybody else, looked at your valves when you played?

@Voltrane said in Trumpet players (40) needed in Paris:

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(how is it possible if they are scattered along the avenue?

You obviously haven't heard some of these French Fanfare bands.

@GeorgeB said in Finally, I amd playing a Conn Trumpet again:. Today I'm going to try adding weight to the valve block to see if I like the sound. My understanding is it will give the horn a darker sound.

Unless you have quality playback equipment, I would consider having some other listeners give you feedback on what kind of sound is actually being produced. The placebo effect can be significant.

@administrator said in Olds Super Star:

What is a "super star?" I have never heard of this.

Isn't it a Bad Company song?

@moshe

Is that so? Why? Are you immobile; wheelchair bound? What is there that prevents you from playing?

@N1684T said in Finally, I amd playing a Conn Trumpet again:

Well George, if you can't find a King Cleveland, i guess that Conn will do.

Yes. Conn-template that!

I played a gig a few years ago with a featured guest - friend of mine and a great player - and he had a Vintage One and found it after a horn search and loved it. It was like he had finally found what he had been looking for.

tj, I want to help (if I can) but I just don't find a question in your post. What is it you would like us to comment on?

@N1684T said in A little humour:

Certainly attitudes got worse after they became federalized.

When was the Transportation Security Administration not federal?

@oldpete said in Is this the World's Brightest Trumpet?:

@Kehaulani I've played one of those!

Believe it, or not, I paid a whole one dollar for it.

Funny side story - I bought it to throw when I got frustrated when practicing. I eventually tried to bend the bell up like Dizzy's horn, but I put a crease with a hole in the bell where the bell was supposed to go up. No longer playable . . . but still throwable.

The brightest horn I ever played was a Pan American peashooter, back in the day.

I don't know what this has with "Humor", but since we're on the subject of TSA - in my travels, I've been met with both horrible conditions and people, and easy ones. To me, it generally had to do with location. I.e., TSA in New York as abdominal and rude while TSA in Honolulu was fine.

My GF before I returned from Germany is Russian. Yes, the video and above comments are true.

This cooks. Some of you might enjoy. Andrea Motis et al in Bobby Timmon's "Moanin".

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Well . . he did leave out the nanny goat vibrato on this version.

I scrunched my chops getting out of bed this morning. Came right back to me.

O.K. - -

A hip replacement? Too much Kenny G or Andre Rieu?

@Dr-GO said in Sleep Faster:

I guess I just use common English.

You know, I also wonder about when we sleep. Now, the statement was more to give a philosophy of when to sleep rather than a precise, scientific analysis, but my grandmother-in-law used to say, "One hour of sleep before midnight is like two hours of sleep after midnight".

I've always (since tween-age) been a night owl and as a practicing musician, have had my fair share of work hours from 09:00-01:00 pm, meaning that I would usually get home later than that. I usually slept, then, until around 11:00 am or so. I wonder how this philosophy applies?