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Please add Hornucopia, 1549 Laurel St, San Carlos, CA 94070. I know it is not one of the "usual suspects", and they don't have an online store (to my knowledge). But everybody in the San Francisco Bay area knows the place. Sandy has the most amazing inventory of professional trumpets and trumpet stuff I have ever seen, except for Dillon.

@Dr-GO Yikes. Glad you're OK. My old home town, Lawrence, KS, got clipped yesterday. No deaths, but a dozen injured.

https://www.axios.com/massive-tornado-strikes-kansas-69f26459-8cab-4020-9b76-14da120398b4.html

LOL. OK, so here's the rest of the story..... I show up at the one and only rehearsal and after the first two pieces, the conductor says: "These next few pieces have some of the melody in the flugelhorn part. We really need that. Third cornets, can you find the flugel part and cover it?"

So I (the substitute Eb player) stick up my hand and say: "I brought my flugel, if you want me to try it." "Great. Do it.", he says.

So, for the next few days, I'm running about half of the pieces on Eb and half on flugel. We get to the gig this morning and he says: "Oh, the regular flugel guy is here today. I need you to do everything on Eb." So, I wind up sight reading about 4 pieces on Eb, an instrument where I'm not really fluent. (Well, I guess it wasn't pure sight reading, since I had played the pieces, just not the Eb part.) But we survived.

The thing I did find helpful was to use a lot of abdominal support, but not over blow.

@Bob-Pixley Got it. Thanks. The performance is on Monday, so I still have time. I have been practicing with it every day, and I'm starting get the "feel" for the different pitch, but time will tell.

@Tobylou8 LOL. That would have been an improvement.

@administrator Well, we're not yet sure what the end game is for Kanstul. It could be some kind of M&A deal....

@administrator The ending was... "not with a bang, but with a whimper." It could have been worse. But with after such a major build-up, it was unsatisfying. It certainly won't go down in the annals of great series finales like "MASH", or "Six Feet Under", or "Newhart."

@Vulgano-Brother That's how he got the (real) scar across his face. He got kicked or kneed in the face while performing at CBGB.

Here's how I would end it (maybe).....

• We learn that Drogon got the blood lust and threw Dany off in the last episode before torching King's Landing. (We never saw Dany riding Drogon after the bells rang and the "bad guys" surrendered.)
• Jon and Dany agree that Drogon must die if s/he cannot be controlled. They kill Drogon.
• Dany acknowledges Jon is the heir to the throne, but they agree to "bend the knee" to each other, marry, and rule jointly, with Tyrion as their "hand."
• Before the wedding, many people seek an audience with Tyrion. (Sort if like the scene from "The Godfather.") Some seek official positions or favors. Other just want to pledge their allegiance. Examples include Brienne of Tarth. Tyrion tells her to go north and find Tormund, her true love. Other dramatic loos ends are tied up in these audiences.
• The grand finale scene is the wedding/coronation of Jon and Dany. Unlike previous GOT weddings, this one is a grand and happy celebration.
• But in the final scene, the camera pans the assembled celebrants and one opens his BLUE EYES. They'll be back!

@BigDub spackling

ROWUK, or at least someone using that name, logged on as a user about two weeks ago.

Bass trombone, harmon mute, glissando, wah, with cimbasso cues. You don't see that in your scores everyday. But it works for them.....

OK, so to bring a musical twist to this thread....

As one of the commenters said on YouTube.... "I hope nobody else anywhere in the world needed a contrabass trombone that day...

...and if I don't survive, hey, I'm already at the cemetery!...

I was surprised to see them depict something that was all too common in classical warfare. When the "bad guys" surrender and throw down their weapons, the "good guys" go berserk and start looting, pillaging, burning, raping, and killing. That's how most sieges actually ended. In Shakespeare's Henry V, he implores his army to go a little easy on the looting, pillaging, burning, raping, and killing at Harfleur since the town actually surrendered.

BTW, after the surrender, while Drogon was continuing to torch the town, did anybody actually see Dany riding Drogon at that point? I didn't. The images were all from long distance. I suppose it is possible Drogon got the blood lust and Dany couldn't control him/her/it. Not sure of Drogon's gender.....

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...

What I was sort of hoping for was advice from more experienced Eb players like:

• In the upper portion of the range, try x with the breath support but y with the lips. However, in the lower portion of the range, try the opposite (or whatever).

Or maybe....

• Even Maurice couldn't make an Eterna Eb trumpet sound right. Just bite the bullet and get a really good Eb cornet such as a <insert favorite here>

@Robrtx Good point. On the other hand, the dragons weren't being particularly cautious, partly because they are dragons, and partly because they didn't know the ships had a whole bunch of ballistae on board.

One of my colleagues asked me to sub for him at a band performance at a military cemetery on Memorial Day. But there's a catch. He plays the Eb trumpet/cornet parts for this particular event. I have a Getzen Eterna D/Eb I bought several years ago as an experiment and because it was cheap. I play it now and then and have performed a couple of incidental things on it, but I have no real training on Eb and am certainly no kind of expert.

The problem is that it sounds OK when I really play out and project. But when I try to throttle back to mf or lower the lower range just sounds really tinny and the upper range sounds shrill. I have tried quite a few different mouthpieces including 3C, 10.5C, Stork 7P (piccolo), Schilke 11D4, Schilke 12B4, and even 3C Megatone. So far, the 3C Megatone actually sounds best (!), but I have difficulty hitting the highest notes on it. The 10.5C has the best range, but the tone is "thinner."

Any suggestions other than to go buy a Schilke Eb cornet? I can't justify that level of investment.

Thanks.

ROWUK in the house....