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@SSmith1226 Nicely done, Steve!

Each genre of instrument goes well with the specific genre of music that was created with it.

I can enjoy a period piece on either a centuries old (replica) natural trumpet, or a modern Schagerl Piccolo trumpet. Different sounds and different reproductions.

In the interview Alison Balsom talks about the Wynton Marsalis Trumpet Cocerto. Here is a sample of it, followed by a review of her outstanding performance.

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/14/lso-pappano-alison-balsom-wynton-marsalis-trumpet-concerto-review-bristol

I'll pine about getting this horn... Not

@SSmith1226 Thank you very much!!

Oh, did you send me an e-mail with an attachment, "How an Eclipse works"?
If not, your e-mail has been hacked.

@Trumpetb If you don't blow, it sucks.

Goes to show that you don't have to like EVERYBODY if you have massive talent.

It's just semantics. There is no real difference.

I have owned and played several plastic instruments.

Plastic recorders

Plastic Cornettos (zinks)

As well as plastic mouthpieces

The plastic instruments play slightly differently to brass instruments as do the plastic mouthpieces.

But then a good player can deliver great music from almost any instrument.

It does not surprise me in the slightest that Charlie Parker sounded great on that plastic instrument. The man was a phenomenon so naturally he sounded phenomenal.

@SSmith1226 these guys are hilarious.

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... or the man whom William Vacchiano called "his best student", Alan Rubin.

@ROWUK said in Mental health among professional musicians:
...The former probably would not take part in any "studies" and the latters response would depend if they had a reasonable paying job outside of music or not.

Yes and this is why isolated reports must be read with caution and questioning their reliability and internal bias. The systematic review I posted above is a larger study including many which brings us closer to the truth from the isolated studies I found based on small groups in a single location.

I lived in New Orleans from 1974 into 1979 and had the opportunity to see Al Hirt perform at his “Al Hirt’s Club” located on Bourbon Street a few times. During the same time I also saw Pete Fountain perform a couple of times at his club.
In the early 2000’s I attended a Maynard Ferguson performance as a guest of a friend of his and got to spend time with him after the concert. My impression of him was that he was a very nice person, but was not in the best physical condition at that time. Never the less, he could play at a high level, but paced himself at short intervals. After the concert I noted that he seemed short of breath with minimal exertion and had noticeable fluid retention (leg swelling, etc). He died in 2006 of Liver and Kidney Failure.

At this point, I think I just have to chip in with the story of how I got hooked into big bands... 1993... I was a fairly competent amateur player with lots of experience in brass bands and wind bands, some orchestral stuff and already a vast repertoire of church stuff. No jazz experience whatsoever. Then, one Saturday morning, I got a phone call... a very Bavarian, very bearded voice at the other end...
"I've heard you're a trumpet player." -
"Yes?" -
"We are a big band." -
"Yes?" -
" You have a red shirt?" -
"Yeees??" -
"Free this afternoon?" -
"Yyeees?" -
"Be at the Saint Florian Restaurant at three." CLICK.

Spoof or truth? Well, the place was not too far away, so I collected everything I thought I might need... rotary Bb, rotary C and picc, black jacket and bow tie... (my usual church gig outfit) and went there.

In my innocence, I thought it might be just a short gig, with probably a third or fourth trumpet awol, possibly an hour's sight-reading of easy stuff, cash in and get out... "otherwise you don't hire a guy you don't know anything about four hours before a gig"...

What I found...

an Austrian wedding, and the band scheduled to play for the afternoon coffee break, then provide dinner music and continue to play for the dancing until dawn... the guy who had gone awol was the 1st trumpet, and they expected me to fully replace him for a whopping 16 hours or so... with a repertoire I had never seen or played before... I had to come clean about my big band experience so far, so trumpet #3 stepped up and I filled his place and managed to muddle through somehow... interestingly enough, they did not throw me out afterwards with catcalls and rotten eggs, but invited me in as full replacement for the now promoted #3. I stayed with that outfit for a full eleven years, playing another 196 weddings with them, 40-50 balls, and smaller gigs, numerous... have never been without a big band ever since.

Very cool.

(sung) "Double you pleasure, double your fun . . "