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@flugelgirl said in Trombone Help:

@neal085 true enough. Entry level Yamaha AD line is made in China. Conn-Selmer Prelude line are also made in China. King seem to fare a bit better, though, and are made in the Eastlake factory. Jupiter are made in Taiwan, but intermediate and pro models are very nicely made and leagues above the entry level.

That's great info - thank you! Think we're going to go with the King this time around.

@neal085 said in Some Encouraging Voting News:
,,,I feel like I could run on a platform of making the trumpet our official national instrument, making it illegal to play viola in public, and maybe build National Mouthpiece Safari Parks.

These items definitely get my vote!

@GeorgeB said in Just Another "New" Discovery:

@Dr-GO
I'd get a kick out of anything Botti plays. He is marvelous and just seems to make it look so easy.

He is one of the best, accuracy and control of pitch he is a master at doing this. He really knows how to connect with an audience as well. I have seen him live and in person. Gave him one of the songs I wrote, "Midnight in Tuscany" which he graciously accepted but I have not heard it recorded yet.

Just been crazy busy is my excuse for another prolonged absence. I know my wisdom has been missed;)

AJ

@Dr-GO said in Longest Layoff:

@GeorgeB said in Longest Layoff:

@Dr-GO
Thanks.
It's been 8 years, Doc, but you know, I never really got over it and probably never will. She was something else.

I truly understand. My wife is a cancer survivor. I remember those emotional days of surgery, radiation, chemo. I was there EVERY day to be by her side. She had an aggressive form of HER2+ breast cancer... AND A GREAT ONCOLOGIST. She is now 8 years out from therapy and remains cancer free.

So happy to hear your wife is cancer free, Doc. I can well relate to the emotional experience you went through. My wife had pancreatic cancer and survived for two years after surgery ( WHIPPLE ), and she lived her life as normal as possible. But there were so many side effect after the surgery that times were often hard. I put my own life on hold to be at her side and, as my family doctor once said, I became her personal physician.

@Dr-GO said in We Lost One of the Good Guys:
Actually, there have been too many of the good ones leaving us recently. Wallace Roney, Claudio Roditi included.

And it will continue, Dr-GO. We're not getting any younger.

@grune

Also Discog site
https://www.discogs.com/Al-Hirt-Honey-In-The-Horn/release/1336377

Marching through Red Square. First western military unit to do so.

Playing at D-Day anniversary at Normandy with Walter Cronkite and Pres. Reagan.