Posts made by Richard III

@trumpetlearner said in King Silver Flair - Buying Advice:

Rather than start a new thread, I have another question for anyone with a Silver Flair. My new Yamaha has a little screw to stop the 3rd valve slide falling out, but I don't see this on the silver flair. Is this a new thing for trumpets? What stops the slide falling out on a trumpet that doesn't have one of these?

When I leave my trumpet on its vertical stand for a few days, I do sometimes come back to find the 3rd valve has slid down to to the screw, and if the screw wasn't there, I suppose it would have fallen out completely!

Don't ever leave it on the stand when you are not there. Bad things happen. The least of which is the slide moving. Other bad things like it falling over and the second valve slide gets jammed into the valve casing and Mr. Trumpet is not all wonky and unplayable.

Well, since this thread popped up, I'll relate a recent occurance.

Last Saturday was the first band practice in over a year. Trad jazz. New band. Never met these people before in person.

For a year I've practiced playing from lead sheets and doing improv. Occasionally use backing tracks. But mostly just improvising on the songs. I start in a different key and practice that too.

I wondered how it would all sound when playing with others. The answer? Wow, pretty darn well. The pandemic has given me the time to work on improv in the safety of my own home.

Now I say, "Give me the solo, man!"

Any theory involved in what I did? No. But also I've spent a year listening to a lot of music in this style. So that gets internalized and comes out.

Would it happen if I listened to another style. Yes. Works that way too. Listen, internalize, play and away we go.

I was in a bar band in high school. This was one of the songs that we really played well. Very popular.

Oh yea, bar band, teenagers playing in bars, it was the early 70's. I'm guessing it wouldn't happen these days. Our lead singer always got lots of female attention. Bar ladies loved that guy. Only a skosh older than him. Heh.

Please continue to post these. I absolutely love them. What a gem this one is. I would love to play that cornet.

Much appreciated.

One thing and then I'll go away. When listening to someone improvise, the playing licks thing is obvious and doesn't work for me. Sticking a lick into this or that key is not inventing on the fly. Also, extended chords sound like extended chords and not music to me. Jazz learned in college sounds like jazz learned in college. As in I learned to play along with chords and play the chord notes and nothing sounds like music. Chord progressions sound like chord progressions, not like music. For me, music has a melody, rhythm, movement, a progress, a development and an ending. It goes somewhere, it tells a story. Improv furthers that story and builds on it. If it doesn't it is just noodling around on notes that don't clash with what else is going on. Which is what most stuff for decades has sounded like. And then there is the free stuff. Which doesn't sound like music to me.

Now I near someone say, man, you just don't get it. We are pushing boundaries here. Okay. Push away. And people will sit there nodding like they like it. Do they?

@dale-proctor More photos are up now.

I don't think you'll notice much difference. I've played the Curry BC series for years. When I play a little less open mouthpiece for a while and then go back, I still don't notice anything other than the sound change. Even the Flip Oakes Extreme trumpet mouthpiece with a #11 bore doesn't really feel that different.

But then I'm pretty used to open mouthpieces.

Hate this format. TH is fine. Trombonechat is great. Cornet forum, well, that doesn't exist. Vintage cornet jazz really doesn't exist. Oh well. I'll keep limping along. Oh wait, flugabonechat doesn't exist either. Geez, what a world.

@oldschooleuph said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@richard-iii said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

I just had to dig out my Conn 77A. Sorry no picture. It is a standard configuration for a cornet. The 76A, which replaced the 77A is quite a different design. The tuning slide, I'm guessing, is on the bell tubing? Anybody know of any other Conn cornet with that feature?

There are many many examples of tuning at the bell tail from Pan-American to Puje, including all of the opera-glass tuning Conns (That front slide is for quick change only on those, not tuning). This Martin Imperial is another and even manages to still keep it on the right hand side of the horn rather than the left hand most think of as the back.

Oh my oh my. Gotta start looking for one of those. Yowza!

I just had to dig out my Conn 77A. Sorry no picture. It is a standard configuration for a cornet. The 76A, which replaced the 77A is quite a different design. The tuning slide, I'm guessing, is on the bell tubing? Anybody know of any other Conn cornet with that feature?

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

@richard-iii said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

Of course if there were a Cornet Boards, I wouldn't even be here.

Are you a facebook user?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1514385745525221/about

Thanks. Already a member. Just a little light in the wilderness for cornet lovers.

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

@richard-iii said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:
And one of the reasons there isn't more interest in this thread is that most people aren't interested in things other than trumpets on these sites.

Funny thing to find on a trumpet forum.

Good point. So why even have a cornet and flugelhorn category?

Of course if there were a Cornet Boards, I wouldn't even be here.

I just got a Blessing marching baritone. Much less expensive than the flugabone because it doesn't say flugeabone. Same configuration. Nice sound that can be baritone like or trombone like. Sort of like a flugelhorn with more smoke and depth.

And one of the reasons there isn't more interest in this thread is that most people aren't interested in things other than trumpets on these sites.

@J-Jericho said in Cornet blog:

https://www.themouthpiece.com/

That's one of the few with people still involved.

Here's a link to the Facebook entity. Hope it works:

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I notice that one of the least used subcategories on any forum site is the cornet. We cornet lovers are apparently not as common in the brass world. I see more action in the cornet category on Facebook.

I am joining a new community band as I have just moved. I emailed the director about creating a cornet section within the trumpet section. My old band director had discussed this repeatedly with me in the past and was in favor of it. But the new guy never even answered my email. Too bad.

I only see a 2011 date on that one. You see one later?

All those ideas work. But really what is the problem? Is it your fingers being stiff? Is it your brain being old and stiff? Is it your equipment not allowing the note to speak with minimal effort. Or is it something else? This will scare you. I was working on very technical and fast pieces this afternoon against a metronome. Worked through my mouthpiece collection until I found the one that allowed centered notes and fast articulations. I could then play the pieces at the correct speed. How about that? Equipment was the answer.

@Shifty said in Crickets?:

@Kehaulani said in Crickets?:

Hey Richard, I can't find a forum page on http://euphonium.com/index.html. Where do I look?

Perhaps he meant here: http://www.dwerden.com/forum/forum.php#.XhtsvshKhEY

Oops. Too many sites. That is it. Thanks. I have it bookmarked as just "euphonium."

Both here and TH has changed a bit. Here the contributions have stayed with the TM trend, frequently devolving into silliness. TH has had the influence of the very young crowd. Both means that I rarely find anything of interest. I spend a bit more time on Euphonium.com because that's what I'm working on now. But even there, how much do you want to read about this horn or that, this mouthpiece or that.

And then there is a cheaper idea. Buy this book:

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