Posts made by Newell Post

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@grune Try a luggage and shoe repair shop. They exist in most cities. A local shop like that repaired one of my older Bach cases.

So, I bought a Getzen Eb/F Alto trumpet, just because it was really cheap and unusual. I will probably never play this horn for anything, but it's not quite lamp material, either. The valves work well and it plays OK, except the consistency of intonation is terrible in the lower part of the range. I don't really know where one would play one of these horns, except maybe in a drum and bugle corp to cover the french horn part of the range, or something like that.

My question concerns the mouthpiece. The receiver seems to take a standard trumpet mp shank. I have tried the horn with the largest mp I have which is a 1.5C, and it doesn't seem quite right. Any suggestions for what mouthpiece might work for this thing?

San Franciscans and San Francisco tourists will probably remember this guy. He was around for years.

1. Warm up with long tones and lip slurs. Start at C5 and work up and down.
2. Do one of the lessons from "Mitchell on Trumpet." I'm currently on Lesson 66. "Mitchell" is great because each lesson contains items for range, endurance, flexiblity, speed, tonguing, and challenging key signatures. And the lessons get progressively more difficult as you move through the series.
3. Play an etude such as one from Hering "Advanced Studies..."
4. Rest
5. At another time of day, work on pieces for upcoming performances.
6. If there are no upcoming performances, just try to play musically from whatever source seems right.

The sky at my house. (Once in a while.)

...and I have eyewitnesses to prove it....

...and here's the "UFO" that showed up right after the eclipse...

The only time in my life I ever saw a 100% total eclipse.

Might be a bass trumpet / valve trombone.

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

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

Just re-watched "The Station Agent." That was a completely different type of movie, but it was Dinklage's first leading role, I think. It also had some interesting early parts by Bobby Cannavale (Will and Grace), Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek), and John Slattery (Mad Men).

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

@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.

@SSmith1226

LOL. That's pretty sick, even for SNL. Funny, but sick.

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.

@Niner I know. I used to have a full B&W darkroom and I later scanned a lot of 35mm, 120/220, and even 4x5 negatives for work. But the full film, paper, chemicals, and enlarger experience was delightful alchemy.