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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.

I miss black and white. I know you can still do it in the digital age, but it's just not the same as watching that image come up in the developer tray under the darkroom safelights. That was as close to magic as we ever achieved in the postmodern world.

@Niner You will notice a "brick" on the left end of my "shelf museum" of retired cameras. My mother gave it to my father some time in the 1950s. It was very slow to use -- but not as slow as my view camera -- and we did indeed have our share of double exposures in the Kodachrome carousels.

Here are the ones I have on display in my "museum." I used all of them at one time or another, as part of my work as an architect. But digital is so much faster and flexible I haven't used film in quite a few years, at this point. I used to have a good 4x5 Omega view camera, which is one of the few I sold. The view camera shown here is a "build this camera yourself from our kit!" version. It actually works, but you would never use it in a professional situation.

@Tobylou8

M. C. Escher's trumpet.

Going from memory, the first keyed bugles appeared around 1800, the first rotary valves in the 1820s, and the first piston valves in the 1830s, so the date of 1813 is right on the money. The Haydn trumpet concerto was written in 1796 and was first performed on a keyed trumpet not entirely unlike this bugle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Concerto_(Haydn)

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When I lived in Tennessee, I went to grad school with a woman who had grown up in a small, rural Tennessee town with two profoundly deaf parents. She was a great friend and wonderful study partner, but the combination of a strong accent and a lisp (which is very common among children of profoundly deaf parents) could be a real challenge. Remember the movie "Nell" from a few years ago? Well, it wasn't that bad, but there were some similarities. (And "Nell" was filmed very near where we lived.)

@neal085 I'm not dead, yet!

Well, after William the Conqueror invaded England, a whole bunch of British noblemen were actually of French heritage. Many of them didn't even speak English. Henry IV was the first English King to actually speak the English language with native fluency. There are a whole lot of British people with French names. Would you prefer that Capt. Picard sound like this guy?.....