Posts made by Seth of Lagos

@chelpres said in Favorite Music:

@Seth-of-Lagos Saw E.C "attempt" to play Layla in Melbourne, Australia in 1975. Perhaps not at his physical best that night, but at least I got to see him. As a matter of interest, who was the dude giving percussionists a bad name?He at least provided light entertainment for the rest of the band. Never the less, what a line up.
Regards,Tom

Ray Cooper (once of Maynard's band, currently Elton John). I suspect a few of them had overdone the Harpic a bit before that show...

Just to give you something to google, I was raised in the wapentake of Ainsty (an stiga = 'narrow path' in Old English). A bit awkward to explain so I usually say I'm from York, which is not entirely a lie.

I've spent the last twenty years in Lagos, Nigeria, though we're building our retirement home in Owerri over in the east of the country.

Having said that, Mrs Seth and I are currently staying in our son's apartment in Kuala Lumpur. And Mrs Seth likes it here. So maybe .... who knows.

@GeorgeB said in Favorite Music:

I thought I knew most of Louis Armstrong's work but neal085's post of We Have All The Time In The World piqued my interest so I did some research on it. It was released in 1969 on a 45rpm single ( Pretty Little Missy on the flip side ) and was the featured song in the James Bond ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE film, one of the few Bond films I missed seeing.

This was sort of a come back for Louis who had been seriously ill for some time and was unable to work much. Most importantly, this apparently was the last time he played his trumpet in a recording studio ( 2 years later he would die of a heart attack ).

Being released as a single on 45 without much pomp and ceremony was probably the reason I was unaware of the song.

The song was better known in Britain. I've always found it very moving since time was one thing Louis didn't have much left of.

And written by that slightly more famous son of York, John Barry of course.

@moshe said in "Star Trek Next Generation":

Captain Jean-Luc Picard had a French name but a British accent,
and 500 years in the future there still was no cure for baldness?

Morris / moshe

Curiously, over 2,000 years ago, he was Roman, had a full head of hair, and spoke Latin with an impeccable English accent.

Youtube Video – [44:05..]

By coincidence, I've been rewatching this series after 40-odd years. It also stars Patrick Stewart's great friend Brian Blessed (as Augustus) who likewise had to ditch his broad Yorkshire accent to get acting work with the BBC in particular.

I raised my family only a little down Leeds road from where Patrick Stewart was brought up, and many saturdays my son would report seeing 'Captain Jean-Luc' in the stands watching Huddersfield Town.

Would have loved to see him say

"Ayup, Geordi! Mek it 'appen!"

Just some hacks jamming away an evening ...

A note of caution about about the Wild Thing first slide. The slide inner is constructed of very thin tube and it is extremely easy to distort or otherwise damage it. I was having some issues with the slide snagging in closed position (you do need it for those Es and As) and thought it might be a good idea to deburr the inner ends on a wine cork. I wasn't careful enough and it was the devil's own job to get the inner near true again. It's not quite as snaggy as it used to be, but I generally now play Es and As with third which is one solution at least.

Never had any issue with the F. Could you be subconsciously lifting the F a bit to compensate for the sharp notes around it (D, E, A)? I found that practising long tones over drones helped a lot with finding the sweet spot (not just unison - work the fifths and major thirds too and listen for the sum and difference tones to fall in tune).

@BigDub

Mrs Seth saw our flight reservations for Kuala Lumpur the other day, and became quite anxious about the baggage allowance:

"45 kg / person included"

Comments based on past ownership of a Holton MF st307, Wild Thing, Inderbinen Alpha C trumpet and a good blow through a Schilke s22 (which only confirmed what I felt about the other instruments).

The first time I switched from a standard bore instrument, and attempted to play it as I would the standard bore, it was an awful lot louder and pulled significantly more air. Just as the mythology says. But after a while, I wised up and eased off on the oral pressure to better match the volume of the standard (then as now, the Yamaha 6335H II). The physics tells me they should still draw a little more air for a given note, but not so much as I could notice the difference. The difference I did notice is that they became distinctly more mellow in sound (which those of you familiar with my postings will know is not a good thing in my books - I don't play cornet).

I rather unenthusiastically tried to brighten the sound with a smaller piece, but, as with J. Jericho's experience, ran into problems with mismatching between cup size, throat and bore resulting in a more 'strangled', less resonant sound. Not good.

Best compromise piece I have found is the Wick 4C, which has the added bonus of being a little less punishing on the lip than the birdbaths I used to play. But you do lose something of the full force of these instruments played through a proportionally large throat. Hypothetical anyway - I just can't do that anymore.

What I ended up doing is splitting my repertoire. The stuff which called for a brighter sound like baroque classics etc, I played on the ML Yamaha or Severinsen - the more mellow (or just louder) stuff - I played on the Wild Thing.

I do find the Wild Thing remarkably easy to play. Ideal student trumpet in my view. And that is not a criticism - just an observation based on playing it for nearly 20 years. When I'm working on tonguing and flexibility, I reach immediately for the Wild Thing because that's the instrument I'll crack the problem with. But I don't think this has much if anything to do with bore size - more the resonant design. The stronger slotting instruments like the Yamaha are for me much less helpful in problem solving. They're maybe more for those whose technical issues are behind them. But I digress.

@Kujo20 said in And I thought we were exposed playing the Trumpet:

Schlub is in the USA now...website hasn’t really been updated for a few years.

Thought as much. Thanks anyway.

Thanks, Guys.

As Barliman says, things have become a little hectic over here, but I hope to drop in from time to time and provide some more 'unique input'!

While I'm here, Mrs Seth and I are in Kuala Lumpur next month visiting family, and I was wondering if Schlub Brass Works was still going in Singapore. The web site is a little ambiguous ...

... and Mrs Seth hasn;t had any new jewellery for a while.

@administrator

Pretty impressive intonation I thought .......

..... and then I heard David Bruce explain what's really going on here.

Wow!

@barliman2001

I recognise a few familiar names here.