Posts made by Shifty

@Kehaulani said in Its Been an Age Long Requirement But How Many Can Do It?:

Man, why do some of you guys have to get abrasive, emotional and crude? Is it really that hard to get your points across and be respectful at the same time?

Amen.

@Dr-Mark said in Its Been an Age Long Requirement But How Many Can Do It?:

On a side note, why the hell do you even comment if its something you are not interested in? Here's your words; " I don’t really care that I can’t do it." Then why comment unless you wish to be a turd stirrer?

So we're not allowed to comment unless it's to say we agree with every point made by Dr Mark?

@Dr-Mark said in Please Help Me Understand Something (Pt 2):

Did you think for a moment that people would not investigate "why" they were dismissed?

There's a big difference between "investigation" and "speculation." In the locked thread you wrote:

@Dr-Mark said in Please Help Me Understand Something:

Like I said in a previous post, these guys could have easily been doing things that were acceptable in the privacy of their homes but not on the top of a timpani or in the back row of symphony hall. My guess? the two were caught being a little too intimate in the wrong setting. They wouldn't be the first pair to grab an afternoon delight at work and certainly not the first couple (if that is the case) to get called on the carpet by management for being a little to amorous at work. A lot of people (unfortunately) have a problem with homosexuality. For all we know, principal oboist, Liang Wang, and associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey are a couple.

Thereafter, Administrator politely asked that we please not speculate on the nature of what happened, but you continued to do so. He was right in locking the thread for that reason alone, and doesn't deserve your further "speculation" as to his motive.

Nothing relating to trumpets, but if life is too calm under stay-at-home orders, here's a bit of manufactured excitement:

@administrator said in Lifetime quest finally paying off!:

I feel like this thread has gone off the rails...do I need to lock it again?

Please do.

1903 Connqueror.

@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.