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We are creatures of habit and I firmly believe that THIS is the #1 reason for mouthpiece safaris not working.
I believe that we need MONTHS to determine if a mouthpiece is good for us. The process is called acclimation. We must practice, adapt and perform to cover our use cases.

My personal practice is, and has always been to cold turkey switch and stick with the "new" for at least 2 months - no switching back to the original. After that two - three months, I retry the original and note the differences. My last switch was in 1996.

What would be the purpose? To rename Trumpetboards? To get any traffic that might still be looking for TrumpetMaster?

I wrote e'mails to admins and hosters, researched the blocking of the site but got no answers. I know of a couple of legal actions that fizzled out but nothing that would have locked the site down.

I think that you have done an admirable job giving the orphaned a home. Admins are clear about their actions and are willing to "discuss" decisions. I do have the impression that the troublemakers did not migrate.

I see no use for the domain if we can not restore content.

Playing any given tone is the process of our air pressure being able to "blow apart" the lips. If we can't play low notes, the usual situation is that the lips are pressed too tightly together. We can not just intellectually tell our facial muscles to "relax". Playing the trumpet is fine motor activity that needs many low impact repetitions to create muscle memory.

In my "circle of breath" (which is only a collection of things from others with my individual visualisation), I mention exhaling into the note. That is what is needed here. Tonguing the note adds a burst of air pressure to kick start the tone and that is NOT A GOOD THING at this stage. We should only use the tongue to "shape" the beginning of a tone (articulate). We can only start to shape when we have "tone in the first place".

Exhale into the long tones.

In learning to play the trumpet, we can learn from AI techniques - just not as quickly.
What does AI do? It takes the established base of facts (entered by whoever is "responsible" - the facts can be limited in scope or very broad depending on who is feeding the database)and calculates on the base of documented success with those facts, what steps offer fastest results.
This is what also happens with a good student teacher relationship - with perhaps not as broad of an experience base. The teachers "large" experience base is applied to the student.

The problem is the relationship between the student and AI or student and teacher. At the end of the day, the student must understand and be motivated by the "facts" presented - regardless of where they are from.

In my world, no one ever "taught" talent, or even patience. The patient and talented person that had the good luck of having a qualified, patient and motivating tutor had higher odds. I do not believe that the odds change when the tutor is AI. Only access to the qualified part is possibly enabled. Perhaps the technical aspects could be sorted more quickly with AI. That could possibly lead to more motivation, but equally possible could replace "musical" with "technically spectacular". We see this happening in many areas of art like latin or standard dancing for instance. Live bands do not play during the competition - everything is choreographed to a CD recording.

@trumpetb Artificial has "nothing" to do with the human state. What we learn is real. Please do not refer to AI as a "human" experience or trait.
The problem with AI is that there is no judgement. We have seen for instance, what happens to automated trading on the stock exchange floors. We also see that our credit ratings are based on the streets that we live on (not always our own credit worthiness).
What we also see is the strong tendency to believe a machine before a person. Manufacturing has been revolutionised by putting people out of work. There is more coming. Unfortunately, societies largest problem all over the world is having enough work for the populace.

Thomas Sowell has a very applicable quote:
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."

It should be very clear to you that machines will never have to pay any price.

Those pushing AI forward do not have any goals of making life better for everyone - the goal is to make life better for those that can afford to play the game. We may not be able to stop it, but we certainly must vote for politicians that have OUR well being at heart instead to the populist scum from both sides of the aisle. How easily manipulated we and those ruling can be was very recently demonstrated for the whole world to see. An entire congress held hostage for several days by 19 populists. No common denominator. No effort for compromise. 19 terrorists held 400 congressmen hostage until their agenda got pushed through. With AI, it can be the same issue as AI can calculate how little is necessary to take future elections hostage. Our laws and control instances are not even close to ready.

Just imagine the AI run across twitter tweets affecting our ability to get a Tesla and what our individual configuration would be limited to. Add Alexa, Siri to the mix. Maybe we will not even be employable based on what was heard online. There is plenty to be concerned about!

@barliman2001 my vacation this year is especially taxed. I will be in the Waldkraiburg (the home of Miraphone) area from 5-15 August and hope to catch him at his shop on one of my free days. I have some projects planned for the "near" future.

Blueprinting often consists of taking the instrument completely apart, unsoldering everything and reassembling with no "tension".

Changing the number and position of the braces and adding weight to specific parts is a big part of what I did. I also have a tuning bell and changed the lead pipe to a cut down Bach 7. The bell braces are on rails.

@barliman2001 https://www3.nd.edu/~dstowe/orchestra/16-17_parts/Elgar-Enigma.tpt-tbn-transp.pdf

Here are parts in Bb from the Lucks library.

@administrator There are fixes for the intonation issues on Bach C Trumpets. My mid '70s 229 CL is VERY in tune. No alternate fingerings needed. My modifications were extensive.

Ivan from Jaeger trumpets visited a while back. He also knows what to do. We had a great time playing duets. I still have not managed to visit him in south Germany yet, but I will be in his area this summer and will make the effort.

@administrator The Monette Raja C is unlike either.

my Bach 229L C has a very even tone over the whole range with the typical Bach core. The only real issue is that there is a specific volume where the instrument jumps from "creamy" to "screaming". This volume is "loud" but NOT consistent over all of the registers. When I practice repertory with the Bach, I target this issue to prevent accidentally becoming too obnoxious on stage.

My Heckel rotary Bb has a dark and resonant low register, a very clear and articulate midrange and a bright high register. The sound holds together at any volume.

The Monette is a completely different animal. It can be played with core to fuzzy, dark to bright anywhere in all of the registers. Above all however is the "thickness" of the tone that creates more sum and difference (resultant) tones with other instruments than any other of my horns. I would say that it is more colourful BUT puts more pressure on the second trumpet to blend.

The most fun is when in a section with multiple heavy Monette horns. I have 2 ensembles with this state. Life is easiest there.

The change in timbre is based on the cylindrical to tapered proportions as well as the specific partial being played.
Many modern piston trumpets have been homogenised for a generally even tone. Rotary trumpets are not so "homogenised" and even a change in register creates a change in tone. Composers like Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss and Wagner even composed for the unhomogenised state.

There is no time restriction for talent. Any quality can crop up from any country at any time. No one really can plan birth, experience and opportunity. Irrelevant question.

I think that everyone that makes "improvisation" a requirement to be a great trumpeter does not understand what "greatness" truly is!

There are many "strengths" that qualify for greatness. I do not think that Bud Herseth was a lesser trumpeter just because he did not perform combo gigs. I do not think that Miles is greater just because he improvises.

Greatness in my world comes from exceptional performance, preferably over a long time. Exceptional performance very much can be "only" being the solo trumpet in a symphony orchestra - a leader musically and dynamically (Bud Herseth, Bill Vacchiano as two examples). Exceptional performance can also be what Maynard did - keeping a live band afloat in the most difficult of times and inspiring generations of musicians that played in his band. Exceptional performance can be Pops - creating the base for many musical things taken for granted today. Exceptional performance can be Bachs own Gottfried Reiche - who inspired Bach to create some of the most awesome trumpet parts ever written.

I very much do agree that there are many fine but mediocre performances due to the lack of understanding the genre. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra recently released a Gabrieli recording that is an example of such playing. Great players missing the point - and proving that there are modern groups of musicians that offer the same or less than the Philadelphia/Cleveland/Chicago recording from the 1960s.

I can very much appreciate what "non improvisors" have to make them great. I can also appreciate those dedicated to period style and performance practices (in Jazz, Commercial or classical genres). I do not understand the need to limit the term "great" to artificial requirements submitted by those not anywhere near greatness.

This is the soprano low F-Trumpet that I am talking about:

It takes a "standard" Bb trumpet mouthpiece, preferably with a deep cup. The historic mouthpiece often had a thin "cookie cutter" rim.

Don't worry about me or my behavior. There are those members that I just will no longer engage. They were difficult at TrumpetMaster and certainly have not improved here. Sometimes I wish that there was a member or theme block feature like on Facebook.

I am not sure that moderating or policing produces different results. The truly technical blogs define moderating as submitting text and after approval of the moderation team, the text is published for others to see. This requires a team to make judgements about everything. Not really suitable for us here.

Moderation can also be moderators interacting with members - publicly or behind the scenes through PM.

Policing is after the fact. The damage is done, but what damage is that (other than members leaving)? Locking threads leaves the content for everyone in the future to read and draw opinions upon. I only wish that there was a solution to make stuff more easily searchable.

I firmly believe that the problem is the sense of "protection" behind a keyboard. Much of what is posted would NEVER be said face to face.

I am in full support of Elmar.

My recipe is being ready when luck comes by my way.

One has to ask where the bot has collected all of its "wisdom". For that hand, the same could apply to real people that are active on social networks.

@dr-go Your post is not even worth a comment.

One of the things that drives me nuts are members with an "absolute" opinion that is contrary to practice throughout the whole world. You have disqualified yourself again.

Mr. Vizzutti was a year ahead of me at Eastman in the 1970s. He is entitled to his opinions, just like everyone else. He is far from an "average" talent and what works for him is not necessarily a recipe for anyone else.

The joke as far as I am concerned is the Buzz=bad. There is simply too many successful players using it to ignore. That does NOT make buzzing universally good or bad. It certainly does warrant research. It also warrants civil behavior - one of Elmars major concerns.

I am out. I do not feed the trolls - with or without a Dr title!

The F trumpet is not popular because of one reason: security. That is the main reason for the ever shorter instruments most used today. Our standard Bb trumpet today used to be called the "high Bb trumpet" by the F trumpet players. They criticised the smaller horns for their "tone".

My F trumpet is in tune. Due to its length however, it does not blend in a section of modern Bb trumpets. The tone is dramatically different.

Perhaps this is the "wrong place" for this comment, but it certainly fits with Elmars caution.

I see basically 4 reasons why people interact online:

1. to learn
2. to teach
3. to socialize
4. to argue

The first 3 are easily identified and generally lead to community development. The 4th is not always as clear cut as we would like - especially because people of various levels of development do not use or understand the use of certain words. Additionally there are the internet snipers that post nothing except that a previously stated position is "all wrong" - but offer no contrary position. Finally there is the academic arguer that plays devils advocate regardless of the position. At the end of the day, only the fourth reason causes any reason for concern. At TrumpetMaster, putting a user (or users) on a temporary vacation after adequate warnings solved the problem. The issue for me is transparency.
In this particular thread we have the first 3 reasons in abundance. If someone were to come and generally trash buzzing or trash not buzzing (like perhaps Mr. Vizzutti did), we would have adequate proof that they have left the realm of reality. The admin first reaction could be a PM warning. Repeated discourse would lead to escalation management.
If someone makes an 8 page post like a doctoral thesis, it would be better placed outside of the thread but with a link.

The biggest problem with the human state is its inconsistency. If any teacher had embouchure, range, technique, tone and musicality solved, there would be a lot more spectacular players. Where are they? I believe that no teacher has all of the corners covered and that is why we can accept that there are multiple possibilities to manipulate our own states - making each path as unique as the person following it.

Now, we could define a theme: "Most favorable practices" that would apply to a lot of use cases. Breathing exercises, scales, intervals, patterns, longtones, slurs all belong in this group. Then we could create the theme "warmup" which certainly will be more diverse than the above (and in my view, buzzing of any type belongs here). Warmup is different than most favorable practice as there is not universal acceptance to what the word means and represents.