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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

@administrator said in Notre-Dame de Paris:

Notre-Dame de Paris...brought to you by Microsoft.

I was thinking Uber, or maybe something more temporal.

Uber welcomes you to Amazon Prime Notre Dame Cathedral presented by Guardians Of The Galaxy III. You're in good hands.

Tom Crown straight mute
HB Plunger
Soulo Bucket
Soulo Harmon
Wick Adjustable Cup
Manchester Brass Pocket Trumpet (as a backup)
(all the above in Crown Royal bags)

Blue Juice
Water
AirTurn pedal
Bach 3c

Tito Jermaine (AA batteries) in case someone's stand light runs out
coin batteries for the AirTurn
2x 2100 mAh USB power stick with lightning cord

I have trouble getting past people who use apostrophes for plurals. I mean, this is what, 4th grade grammar ? Third ? I can understand, sort of, that a lot of people weren't paying attention in high school. But they were already cooked by 4th grade ?

Also, people who report that they "seen" something. No, you "saw" it.

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.

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

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.

OK, I started hitting this note 4 weeks ago. 3rd trumpet charts this high are thankfully few and far between. But I am getting there about 3/4 of the time, with airballs the other tries. I will take it down an octave in gigs until I own the note, but this is a major step forward for me.