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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....

@Dr-GO Actually, not quite.... A BROKEN watch is right twice per day. But, for example, a watch that is set 30 minutes ahead of the correct time, but runs true, is never correct.

Ha! Try living in San Francisco.

2000: Pacific Bell Park
2003: SBC Park
2006: AT&T Park
2019: Oracle Park

But Candlestick Park was always Candlestick Park, the way God intended.

"Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."
-- Samuel Johnson: Letter to Fransesco Sastres (August 21, 1784)

Unnhhh... According to the "Manual of Style" on my bookshelf....

• Lay (verb) means "to put in place." It must have an object. (Example: "The contractor promised to lay the sod before the rains began.")
• Lie (verb) means "to rest or recline." It cannot have an object. (Example: "The main plant entrance lies south of the personnel building.")
• Lie (verb) second meaning: "to intentionally utter a falsehood."
• Lie (noun) means: "a knowingly false statement."

Or, as I learned it many years ago in school: "You should lay the baby down for a while. If he can lie still for a few minutes, he might feel better."

.... and Drogon marries Rhaegal and they make dragon eggs, so that dragons do not again perish from The Known World.....

Many of Shakespeare's plays end with weddings, in some cases multiple weddings. It's a convenient way to tie up loose ends and signal the achievement of happiness and the promise of regeneration.

• As You Like It: ends with 4 weddings
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ends with 3 weddings
• Twelfth Night: ends with 3 weddings
• Much Ado About Nothing: ends with one wedding and one expected wedding

Maybe that's how they end GOT. Jon marries Daenerys and they rule jointly happily ever after (after offing Cersei). Tormund marries Brienne of Tarth and they make ginormous babies that conquer the world. Samwell marries Gilly and gets promoted to maester, junior grade. Gray Worm marries Missandei. .... but somewhere in the background, there's a MacGuffin that tells us it won't be "happily ever after" for very long. Maybe some of the white walkers survived, to return some day, etc. etc. THEY'LL BE BACK!

@Robrtx Well, one of the darkest anyway. And I'm not talking about dramatically dark, I'm talking about lighting. I couldn't tell if my TV screen was on or off for most of that episode.....

...in other words, it is easier to defeat a massive army of un-dead ice zombies than for several human tribes to make peace among themselves....

For ever and ever, it was "The King's English." But the old joke during the reign of George VI was that the queen's english was much better than the king's.

@Kehaulani "Braces" or even "galluses". My grandfather used the latter term which I always thought was just really old fashioned. But I now find it is actually a Scottish term.

@trickg There is an active debate about that right now among the architectural and historic communities. There are three possible strategies:

• Replace everything with historically accurate things, right down to the wood pegs holding the rafters together. This maintains the original configuration, but those wouldn't really be 12th century pegs now, would they?
• Restore the exterior as it was, but use modern structural materials in the "attic" and places where they are not visible. This maintains the original appearance, but clearly says to anyone interested that the structural work is 21st century.
• Fix the stone vaults, but do something completely new with the roof that clearly expresses our own age. That may seem heretical to some, but there are cathedrals that were built over many hundreds of years that changed drastically in style as they expanded. Witnesseth St. Albans, north of London. Salisbury might seem "prettier" to some since it was built in a very short period of time and is therefore very consistent in style throughout. But St. Albans is a great expression of the times in which is was built.

As an aside, I once worked next door to a pipe organ factory that went back to the 19th century. They had the most amazing woodworking shop I have ever seen anywhere. (And I have worked in the building design and construction industry my whole life.) Many of their machine tools went back to 1880, but were immense and incredibly powerful and accurate. When they got a new commission, trucks would show up piled high with rough-sawn lumber. They surfaced it and cut it into anything they needed. The only thing they didn't make from scratch was the brass tubing for the little bitty pipes. Unfortunately, they didn't build many new organs. Most of their business was repairing and restoring old ones. But they had a large room where they assembled new organs for testing and final voicing. They sometimes had open houses when one was ready to ship with performers playing them for demonstration purposes. It was quite an experience to take the shop tour and hear the demo. It even got used in a cult horror movie once. (Start at around 6:52)