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Julian is the real thing - and a great guy too! I attended a master class with him in charge last year. We have one planned for this year, let us wait and see if the Covid 19 embouchure starts blocking double Cs...

Time to clean up your websites. Nothing that demonstrates a superior attitude more than keeping the creative juices flowing. I can imagine that people stuck at home would spend more time online. It would be a good thing to have a big chunk of that time.

So, it is time for an update. I still have the "predentures" but the healing is far enough along that I get good fitting ones on Thursday. I am getting 30-60 minutes per day on the trumpet and my range is pretty good again (low f# to g an octave above the staff). The ill fitting dentures do slip from time to time and then I have to stop, push them back into place and start over. Double and triple tonguing do move the dentures around, so that is something that I only do in the middle register. Due to the Corona virus, all my gigs before Easter are cancelled. My trumpet teacher Heinz Zickler turns 100 next week and he is still kicking strong! We hope to be able to celebrate.

So, I guess the moral of the story is that we are what we repeatedly do. Jumping right back in was a good thing and not caring about what works, just getting started and sticking with it pay off. I still have a way to go with the fresh dentures coming, but if they fit better, that can only be good.

@administrator Do we want to start a thread about trumpeters playbacks?

I will keep this thread alive as a personal diary. I am not "looking" for advice, criticism or praise but those that have been through this probably have some additional stuff. Maybe we can keep the content level high to make it easier in the future to find stuff?

Step one was to pull teeth, step two is repair the jaw and after that is done and solid, the final step will be implanting anchors to hold the dentures solidly in place. This could be a year of updates. I do not recommend letting anyone smash the trumpet into your face... The trumpet was repaired far more quickly!

Well, step one happened on Monday. All the teeth on my lower jaw were removed and I got "dentures". No sutures were necessary even although one wisdom tooth was impacted.

The instructions from the doc were to leave the dentures in for 24 hours (to keep the tongue out of the sockets). Robin was a good boy. Antibiotics and Novaminsulfon pain relievers kept everything manageable. Talking is a major challenge as the tongue does not know where to go. I slept sitting up - following instructions. Porridge for breakfast, soups for lunch and dinner.

Yesterday (Tuesday) was just a maintenance day, I tired quickly and there was still a bit of bleeding. Took my antibiotics and only a pain reliever before bed. Talking is still challenged. I was able to sleep laying down. Porridge with berries for breakfast, soups for lunch and dinner.

Today, Wednesday was actually pretty good. No pain relievers needed. Still get tired faster than usual. Have trouble with all of the "S" consonants needed in english and german - lots of sibillance - sounds like a really cheap stereo! Most of the wounds are closed and there was no bleeding worth mentioning - so I pulled out my C-trumpet and played 30 minutes of easy long tones and lip slurs. Even with the dentures, everything still worked. My tone had a bit of air - but always does when I take 2 days off. Still, the only food that I can eat is minced very fine so it is immediately "swallowable". I am rinsing with salt water a couple of times per day. The dentures are staying remarkably in place but are too high on the left side. Just waiting for the swelling to go down so that adjustment makes sense. Porridge for breakfast, soups for lunch and dinner. I tried cutting up some sausages for the soup, but was not successful the first time around - they were not small enough to swallow directly. A mincer solved the problem but the sausage taste was too diluted by the soup. Probably should not have tried.

The rest of the day I spent voicing some new horns for my stereo!

Got pretty close but counter tenors still sound like crap. Well, tomorrow is also a day and I'll see how my ears work.

My next dental appointment is Monday to get the dentures adjusted. After that, I go back to work. Next concert series in 3 weeks...

As I decide on my techs and use them repeatedly, I would normally check the horn when picking up and discuss whatever immediately. Repeat business is the argument that ALWAYS gets attention. In the case that you do NOT have a current relationship with this tech, try to visit him in person. You mentioned relaquering. Depending on the lacquer, a touch up may be just fine. There are magicians out there!

The thread owner needs to clear some stuff up. Nothing makes sense.

@Kehaulani Yes, it is chicken and egg BUT you can have your cake and eat it too! I have a student with a reading deficiency. They can read a single line, but to move to the second line is almost impossible. We solved the issue by memorizing the last measure or two on one line and the first on the next. Confidence soars, reading quality goes up!

@GeorgeB For things at the limit of what I can play (recently 1st trumpet in the orchestra version of Rimsky-Korsakovs Scheherezade), my standard take is to completely memorize the difficult licks. Once I have freed up my eyes, they do not slow my fingers or tongue down any more!

This was recorded at Chappell Studios in London in 1975. https://www.discogs.com/de/Anita-Kerr-Hallelujah-Brass/release/7530512

It was part of a series Hallelujah Brass, Woodwinds, Guitar and Voices. They were recorded for a Nashville company Word Records. I found no link between Herb Alpert and Word or Chappell. He had his own A&M label. Anita Kerr was signed by Warner and Word so I doubt that they worked together as there are no credits on any of the albums. Anita worked with Karl Garvin (Nashville) on trumpet on a 1971 production.

@Dr-GO And as I mentioned elsewhere, pigeons also have other things that stick...

As far as Barlimans experience in that playing venue, on stage we get lucky sometimes, sometimes we lose - not being able to hear anything... That can be from a "dead" sounding environment (playing outdoors or in a conference room), or a very live environment with 6 seconds of reverb or more.

The trick is to not play more loudly when we are unsure/insecure...

Everybody teaches themselves to play! A teacher can motivate and focus on things good for the player, but at the end of the day, it is the student that has to untangle what they have been told, sort it and apply it.

To become an expert, you need exceptional talent first - talent to keep your eye on the ball, talent to hear differences, talent to understand the differences and above all talent to know what we don't know.

I know that 2000-10000 purposeful repetitions gives us a "professional" level of repeatability for a specific task. I am not sure that we can assign hours however.

@stumac Phase is not what causes the frequency that we "hear". I find more evidence that the size and taper of the trumpet bell "amplify" frequencies starting in the second octave. An 1300 Hz horn is around 4.8" in diameter at the mouth according to horn theory... This would damp the fundamental which is below cutoff severely.

Did any of you ever notice that a trumpet is twice longer than for instance a soprano saxophone that plays at the same pitch? If we analyse the spectra of the trumpet, we see the fundamental but primarily “hear” the first overtone. With the saxophone or flute, we “hear” primarily the fundamental.

https://www.bacmusicshop.com/collection/?sort=featured

In the shop there are some horns with prices.

@Trumpetsplus said in Brass instruments are not pneumatic circuits:

@Dirk020 If one model actually had more resistance it just means that it was harder to get it into resonance. I am not trying to explain design principles. I am only hoping to point out information.

Or we simply have a harder time hearing ourselves and interpret that as a harder blow. Take that wonderful trumpet outdoors to an area with no buildings and playtest. It will normally be a lot more difficult even although the instrument and mouthpiece are exactly the same.