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Try Stork 7P, if you want to get a piccolo mouthpiece. Not expensive and fully functional.

Many old-time marching horns had that "over the shoulder" bell configuration. It was done because bands typically led the parade and marchers behind the band needed to hear the music. I've never seen a modern one, through.

Well, there's always....

I really like the look of this Hamilton, but $300 for a "chronometer tune up" to keep it accurate? Forget it. The Citizen Eco-Drives never need winding, never need batteries, never need cleaning, and never need regulating.

@Dale-Proctor Wright's is good. I have used it for years. In theory, I suppose it removes a few molecules. But I haven't seen any detrimental effects.

What I was sort of hoping for was advice from more experienced Eb players like:

• In the upper portion of the range, try x with the breath support but y with the lips. However, in the lower portion of the range, try the opposite (or whatever).

Or maybe....

• Even Maurice couldn't make an Eterna Eb trumpet sound right. Just bite the bullet and get a really good Eb cornet such as a <insert favorite here>

@flugelgirl

@tptguy Here is how -- I think -- they make "office glasses." They are intended for working in an office where you spend a lot of time on the computer, but also need to read paperwork and look up to see things on the other side of the room. They have worked well for me in terms of being able to read sheet music and also see the conductor, etc.

It took me a long time to get into GOT. I didn't start at the beginning. I came in somewhere in the middle and there were just too many characters and too many sub-plots to make any sense of it. But then I was out sick for a couple of days and started at the beginning with HBO On Demand while I was lying around. I still had to watch some of the episodes more than once, but I finally got into the rhythm of it. Some reviewers thought the season 8 premiere was kind of dull or flat of something. But every episode can't be "The Red Wedding" (The Rains of Castamere) or "The Winds of War." That would be exhausting. The season 8 premiere needed to set the stage for the grand denouement, and did a good job of it, IMO.

@Dr-GO Oh. 4 valves. That explains it.

Thanks flugelgirl and trickg. I'm going with the 10.5C and will make it work. It is really only the notes at middle C and below where I can't get it to sound right. But I will figure something out.

This particular group has been together for 20 years and they do basically the same music for this Memorial Day event every year, so they only have one rehearsal. But I'll survive...

@IrishTrumpeter The significant thing about the 7C is the shape of the rim. The inner lip of the rim is very "sharp" while the outer rim is heavily rounded. Some people think this makes it easier to lip between notes. The cup size is about average or maybe slightly smaller than average. The combination of the rim shape and the cup size might be making it easier for you to hit and hold those notes. The 7C is the standard mouthpiece often given to beginners for the reasons above. Some advanced players continue using it if it works for them. Other advancing players switch to something like the 3C which has a slightly larger cup and a flatter rim. The larger cup helps with tone and the flatter rim helps with endurance. If you want to try a "smaller" mouthpiece, one of the most common ones is the 10.5C. It has a fairly flat rim. Vincent Bach himself said the 10.5C was the perfect mouthpiece for C-trumpet or "anyone with weak lips."

@King_Conng Do you have a simple version of Photoshop, or anything similar, that would copy the image down to 500 x 500 pixels? That should make it uploadable.

The stone vaults have collapsed at the crossing and at various places in the nave and transept. Re-building that is a completely different level of effort than replacing the wood rafters and lead roofing.

I used to have a Getzen Eterna picc. I wouldn't recommend it.

@trumpetlearner When you use the valves in combination, the notes tend to become sharp. This is most pronounced on the 1-2-3 notes of low C# and low F#, but it also happens on other notes. On almost all trumpets, the third valve slide can be extended with the finger ring or trigger to to lengthen the tubing and flatten the note to be in tune. It's sort of like a miniature trombone slide, just for fine tuning purposes. The saddle or trigger on the first slide does the same thing, but you need it much less often on the first valve slide than on the third.

@King_Conng It does indeed refer to the vandal. Unhinged.

@administrator I completely agree when it comes to traditional network TV. There isn't one single program on regular TV that I watch. But some of the news, documentary, arts, and nature channels are OK. A while ago I had to spend about a half day in a hospital ER waiting room while my mother had surgery. I was the first one there, so I set the channel to the National Geographic channel or something of that sort. But every time I got up and went out to go to the bathroom or check on mom's status, I would come back and somebody had changed the channel to soap operas. OMG. People who watch that stuff are actually allowed to vote?