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

@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.

....if you're thinking non-traditional, my Easter gig is with.... the Unitarian Universalists. Well OK, it's my own church, but with the "UU"s the music can be almost anything. It can be some of those great old traditional church hymns like "Jesus Christ is Risen Today" (see above) but with somewhat more abstract and less literal lyrics. Or it can more modern things.

Today (Palm Sunday) the choir did a great choral arrangement of "I am Willing" by Holly Near. Holly has shown up in person at our place and done it in the past. (But not today.)

What's on tap for Easter Sunday? Not sure. The director hasn't decided yet. (That's kind of UU, also.) Probably just playing along with the pipe organ on some of those big old, grand hymns. But we will see.....

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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.

@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.

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...

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

All of my three community bands cancelled the season TODAY because of COVID-19 virus fears. I'll miss the Monday and Friday bands. Wednesday, not so much.

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.

That's sort of like asking: "How do you feel about Brussels sprouts?" Well prepared and in moderation: Great! Poorly prepared and in excess: Barf!

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

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.

@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.

Costco "office glasses" work great for me. They are "blended bifocals" with middle-distance prescription uppers and reading-distance prescription lowers.

I wind up playing the Eb parts in a couple of groups. I have a Getzen Eterna D/Eb trumpet that I used to use. Later I broke down and bought an Eb Yamaha Neo cornet. The Yamaha is better and more consistent. But I'm getting too old to cover those Eb parts these days. It seems like the higher horns should logically give you some extra range for free. Not so. Eb is a LOT more work and a completely different experience, no matter what horn you use.

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@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?