Posts made by Pinstriper

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".

Some great topics.

Example #1: BAC integration of Kanstul tooling and design

• The first phase of shop expansion is now up and running
• Kanstul sold off a lot of tooling and never kept great production documentation, forcing BAC to fill in a lot of gaps and ultimately apply bits and pieces to their own new work.
• The train cars arrived from California in August and already new models are hitting the market
• 3 new models, and prototypes refining a fourth are being shown, and some sold
  o Paseo Z72 – a lightweight 72 inspired BAC rework of the Kanstul 1503
  o Plaza – a “legit”, more mainstream all-around professional trumpet
  o Martin Committee – the fourth generation. A new Committee designed with leading edge tech and extensive dimensional and material research into all prior Committees from my 1937 original to the couple of Kanstul 1603s that were built. Designed to manifest the concept “Martin Committee” with the classic sound, broad projection, and same enabling of the player to perform at peak
  o The Benge project – ongoing project to continue the life’s work of Benge and Autrey to perfect the original French sound. Prototypes are being shown
• How the wild-man image of Mike Corrigan is going to mesh with the top tier horns BAC is now developing and selling and the serious professionals they are made for.

I am eager to see what might eventuate from BAC along the lines of a flugel.

Example #4: Voids left by the closure of Kanstul

• Where do DCI groups go for instruments these days? Who is left that specializes?

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.

• What are boutique makers doing
  o Will Flip resource the Wild Thing and Inspiration?
  o What does everyone think of Flip’s new off-shore line?

Waiting for them to hit the streets, following with interest.

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.

TH seems to be going through its periodic "What's the best mouthpiece/trumpet/flugel ?" laundry cycle. The really sad thing is when it is kicked off by experienced musicians who know better, and are just feeding the noise like clickbait articles.

Arturo is apparently a fan of Andaluccia and owns several, played one at a gig at the Hollywood bowl. I rather doubt they are his primaries, but yeah he will support an instrument he likes, even if that falls short of "endorsement" or "promotion".

I still use a spinning rod for throwing spinners, spoons, and twitching jigs.

For bobber fishing, bobber dogging, etc. I have moved to bait casters almost exclusively, especially from a drift boat. You don't need super long casts in this kind of fishing (though I can reliably cast a bobber and egg rig 50' or so an rarely get a birds nest) and the ability to let more line out or stop the freespool with one hand, and a lot faster than flipping the bail on a spinner has made me a convert.

I do use a spinning setup in the surf, and most of my bass fishing involves a spinning rod/reel.

Will you be posting the full list ?

@ROWUK said in Lead found in brass horn mouthpieces:

This is all fine and good, but is the excuse - other things are bad for you too the right argument? Even if a mouthpiece is plated, is what we "think" or "assume" even asked for. We have a lot of Americans believing anything that they want to - from guns to global warming. It is hard to find enough facts outside of the emotion and populist BS being spread thick.

California did not dream lead poisoning up. They announced levels for legislation long before the laws took effect. That is an OK process in my book. It is also what I expect from a reasonable functional government. Don't clobber overnight, give the industries time to adjust. If they sleep on this, goodbye - or move out of state and don't sell in California. Make the Californians travel to Tijuana if they disagree with the policy.

I was merely offering a counterpoint to the view that plastic was presumed to be safe. It depends on the plastic.

Whether a particular political body ignores the science and "finds" something to be so, that may not be, is its own phenomenon. As far as reasonable sounding regulation goes, anyone in the environmental sciences or compliance field knows all too well that in order to be in compliance with one standard, you have to violate another, and so you decide which fine to pay.

Not all plastic is safe. Not all brass is toxic.

Anybody remember the nalgene bottle scare where people were convinced there were toxic chemicals leaching out of the plastic ?

Don't be too sure that plastic is any safer than anything else, simply because it is plastic.