Posts made by Shifty

@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

@Kehaulani said in What Is Your Favorite Version of the National Anthem?:

As an aside, many of the interpretations I hear at major sporting events make me want to puke.

Like this version?

@Kehaulani said in Mahler’s 5th:

I was told long ago to always know the words to a song before you play it. It's simple. Know what the song is about.

There's an often-repeated story about the great Ben Webster. On a gig, in the middle of a solo, he suddenly stopped playing altogether. Someone later asked him what happened. Webster said: "I forgot the words."

@Kehaulani said in Structure of the Trumpet by Yamaha:

Well spake. I used to think that if you couldn't understand me, that was your problem and showed your lack of education. Not my fault. Why should I stoop to your level? I took an Air Force course for officers in communication. Very eye opening for me.

One of the first things I was taught was to consider your goal. Was it to show how much education you have or to get your listener to do something you need them to do? If you want the listener to understand and follow your instructions then put the words in the same context that the other person uses and will understand.

I remember punch lines, but often forget the joke/story that leads to it. So I have to make up a story that leads to the punch line. Example (using Kehaulani's Air Force setting):

The Lt was giving a briefing to the old Colonel. The Colonel asked a question and the Lt responded that the answer was pretty technical, so the old fart might not understand it. The Colonel said "Lieutenant, I can understand anything you can explain."

This was posted on the oTHer forum almost 15 years ago, and the shoe fits (THere) pretty well:

Post Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb?

1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs
1 to move it to the Lighting section
2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section
7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs
5 to flame the spell checkers
3 to correct spelling/grammar flames
6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"
15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct
19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum
11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum
36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty
7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs
4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL's
3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group
13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too"
5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy
4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"
13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs"
1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.

And, of course:

You forgot about the 12 who will post about how much better the light was from bulbs made in the 50's and extol the virtues of NOS (New Old Stock) bulbs.

I wouldn't have been aware of the thread, but some lurker responded to it today.

Glad Trumpetboards is refreshingly different

@Jolter said in Jazz Song #1 - A Night In Tunisia:

I thought it was an instrumental tune. Who wrote the lyrics, and who recorded them?

https://www.jazziz.com/a-short-history-of-a-night-in-tunisia-dizzy-gillespie-1942/

@Dr-Mark said in What about non-trumpet Brass players:

What should be the first topic?
Range, sound, endurance, sight reading, articulation, trumpet care, improvisation, ensemble playing, how to approach Bach, types of trumpets, brands of trumpets, mouthpieces, job opportunities, how to prepare for an audition, trumpet injuries, breathing, posture, mental approach to trumpet, were should we start?

That'd be perfect, Dr-Mark. Can you whip up something on all of those by tomorrow?

Seriously though -- the mental approach to trumpet would be novel; not just rehashing old topics from oTHer forums.

Born and raised in Pennsylvania. The Air Force took me to Texas, Alaska, Michigan (UP), Florida, Ohio, Korea and Arizona. We've been desert rats for 31 years now, so I guess we're here to stay.

@Kehaulani said in "Star Trek Next Generation":

Probably the weirdest accent I heard, was a guy from Cuba who was raised in Alabama. I defied anyone to identify that one.

I can hear it now: "Y'all got some 'splainin' to do, Lucy."

@flugelgirl said in "Star Trek Next Generation":

He could have been educated at Oxford. I’ve known some folks whose first language was not English that picked up the accent of the place they studied English in - for example a Polish girl with a Canadian accent.

Ok, this is a long story but on topic, I think.

I went through USAF pilot training in 1972, and half of our class was from Germany (joint training). Lt Herb Hoenig was a German who spoke English with a British accent. His English teacher was British, as was his wife. The wife, BTW, became pregnant just in time to give birth in the US to their son.

Fast forward 30 years. I was working as a contract F-16 instructor. One of my coworkers came into the office with a puzzled look. He had just given the first lesson to a new class that included a German Exchange pilot. He said it was the strangest thing -- the guy had a British accent.

I asked "his name wasn't by any chance Hoenig, was it?"

Looking even more puzzled, he replied "how did you know?"

I had a lot of fun with the younger Hoenig (callsign "Limey"), including showing him a picture of his mom, a few weeks before his birth, at a party with a lampshade on her head.

@Kehaulani said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:

@Kehaulani said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:

I've read a bunch of threads on this and they all devolve into other factors.

Like I said.

Albert Einstein actually said “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.”

What he meant was "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

@L-A-Horn said in Best Off-brand Trumpets:

Alright, what do you consider the highest value trumpet with the lowest price?

You've posed a question in a way that it can't be answered. The highest value trumpet will certainly not have the lowest price.

If you could quantify what you mean by "value" (fit/finish, reliability, durability, intonation, response, etc) you could divide by price and find the best bang for the buck.

You'd need to define each parameter associated with value, find a way to evaluate it quantitatively, and give it a weight relative to the other parameters. You can't optimize without defining your criterion for optimality.

@administrator said in Andrea Motis, Moanin:

Gosh, she looks like she is 14. Some people have all the talent, though.

I believe she was an old lady of 20 for that performance. But you can find her on Youtube at 14 and even younger. Joan Chamorro runs a great program in Barcelona.

@Kehaulani said in King Liberty:

Diverting. I'm addressing the "why" question, which was posted by the post's originator.

Sorry, I don't see a "why" in the OP. And I thought he was referring to the "Instruments Discussion/Historical and Collector's Items" forum, not TrumpetBoards in general.

@Kehaulani said in King Liberty:

This post is, for me, exactly why this "new forum isn't exactly taking off" - jokes and gear . . and pretty pictures.

If people want a lounge type format, that's fine. I'm just making a contrast. Where's the music? I want to learn and discuss things about music, not peripheral stuff.

I recently got frustrated and decided to just go back to Sax on the Web. It has it's fair share of equipment stuff, too, but it's also balanced with more meaty musical topics, and it applies to music, in general, not just sax players.

Well, this post is in the "Instruments Discussion/Historical & Collector's Items" forum, so it seems totally appropriate. Certainly not "Lounge" material. I would expect to find the music in the "Music Discussion" forum.

@N1684T said in How about a forum for Curio and Relic horns?:

I can't believe no one ripped me for watching such a cheesy movie;)

On the contrary. My recent retirement has provided me the time to make up for having missed out on a great deal of culture. I watched Buckaroo Banzai for the first time yesterday. Loved every minute of it

@Kehaulani said in How do you feel about vibrato?:

Well, I don't believe there is. There must be historical commentaries on vibrato performance practices of their time. Assumingly, no one on this board knows about them. That ignorance (not meant condescendenly, I don't know, either) does not trump historical sources and research.

https://repository.asu.edu/attachments/93464/content//tmp/package-k2tMBa/Verville_asu_0010E_11489.pdf

https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/VibratoWars-1.pdf

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1105&context=ppr

http://www.classicstoday.com/features/ClassicsToday-Vibrato.pdf

@Seth-of-Lagos
Welcome aboard, Seth. You've been missed.

@administrator
They cost a lot more than $400.

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