Best posts made by Newell Post

I'm a DIY-er also. But I'm fortunate enough to be able to take the more valuable horns to the pros when necessary. I only try major things on "project" horns of little value and I only do simple, routine things on the more valuable horns. This guy was mentioned above, but he has a very good series of videos on YouTube.....

There are also many other good tutorials on YouTube.

My most recent project has been lapping the valves on my Bach Mercedes. Before I started, that horn had the stickiest, balkiest valves of any horn I ever played. If that was really a Strad valve block before it went into the Mercedes, it must have been a "second" or reject block. I still don't have the valves the way I want, but they are much better than when I started. To avoid over-lapping, I only do a little hand-lapping and then clean it out thoroughly, play for a few days, and repeat. Nothing appears to be bent or warped. A pro could probably have gotten it right in one operation instead of several trial-end-error sessions, like me. But what the heck. I enjoy it and the horn is only a backup and practice instrument.

Yeah, but the kid in question is 8 years old. So the smaller size might work for him, for now. 1C, maybe later.

How about sticking to an established standard like....

C4 (middle C)
C5 (treble C)
C6 (high C)
C7 (double C)
C8... that's baloney. No trumpet ever really gets to C8.

Yeah, yeah. I know Bb trumpets are transposing instruments one step off concert key. But the forgoing notation is traditional, accepted, and concise.

@neal085 I'm not dead, yet!

I'm glad it worked for you, Butch.

@Brian-Moon Dude, I'm 64 years old and a recreational player. It ain't going to happen.

Well, there are some prayers or prayer requests that wouldn't be appropriate for this kind of site because they express the primacy of one particular religion or derogate others. But there are more generic prayers that, while not everyone's "cup of tea", should not be overly offensive.

@BigDub LOL, in my day job as an architect, we need to specify stuff like that. In one of my past jobs, we needed to call for sensors in the space that would sense the temperature and send that information back to the DDC computer temperature controls. We always specified digital thermostats on the wall that could both sense and control the temperature, but we only hooked up the sensor function, not the control function. The "placebo" thermostat is more common in large buildings than most people know.

Q: What's the difference between Richard Pryor and Michael Jackson?

A: One got burned by coke and the other got burned by Pepsi.

https://www.facebook.com/PianoAround/videos/1519220728219040/

OK, redact me. I dare you.

I used to work with a woman named Ilene Bendover.

@SSmith1226 It's all about that bass.

OK. I caved. But I was running really, really low. And Sears doesn't send me the "big book" catalog any more. But I took only one package. They guy ahead of me in line had 4.

Mendini or Jinbao?

I used to have a friend named Rodney Leibold. But in the early days of spellcheck, it would always try to autocorrect his name to Rodent Libeled.

@Vulgano-Brother "You're gonna need a bigger trumpet", to paraphrase "Jaws."

@BigDub I swear on a stack of bibles that I am good personal friends with the professor of forensic pathology who said the last one.

Pun, n. A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire.
— Ambrose Bierce

FWIW, I appear to have won my campaign for election to the city council of my small-ish Silicon Valley city.