Who broke Rule #1 ?

Now we gotta ditch the site and start all over again in hiding.

I'm pretty sure you're supposed to rinse the ketchup off before putting the valves back in.

Like, 95% sure.

@GeorgeB said in RIP Trumpet "Master":

I have learned a lot just reading some of Robin's replies and suggestions to those who sought advice, myself included. He may have sounded pompus to some, but many knowledgeable people come across that way, though they certainly don't mean to. There were times in some of Robin's posts that he actually came across as being quite humble.

I'D LOVE TO SEE ROWUK COME HERE !!!!

Rowuk's posts were amazingly educational, to the extent I could understand and apply. He may have rubbed some people the wrong way with his direct language, but I always saw it as just coming straight to the point and not pussyfooting around.

But then, some people think I can be condescending from time to time. (that means they think I talk down to people)

@Estevao My eyesight is pretty poor anymore. I wear +5.0 contacts just for walking around, and +1.75 cheaters to read. My solution to reading music was to scan it all and put it on the biggest iPad I can get, in ForScore. With aggressive cropping, and also extensive cleanup - often pixel by pixel - to get rid of smudges, smears, schmutz that others can ignore but which my eyes take longer to recognize and disregard. I can get a remarkably clean and legible sheet out of a very nasty, crufty scan, and about 125% larger than if it was on a clean page. In some cases our original paper was the result of a scan of a scan of a photocopy of a copy of a copy and compared to that I have a few that are closer to 175% of original.

I also turn the brightness on the screen all the way up. Really helps.

THEN you also have the option of turning it sideways and viewing half a page at a time. You have more page turns, and it will be harder to read very far ahead, so you will want to make use of the Links feature to help with jumps, possibly even in repeats and certainly in dal segno and coda jumps.

It's the difference between spelling words out phonetically and recognizing whole words as a single symbol, or even entire phrases. Eventually you start to think in those composite symbols, just like we all know what things like IIRC, LOL, IANAL, OMG etc. which is pretty much when you can apply the fakebooks effectively.

For all of the snootiness on TH - and there was more there than at TM - there is still a fair amount of "what's the best tape to make my mouthpiece fit better and how many wraps should I use ?" type threads.

This site may still be above the mean in pull-my-finger posts as reflects the nucleus of long-ish term members at TM who have perhaps seen enough of the stock discussions and had more of a social focus. That may change as people stumble upon/into it. The fact that it is more of a community than a content store isn't necessarily bad, provided the content develops enough to bring in more scale.

@JorgePD said in We're off to a good start:

@J-Jericho

As a comeback player, I’m one the less experienced players here on TB and so far I really like what’s happening here. I like the friendly tone of the responses and comments. I think it will help attract the less experienced players, especially young students, and create word of mouth that, over time, will make this forum a success. Hopefully the nasty grumps from TH will stay away!

The TM community, by and large, made room for us hacks to contribute. This is not generally true at TH, which always had more of a "dog show" vibe, despite a roughly equal representation of "What mouthpiece should I buy to hit double-C ?" posts.

This is music. Technically.

Youtube Video

Do the suspenders still fit ?

@Estevao My eyesight is pretty poor anymore. I wear +5.0 contacts just for walking around, and +1.75 cheaters to read. My solution to reading music was to scan it all and put it on the biggest iPad I can get, in ForScore. With aggressive cropping, and also extensive cleanup - often pixel by pixel - to get rid of smudges, smears, schmutz that others can ignore but which my eyes take longer to recognize and disregard. I can get a remarkably clean and legible sheet out of a very nasty, crufty scan, and about 125% larger than if it was on a clean page. In some cases our original paper was the result of a scan of a scan of a photocopy of a copy of a copy and compared to that I have a few that are closer to 175% of original.

I also turn the brightness on the screen all the way up. Really helps.

THEN you also have the option of turning it sideways and viewing half a page at a time. You have more page turns, and it will be harder to read very far ahead, so you will want to make use of the Links feature to help with jumps, possibly even in repeats and certainly in dal segno and coda jumps.

I don't know that I have any worthwhile advice on what to do, but I can say one thing NOT to do is start a sensitive thread on a board that is already supposed to not have politics on it, and then reverse course when it inevitably becomes charged. That was a large error.

I agree with Dale and GO about making it a more trumpet focused site, less of the irrelevancies. Unfortunately, the barrier to differentiation while also sticking to "all things trumpet" is pretty high. And the non-trumpetness of this site makes me fear the opportunity has already been missed, if indeed it ever existed.

I'll be using my 2-piston DEG G bugle.

It's the difference between spelling words out phonetically and recognizing whole words as a single symbol, or even entire phrases. Eventually you start to think in those composite symbols, just like we all know what things like IIRC, LOL, IANAL, OMG etc. which is pretty much when you can apply the fakebooks effectively.

Same here. I don't have the musical training others got in their youth. For me it is "see note, play note". My reading continues to improve, particularly rythms, but my "reading" is more like "decoding" than being able to read outloud in realtime.

I think it all comes down to extensive scale studies, in which I never have invested.

"I have rules". LOL

Our band lost its practice facilities, so we're on hiatus for at least 3-4 weeks.

I don't see any sexism, and even squinting real hard I can't find the breast reference. I DO see an attempt to avoid calling the fat lady a fat lady.

FWIW as a fat man, I think fat people need to be very mindful of the space they try to squeeze through, to avoid bumping into things and people.

@OldSchoolEuph said in Crickets?:

@Pinstriper said in Crickets?:

BAC is handing System Blue, which is now made offshore. Yamaha of course is probably the biggest footprint. Kanstul's offshore Tama line was a thing, dunno what became of that. And there are a smattering of lines running Andalucia horns which are also offshore production.

Tony Scodwell is also launching a new flugel, of course as Kanstul has shut. No word yet on who is doing the production. Seems like everything is either offshore or BAC, and I worry if BAC tries to fill every void. Maybe they can.

I have heard Andalucia lines - the depth of sound knocks you back on your heels. They were a mix of Carol & Kanstul for a time. I assume they have reverted to all Carol then (?)

BAC has been fairly clear about not trying to be everything Kanstul did - it was a bad strategy for Kanstul, and they can see that careful targeted products are a much more prudent course of action.

Certain AMI instruments were made onshore by Kanstul. He had a bell front (marching) alto horn in F that was made after the Kanstul G Alto bugle, for instance.

I have one of his Phase III trumpets, the K20 bell. Loud. Big. Full. But you have to put two layers of foam on your mutes, the bell was only a smidge smaller than a Kanstul 1525 flugel.

I don't know whether they are made by Carol per se, or "one of Carol's suppliers".