Posts made by Newell Post

@kehaulani Just joking around, dude.

Maybe it's that left-handed trumpet on the album cover. Or maybe the fact that she appears to be about 4'-6" tall.

Finally. An honest ad.

The Bach website still says "Made in the USA." But that might mean the parts are made all over the world and a little final soldering is done in Ohio.

I haven't tried the Schilke but, generally speaking, I don't like copper bells on trumpets. The ones I have used and tried sound too dull or something.

• Copper bells on flugelhorns = terrific
• Copper bells on cornets = terrific
• Gold brass (high copper content brass) on trumpets = great
• Copper bells on trumpets = not my cup of tea

@oldschooleuph It is very strange that Bach would make the TR300 (student model) in the USA, but import the TR200 (intermediate model). However, I believe you are correct.

@ssmith1226 Crack that whip.

@dr-go I think I'll Taiwan on, instead.

@smoothoperator True. Harry lived to age 67, which was actually pretty good, given the booze and cigarettes.

@flugelgirl Tell us more, flugelgirl.

@kehaulani

"It is important to point out just how hard the Goodman musicians worked in those days. At the Paramount, the band played five shows a day (later years it became seven or eight), seven days a week. Simultaneously, it was working at the Hotel Pennsylvania from 7 pm to 1:30 am every night but Sunday.... Rehearsals for the Tuesday night Camel Caravan broadcast took place after the gig on Thursday nights until 4am." (From "Trumpet Blues.")

That was early in his career, when he was with Benny Goodman. I'm sure he slowed down later on. And he definitely liked drinking, womanizing, and gambling.

@kehaulani According to some books, he performed up to 6 hours per day, on some days. Who has the time or the chops to practice with that kind of performance schedule?

@trumpetlearner Good observation. You should use as little pressure as possible.

@gloucestre Very nice!

@trumpetlearner When you use the valves in combination, the notes tend to become sharp. This is most pronounced on the 1-2-3 notes of low C# and low F#, but it also happens on other notes. On almost all trumpets, the third valve slide can be extended with the finger ring or trigger to to lengthen the tubing and flatten the note to be in tune. It's sort of like a miniature trombone slide, just for fine tuning purposes. The saddle or trigger on the first slide does the same thing, but you need it much less often on the first valve slide than on the third.

Don't buy any vintage horn if you are a beginner. (Unless an experienced player tells you it is OK.) Leave the antiques to people who have dealt with them for a long time. Get a nice, slightly-used, fairly new, student model Yamaha or Jupiter. I know that isn't very cool, but it will serve you better.
Also, you won't need the first slide saddle or trigger for a long time.

Mine comes with partial deafness on the left side, due to being on a sailboat that was struct by lightning. I went deaf for about 5 minutes when that happened.

I have great difficulty talking on a traditional telephone using the left ear. However, I can hear fairly well using a cell phone on the left side. I think there is something about the difference between an analog signal (traditional phone) and a digital/compressed signal (cell phone). Many compression algorithms cut out some of the intermediate frequencies. I don't know if that makes a difference.

I use a white noise machine when I sleep that seems to help.

@curlydoc Well, I'm sure Henry, Edsel, Walter, and Willy didn't advertise them that way, but yeah...

@j-jericho I think that one might be a "business coupe." Such cars were made for "traveling salesmen." They were 2-seaters with huge trunks for traveling salesmen to carry samples and small inventories.