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@Dirk020 OK, now THAT's red rot.

Present. Although I miss the UI/UX of Trumpet Master. I just liked the layout, organization, user interface, and general "look and feel" of TM. Trumpet Herald is a "dog's breakfast" of a site layout, even if it does have a lot of good content.

LOL. OK, so here's the rest of the story..... I show up at the one and only rehearsal and after the first two pieces, the conductor says: "These next few pieces have some of the melody in the flugelhorn part. We really need that. Third cornets, can you find the flugel part and cover it?"

So I (the substitute Eb player) stick up my hand and say: "I brought my flugel, if you want me to try it." "Great. Do it.", he says.

So, for the next few days, I'm running about half of the pieces on Eb and half on flugel. We get to the gig this morning and he says: "Oh, the regular flugel guy is here today. I need you to do everything on Eb." So, I wind up sight reading about 4 pieces on Eb, an instrument where I'm not really fluent. (Well, I guess it wasn't pure sight reading, since I had played the pieces, just not the Eb part.) But we survived.

The thing I did find helpful was to use a lot of abdominal support, but not over blow.

Don't buy any vintage horn if you are a beginner. (Unless an experienced player tells you it is OK.) Leave the antiques to people who have dealt with them for a long time. Get a nice, slightly-used, fairly new, student model Yamaha or Jupiter. I know that isn't very cool, but it will serve you better.
Also, you won't need the first slide saddle or trigger for a long time.

...flugelgirl too. Need more ladies. Too much testosterone on trumpet sites sometimes....

In answer to the stated question, I can state with high confidence that I am extremely limited on a 3-valve piccolo, or a 4-valve piccolo, or anything higher than an Eb. And the Eb is iffy.

1. Fill the slide/leadpipe with ice water.
2. Let it sit for about 10 minutes.
3. Pour out the ice water and heat the outer part of the slide with a hair dryer. (You want the inner part to shrink and the outer part to expand.)
4. Just keep wiggling and flexing the slide until it moves.

BTW, Monster Oil makes a really good slide lube that seems to stay flexible in storage for a long time. I have horns that stay in storage for a year or two, and the slides always move freely after storage when I use the Monster Oil slide lube.

Very old buildings have been damaged, repaired, modified, and re-built many times in most cases. Some of the windows and the spire were replaced by Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century based on conjectures about the design of an earlier spire, but le-Duc's spire was probably much taller than the original. Disasters like this are certainly traumatic events for many, but they also present opportunities to preserve original structures, eliminate badly-done modifications that have crept in over time, and add new statements about our own age. Buildings like this are not static. They evolve over time. The challenge is not to stop the evolution, but to guide it intelligently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Viollet-le-Duc

Not completely sure how I feel about this, but you don't often hear about custom trumpets by Josh Landress on NPR. It was part of "Weekend Edition" on NPR this morning.

https://instrumentofhope.org/

https://www.kqed.org/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday

Well, after William the Conqueror invaded England, a whole bunch of British noblemen were actually of French heritage. Many of them didn't even speak English. Henry IV was the first English King to actually speak the English language with native fluency. There are a whole lot of British people with French names. Would you prefer that Capt. Picard sound like this guy?.....

@Tobylou8

M. C. Escher's trumpet.

Finally. An honest ad.

Yeah, one of my other bands practices outdoors in a church parking lot. Nobody has died, yet.

Bach Mercedes currently on eBay. "It was owned by William "Dutch" Walters who was a member of the Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey Band around 1918 before they split, and Tommy created his own band. Dutch & the Dorsey brothers were childhood friends." Only $450. Just a little more solder, electrical tape, and JB Weld, and it would be perfect.

Go to Costco and ask about "office glasses." That's what has worked best for me. They are "blended bifocals" with an enlarged middle-distance region. I can see the conductor OK and also read the sheet music well. I also sometimes use them in the office when working on the computer. And, since it's Costco, they aren't too expensive.