For those interested in Trumpet History, the following is the story of John Blanke, one of the more famous trumpeters of the Court of Henry VIII.
Posts made by SSmith1226
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John Blankeposted in Classical / Orchestral
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RE: Lawler C7 P s 119posted in Bb & C Trumpets
@bigdub said in Lawler C7 P s 119:
@kehaulani
Pretty sure there are horns with better intonation than others.
Otherwise we would all be playing Bundy's.
True?No, Mendini by Cecilio!!!
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RE: Jamie’s Trumpet Galleryposted in Lounge
@ca said in Jamie’s Trumpet Gallery:
@ssmith1226 Very cool sign. I have seen her website before. I love the concept of the shop. I am sure it is pricey, but only expensive and very nice horns are there. It is a curated shop. She has taken the time to make everything beautiful and elegant. Kudos to her for that. How about the 3% discount if you fly in to try horns!? Not the place to look for bargain basement stuff, but it would be fun to visit and meet her and check out the horns.
Her pricing seems very fair and competitive for the horns that she stocks. I’ve not seen any other brick snd morter store that carried new Inderbinen, Taylor, and DeCarbo horns among others. She also has an eclectic choice of gently used horns.
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RE: Jamie’s Trumpet Galleryposted in Lounge
@dale-proctor said in Jamie’s Trumpet Gallery:
Looks like a cornet on the trumpet player sign, though…lol
Cylindrical
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Jamie’s Trumpet Galleryposted in Lounge
The sign below it’s in the parking lot of a boutique trumpet shop called “Jamie’s Trumpet Gallery” in Melbourne, Florida. Jamie, who is. Jazz Trumpet player herself and superb vocalist, deals in high end trumpets and flugelhorns with an emphasis in horns used in Jazz. You will not find student horns there, or for that matter, Piccolo Trumpets. C Trumpets etc. Among the high end brands there you will find new Taylor Custom Trumpets and Flugelhorns, as well as Inderbinen, and some high end trumpets on consignment. Today I played Taylors, a Inderbinen Wood Flugelhorn, Schagerls, Monettes, Martins, Olds Mendez etc. There were many I didn’t play., including Benge, Bach, and Conn, etc.
The store is well worth visiting in person or on line. The web address is:https://jamiestrumpetgallery.com/
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RE: BlowDry Brass Systemposted in Bb & C Trumpets
@trumpetsplus said in BlowDry Brass System:
@ssmith1226 MAW valves when depressed and Rotary valves in both states present a sharp edge at the entrance to the chamber to anything flowing through. Conventional piston valves do not present this sharp edge.
Ivan,
Good to hear from you. I hope all is well at your new home in Germany!
The foam plug was sliced with “surgical precision” as if a curved scalpel went through it.
For those that have not seen MAW Valves, this is what one on my trumpet looks like.
I’m not sure whether the Rotor 4th Valve was the likely culprit vs the MAW Valves, although I am favoring the Rotor 4th Valve due to some increased resistance blowing the plug through this area vs the MAW Valves.
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BlowDry Brass Systemposted in Bb & C Trumpets
I recently started using ”BlowDry Brass” system at the end of my practice day. I started using this system after reading a recent discussion about it, I believe on this site. I have been using the same plug on one horn (Bach 37) until yesterday when started playing my Bach 72 and Lotus with a “Rapa 4th (rotor) valve”. The Lotus’s three piston valves are “MAW Valves”. Today I noticed that the plug was “shaved” (see below photos) I blew vigorously through both horns and found the missing shaved piece on the floor. I am not sure which horn it came from but I would think that the Lotus was the most likely suspect with the MAW Valves and the rotor 4th valve.
Has any one had a similar experience?
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RE: Free Brass Arrangement- National Anthem of the Ukraineposted in Miscellaneous
The Ukrainian National Anthem played in subway station repurposed as a bomb shelter in Kyiv.
Lyrics in English:
The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished
Luck will still smile on us brother-Ukrainians.
Our enemies will die, as the dew does in the sunshine,
and we, too, brothers, we'll live happily in our land.We’ll not spare either our souls or bodies to get freedom
and we’ll prove that we brothers are of Kozak kin.What are the original lyrics to Ukraine’s national anthem?
In Ukrainian alphabet:
Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля,
Ще нам, браття молодії, усміхнеться доля.
Згинуть наші воріженьки, як роса на сонці.
Запануєм і ми, браття, у своїй сторонці.Душу й тіло ми положим за нашу свободу,
І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду.In Latin alphabet:
Shche ne vmerla Ukrayiny, ni slava, ni volya,
Shche nam, brattya-ukrayintsi, usmikhnet’sya dolya.
Zginut’ nashi vorizhen’ki, yak rosa na sontsi,
Zazhivemo i mi, brattya, u svoyiy storontsi.Dushu y tilo mi polozhim za nashu svobodu
I pokazhem, shcho mi, brattya, kozats’kogo rodu.
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RE: Looking for information on what appears to be a trumpet with six bellsposted in Historical & Collector's Items
This is the Martin Schalmei, or signal horn. From what I can gather, it was used as a train signal horn, car signal horn, was popular in Hitler Youth Groups, and played in bands. Here is more information and demonstrations.
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RE: New Life to Old Mutesposted in Lounge
@branson
What type of glue works best in your experience? Are there glue varieties to avoid?
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RE: All That Jazz: Miles Davis’s Onetime California Home Asks $15 Million - WSJposted in Lounge
@curlydoc said in All That Jazz: Miles Davis’s Onetime California Home Asks $15 Million - WSJ:
@ssmith1226 Who did the painting?
You know, Curlydoc, it wasn’t good enough that I volunteered to live in the house if it became the new TrumpetBoards.Com world headquarters, now you want me to be the docent
Seriously, I don’t know painted that mural (pictured at bottom), but many people have used the classic photograph as seen above the mural to base similar paintings on. I don’t know who took the original photograph, but it has been used in a number of publications and you can purchase canvas prints of it on line.
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All That Jazz: Miles Davis’s Onetime California Home Asks $15 Million - WSJposted in Lounge
The Wall Street Journal featured an article with the above name. Miles Davis’s final home, which he owned from 1985 until his death in 1991 is for sale. This is your chance to own a piece of Jazz history, in Malibu, no less, for only $15,000,000.
Another alternative, based on the rough calculation that Trumpet Boards has about 430 members signed up would be, if we all chipped in $35,000, we could purchase the house free and clear and make it the “TrumpetBoards.Com World Headquarters”. I would be happy to live on site to make sure the beach was properly raked to a smooth texture and the tide kept on schedule.
The link to the full article is below.
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RE: A little humourposted in Lounge
In this day and age of wokeness, it is about time trumpet players get the utmost respect, which obviously they deserve. Without the trumpet section most bands sound like crap, unless it is a ukulele band, They sound like crap, with or without a trumpet section.
The following are the do’s and don’s of addressing a trumpet player with respect. You can pass this chart out to your bandmates so they address us in the proper manner.
