Posts made by ROWUK

Staying in shape is a process. Currently we are replacing certain opportunities with others and this can affect our playing in a serious way.
When we play in large rooms (bandroom or concert venues), what reaches our ears is considerably different than playing with a mute or in a small practiceroom/bedroom.

We need to find larger spaces to practice in. That promotes tone and the servo loop Player/horn->room->ears/brain. We are creatures of habit. Improve our habits and our playing becomes more stable. Even playing outdoors is a BIG help s tone has an opportunity to develop.

Germany has a different division. E-Musik (Ernst/Serious) od U-Musik (Unterhaltung/Entertainment).

This example is U-Musik for me.

@Kehaulani said in New Player has entered the Game:

@ROWUK said in New Player has entered the Game:

@IrishTrumpeter
My son lives and works near Cork. If Covid settles down, I may visit this year.

Getting a Jones for some Guinness.

Actually, Guiness is Dublin. Jameson is Cork...

This is not an opportunity for me to rant, but here would be a shortlist of things that would make things more enjoyable in my opinion:

1. Threads that stay on topic - splitting threads when they get off topic.
2. an end to the "class clown" posts in many threads. I do not get the humor.
3. Method/process instead of opinion - thinking and posting about how we got to a decision is more important to me than throwing up on the music stand!
4. The ability to criticize without starting a war. I really believe in challenging beliefs (even my own).
5. I often get the feeling that certain members should be asking questions instead of making statements. It is hard to put that in print without dropping a bomb.

I would like to see some true "in thread tutorship". Maybe even restricted to 2 people! That requires a willing, thoughtful student and a teacher with their heart in the right place. When someone comes here to visit and 10 people pile on (many perhaps not even qualified), it is overwhelming. At TrumpetMaster, several of us did this by PM to keep the Riff-Raff out.

Serious pimping of trumpets (not eye candy) is something that we occasionally get to see - but without objective reviews (except for Ivan).

@IrishTrumpeter
My son lives and works near Cork. If Covid settles down, I may visit this year.

I have no specific preference, it just has to be artistically rewarding and not "demo music".

Here are a couple of my wood projects:
Cherry

Oak

Baltic Birch Plywood (the horns are fibreglass)

Username, if you live in Germany, get in contact with me. I live near Frankfurt/Main and we could go through all of the motions BEFORE you decide in which direction to go. It makes no sense to "import" a trumpet if you are just getting started. Germany has enough instruments available with no customs issues.

@Trumpetsplus: the resonance enhancers are a simple way to non invasively try something out. The benefits are certainly better than heavy caps for most instruments that I have tried them on. They have an effect similar to putting supports between the leadpipe and valve 1 and 3 instead of only on #2.

Most of the time, the pimps simply demonstrate that the owner had no process for picking the right horn in the first place. If they did, generally they can find one that does what its supposed to without any pimp. For instance, they buy a Bach 180 model, but do not like that much "core", so they unbalance the design with a pimp, normally making something worse for every thing that is viewed as "positive".

I can't count how many Bach owners drilled out the throat of their mouthpiece to "fix" something that was not broken - or to compensate for something that was not right instead of fixing it.

Is this innovation? Haven‘t we been doing stuff like this for a long while? There is more of it maybe than in the past, but innovative? I don‘t think so. It is fun!

If you are looking for decent jazz radio, there are a couple of decent quality free internet radio stations:
http://stream.psychomed.gr/webstream jazz.html
http://radio.linnrecords.com/index2.html
https://radio.nrk.no/direkte/jazz

@barliman2001 said in Did something change?:

@ROWUK I agree with you that TB has not yet reached the kind of wealth of information that TM had... but then, many old TM members did not switch to TB when TM suddenly went dead.

I do not think that the problem is number of members. What bothers me is who posts why. I do not share the sense of humor of others and having an opinion just because we can is not always a good reason to torpedo threads. I am convinced that many think that they are funny and do not even realize the damage that they do. Sometimes just keeping a thread serious would be a great course of action. The NY Phil controversy is a good example. What torpedoed it had nothing to do with the charge or the aftermath. The second thread was simply embarassing.

I am sure the quiet is just temporary...

A contentious thread got locked down, a second one was started - but immediately reduced to a very low level bickering that had nothing to do with the original theme. That second thread was also locked down. I have no indication if any resolution was attempted by PM before the first or second lockdown. If I was new here, I would just leave. I stay because there are some old friends, unfortunately not because of the "content".

I continue to see reasons why I do not post much in any trumpet forums anymore. The threads get way off track, the clowns inject "junk", the value add for new members is teaching them to find content in a lot of wasted bits. Kind of like panning for gold...

I personally never agree with the "lowest common denominator" type of decisions. Something currently very relevant to society in general happened at the New York Philharmonic. It was clear that a thread like this would draw a great variety of responses.

If a member gets out of line (for instance sexually explicit, lies, politics), I would expect a PM from a moderator to that person, perhaps even a short vacation for those not willing to be part of the family, but not locking the whole thread down unless there was a reason. I looked at the thread, do not see anything requiring it to be locked down. If someone has trouble with topics like this, just don't go there. I never really got into TH for this very reason: snipers and trigger happy moderators. I was accused of this at TrumpetMaster, but seldom got any decent feedback when I offered my perspective (even by PM). I basically came to the realization that many were not even interested in learning. They are only looking for a venue and some others to agree.

I think that this is an area where Trumpetboards.com can and should grow. If we can't discuss difficult things, what is the justification for another forum like the rest?

I officially disagree with the decision to lock down the thread. I consider shutting something down because "my question was answered" also to be a very "weak" comment and probably not completely true. It is obvious to me that the question was only partly answered and the admin simply did not want to see the rest on line.

The issue is a big deal (2 premiere players were "fired" because of it) and the thread is a big deal as we know enough to discuss the legalities, how decisions are made and what type of recourse someone charged has. In this case, both players were reinstated, happy end? I think not. We will see if they decide to stay or not.

I disagree with the orchestras/operas "right" to dismiss without due process. A private investigator is NOT due process! The organization does have a right to give someone an extended "vacation" until charges are filed, heard and a court of law has made a decision against the person. It seems to me that "Me Too" is overstepping the basic tenant of innocent until proven guilty.

It is clear to me that no president of any orchestra wants to be charged with "not having done enough". That is the same BS that cause politicians to overreact over a lot of difficult things.

Just like with the trumpet, there is no easy solution for a difficult issue. Spinelessness is just as bad as sexual harassment. In my world, it does not matter who tells the lies.

Perfect pitch is a curse not a blessing. If you have perfect pitch A=440, what happens when the orchestra tunes to 441, 442, 445? What happens when playing outdoors and the pitch drops to A=438, 435? What about if you are playing in any historical pitch (A=415, 420/430).

This whole thread is just like every other one where somebody thinks that they are on to something and are completely blinded to reality. The long repetitive posts are a sure giveaway.

I posted this once before - if there was ANY killer system, where are all of the killer players using it? All of the blah, blah about teeth, lips may work for a "few" but a disciple is usually the WORST person to have. They simply lack the holistic view of the world as it is.

The biggest joke is the so called opposition to the method. Just because we do not believe "Sound Advice" does not mean that we discredit Stevens or Costello. I generally oppose zealots of any color. Just let him have his rant on this thread. I really see nothing to discuss.

Get well soon!

@Kehaulani

@Kehaulani said in Change in paradigm?:

When I started reading this thread and it clumped trumpet technology/sound in a 50 year grouping, my mindset was as if I was reading about something historical, antique, distant past. Then I realized that last 50 year clump wasn't in the historic, distant past. It was within my lifetime!

I most certainly agree! I started playing in 1966 over 50 years ago.

Unfortunately, we only have audio documentation for the last 100 years or so. The instruments in museums and in the hands of very gifted players however are showing the 50 year turnover on style/construction/technical possibilities. I do not have instruments from every epoque, but I have natural trumpets from the Rennaissance, early baroque, late baroque and classical periods. I have valved instruments from around 1880 to very modern Monette. Even the approach to playing these instruments is different.