Best posts made by Rapier232

Andy Taylor in the UK, makes trumpets and amazing flugels.

@N1684T
I have a second TV, but a bit antisocial to go off to a different room.

@Dr-GO

I’m sorry. I only speak English.

I did. When I was around 38, I got some unexpected overtime and my wife said I could treat myself to something. I’d always fancied playing a trumpet, so I went into a music shop and bought a trumpet and Tune a Day book 1. I taught myself to play and read music at the same time. Never had any lessons. After a couple of years I joined a local Brass Band, where I discovered that what I thought was an A was an E. who knew? Anyway I gradually learned the correct fingering and improved. 30 years later I’m still playing. And sometimes get paid for theatre shows.

Still no lessons. However that is my biggest regret. There are huge gaps in my knowledge, range and skills that I lack. I was on shift work in the police, so rarely had the same days off, which, along with the cost, made lessons impossible.

@GeorgeB

Research in the UK shows that trumpets/cornets do not require covers, as less aerosols are released than by breathing when wearing a mask. Flutes are the worst as air is blown straight across the mouthpiece with some force.

@ButchA

Star Trek is more of a cartoon if compared to GofT. You know the good guys will win. You know that if they beam down to a planet, the security guy , you’ve never seen before, will die. And you know the engines can actually take it.

GofT is the opposite. It’s the best TV series I’ve ever seen. The battles are epic. To those that like to boast they’ve never watched an episode, it’s like saying to me, "I’ve never played above the stave." I just pity them.

Mike Lovatt, a great British trumpet player, (lots of movies, Avengers End Game, Judy, etc.) tells how he was employed for a day to show an actor the fingering for a song. Mamma Mia wedding scene. Says it didn’t work, the guy had no idea.

@Bertie

Well, for what it’s worth, I was a National Police Firearms Instructor for 20 years. I taught people with absolutely no experience whatsoever from basic level all the way to very advanced close protection and hostage rescue teams. I found some people, including me, were absolute naturals at all shooting disciplines. Others found the skills difficult and some found them impossible and failed to reach the necessary standards required. So I’d disagree, natural talent/ability does exist, and those with it will out perform those without.

I bought an expensive Tag Heur years ago. Loved it and very accurate but every few years it required a new battery. This could only be done properly at an ‘approved’ agent. Each time the battery was changed it had to be re-sealed to remain waterproof. This got dearer and dearer. In the end I sold it and bought a Seiko Divers for the same price as a Tag service.

@Tobylou8

They both look too thick to be pancakes, but the top pic is closest to pancakes.

@Bertie

Maybe it’s just that ‘they’ can’t quantify talent.

@Dr-GO said in Professional musicians on this board question:

@Rapier232 said in Professional musicians on this board question:

...a professional musician, I’d think that was their job. The only source of income.

If you have a job, but get paid for musical performances that, to me, doesn’t make you a professional musician...

Let me give you an example of a performer that is near and dear to my heart: Eddie Henderson. He is a well know and respected professional jazz musician (Roy Hargrove references him as a mentor and refers to him as "Doc").

Eddie Henderson is also a psychiatrist and as I recently have read is still practicing psychiatry, which is recognized as a medical profession.

That makes him a dual professional, musician and physician. I consider myself the same, as some of us (As Old School Euph) has noted have "other lives" as well to our musical lives. As I noted above, some years I made more as a musician, some years as a clinician. In so doing you do not turn one profession off then turn the other on. Both flow at the same time just as hot and cold water from separate handles can be turned on at the same time to run through a common spicket to produce the same, but warmer result that is still called water.

Sorry Doc. You are a Doctor, who plays trumpet. You are not a trumpeter that plays doctor.

@Kehaulani
My Cleartone mute actually says on the label, ‘Corks may need filing’.

@Tobylou8 said in Is Air Needed To Play The Trumpet:

I've never understood folks that think you can play without air. If one could, there would be no need for breathing exercises. Now I just need to buy an artificial electric drill tongue! Might be inefficient with all the new equipment I have to learn to use.

Well I can play the trumpet and I’ve never needed to do a breathing exercise. ‍️

What happens when a kid turns up with a gun, just takes all the trumpets and keeps the gun?

@ButchA said in Not really a "mouthpiece safari" but the need for a "saving grace" type of mouthpiece...:

Thanks, everyone!

One more question: Does anyone have experience with Denis Wick mouthpieces?

I have a Trumpet 5x. Wick. Very uncomfortable. And yet I can happily play on the 4M or 5 on cornet.

One not on your list that is worth a look is the Smith Watkins Mike Lovatt mouthpiece range. The Lead and Studio versions are very comfortable to play for long periods. You can get 3 different weight boosters too, that screw fit. If you don’t know of Mike Lovatt, check him out on YouTube. Awesome player and much in demand as a lead player for films, shows and orchestra. Flies to the US to play for Seth McFarland and Michael Buble regularly.

@dale-proctor
British Racing Green.

@dr-go
Behind the seats.

@dale-proctor

I’ve owned it for around 35 years now. Only 78000 miles and average mileage a year now is 150 miles or less. Never comes out the garage if raining, going to rain or has rained recently.