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@Dr-GO said in We're off to a good start:

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

What can we do to build our user base? I believe that TH has something like 70k registered users. We only have 130 to date.

A little math.

We have 130 @ 5 weeks = 26 new member/week.
26 members/wk x 52 wks in a year - 1,352 members/year.

70,000 TH members/1,352 members TB members/year = 51 years.

Hey, perhaps we are on course, as hasn't TH been around for 51 years... or does it just seem that way!

These things don't trend linear. We haven't reached critical mass, and won't until there are more topics of substance. That's fine for now.

Oh, if nobody noticed, jazzspazz has moved the troll show over to TH.

The only contribution I could make here is the Dillon flugel I bought in rose brass. I don't have a pic but will take one if there is a groundswell of demand for same.

@Richard-III said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

@King_Conng said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

@Richard-III Is that a king 1122 marching french horn? I played on a conn 134e during marching season when not on cornet. I always had trouble with the lyre holder's placement, do you have that problem?

Well, you named the horn. Yes it is. I never marched with it so have never tried it with a lyre. In my day, back in the early 70's, our mellophones were two valve things in G. If I remember correctly. And we had everything memorized. Drum and Bugle Corps. The corps, now defunct was the Knight Raiders.

You missed the valve-rotor days. Some day imma buy me a v-r mello, just because. Most fun horn to play, ever.

@fels said in I played a D# !!:

D# -- equivalent to E flat. Hayden. I always wanted to get to the point where I can play Hayden. I play in the jazz band and have worked on register for three or four years. Now i can do the D# in Hayde or elsewhere. Congratulations -- now the challenge is to keep it and make it part of your regular routine.

Looking at

Calling is a D# makes it sound higher.

Check out a copy of Hogan's Power Golf, he list his club yardages, which line up nicely with today's LPGA column in your table.

He was widely considered the tour's big hitter in his day.

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.

@Kehaulani said in I played a D# !!:

I'm asking about the OP. Thad Mel had some awesome blowers.

It's a Nestico chart called Color Me Warm, and the 3rd part has a lick that starts on G above the staff, going to D, then D#. For 4 years I've played that down an octave, but a few weeks ago tried and found I was on the notes. I certainly don't "command" anything above B. But reaching for, and finding these notes, is to me kind of like cracking the lid on a jar, and it is getting easier, less of a squeak.

And can we get a brief synopsis of the death of TM ?

Welcome, Robin. Our legitimacy just took a leap forward.

It doesn't get any better than Byron.

@Dr-GO said in I played a D# !!:

Congratulations from this end as well. The D# and the Ab and especially the A above that D# in the upper range are particularly challenging, as I find any high range combination including the second valve as a little tricky for slotting. When you are up in that range, the slotting gets tighter so you can tend to glide to another "false tonic" unless you are solid on the note. Can't do much to make that D# or Ab easier, but for the A, using the false fingering third valve only really helps to lock that A into place.

I should live so long to worry about the A above the D above the staff is in perfect tune !

"There are no dumb ideas. But there certainly are dumb people who act on their ideas."

So, what they do is sift through Amazon reviews and aggregate the results. So you don't have to read all the "I bought this as a gift for my 5-year old and he LOVES it ! So happy with this purchase" posts.

I'd prefer they spend their time combing Amazon Q&A for people who reply to product questions with "Sorry, I don't know. Hope this helps", go to their homes and slap them with a fish. That would be a value-add.

@Brian-Moon said in Spread the Word and Help Lower my Blood Pressure:

@Niner

Never heard of bigly, but it doesn't sound like someone trying to use big words that are wrong.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

@administrator said in TM Refugee - Late to the Party.:

@Pinstriper said in TM Refugee - Late to the Party.:

Who broke Rule #1 ?

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

What's rule 1? I allow account name changes.

It was a joke about keeping Neal in the dark.