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

I used to work with a woman named Ilene Bendover.

If you want to try one of the "cushion" rims, I have a Bach 10.75CW that I tried as an experiment. I tried it a few times, but it's just not my thing. I'm sticking with the boring Wick 3C for most things and Bach 10.5C when I'm getting tired. PM me if you want to try the 10.75CW.

Try the Bach 10.5C. They are easy to find. You could probably find one used somewhere for $25. They have a nice, flat rim similar to the 3C, but a "smaller" cup. That's what I switch to when running out of gas. Vincent Bach himself said it was the perfect mouthpiece for C trumpet or for "anyone with weak lips." It might not be right for you, but it's a cheap experiment.

Thanks, Barliman2001. Here's what I found in Wikipedia about the original hymn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Es_ist_ein_Ros_entsprungen

So, my old geezer recreational band is doing "Fantasia on a Hymn by Praetorius" as part of a holiday concert on Thursday. My college band director, Robert E. Foster, wrote it, but I don't know anything about the background. (Except that Praetorius apparently took an old melody, put some harmony to it, and wrote it up as a church hymn. Then Bob took that hymn and ran with it.) Does anyone know anything about this piece and how Dr. Foster decided to compose it? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Jim Thorpe was one of the best athletes of all time. He won Olympic gold medals for pentathlon and decathlon. Those medals were later revoked when it was learned he had played (minor league) professional baseball under a false name in contravention of the Olympic amateurism rules. He was deemed to be a professional athlete, although his baseball gig was short-term and part-time and had no connection to his competition as a pentathlete and decathlete. (The gold medals were reinstated much later and posthumously.)

@GeorgeB If you got paid, then you meet the traditional definition of a professional. You don't need to earn your full-time living doing it.

Bruce Springsteen tells a great story about their early days when they opened for Chuck Berry somewhere in New Jersey. Chuck traveled by himself in those days and used local pick-up bands for backing. Bruce had already signed to be the opening act that night and the promoter asked him if he knew a band that could back Chuck. Bruce said: "Heck, yeah. We can do it. We'll already be onstage and we know his tunes." Chuck got $11,000 in cash from the promoter before he went on. If the gear worked OK and the backing band was good enough, he gave back $1,000 to the promoter.

Bruce didn't really know all of Chuck's tunes, but they went out and bought all of Chuck's albums and wood shedded them. When Chuck took the stage, he just launched into whatever song he thought was right without saying a word to Bruce's backing band. Bruce was going: "Mr. Berry! Mr. Berry! What key?" Chuck's response: "Shut and play for that money, white boy!"

Not sure I understand the question, since I never play 4-valve horns. But isn't 2-4 the same thing as 1-2-3?

@Niner Not his big band. It was in the 60s. Ozzie and Harriet owned the rights to an old Broadway musical named "State Fair." Their semi-retirement gig was to tour the country every few years doing revivals of "State Fair."

Ozzie Nelson. (Harriet's husband, Ricky's dad.) He gave us the worst ass chewing of my entire life, one time. IRL he wasn't the laid-back character he usually played on TV.

Decorative wall hangers.

My favorite version of the National Anthem is......

Oh, wait. That's one of the songs that maybe SHOULD be the national anthem, not the one that actually is the national anthem of the USA.

Just in case any of our overseas colleagues missed it.....

OK, redact me. I dare you.