Posts made by Tobylou8

@adc said in 1953 Conn 80A Cornet:

@Tobylou8 said in 1953 Conn 80A Cornet:

Appears to be a transitional model with the mixed brass and silver/nickel slides! Nice cornet!

I wished I liked playing it. I mean it plays like its supposed to but its almost a trumpet. And I am selling it for exactly what I paid for it + $$ I put in to fix it up. Probably You can find one cheaper. Who knows.

I would give it to some kid in a minute but the stupid valve design would be a problem for a kid. It was an ignorant design by Conn. They did a lot of innovation but you would have thought they would move on after 30 or forty years of this design.

That design was made into the late 60's I believe.

@SSmith1226 said in Tom Green:

@Dr-GO
Here is some work Tom did for me:

@flugelgirl said in Favorite Cornet:

Finally found that on iPad, if I resize to square the pics will upload!! 1939 King Silver Tone Master cornet, silver finish with gold accents. Love how this one plays!! All it needed was a clean, and even came with original case and case candy.

That is BEAUTIFUL cornet. I looked at a '37 once but the owner would never give me a price. It had more brass, but the engraving was the same.

Appears to be a transitional model with the mixed brass and silver/nickel slides! Nice cornet!

I soooo wanted it at the time, I just didn't have the bread. It's in good hands!

@Three-Sevens said in Welcome to TrumpetBoards!:

@administrator

Yes, as cbtj51 (I wanted to change the name pretty much right away, but couldn't)! I still visit TH often, but read a post by tobylou8 and then LaTrompeta's original post, followed the lead, and glad I did!

Mike

So are we!

My dream car in the early 80's.

This is what I ended up getting. I was happy though!

@Dr-GO said in Tom Green:

That Getzen Power Bore in his photo gallery is now mine!!! All mine!! Thanks to Cyber_Shake (old TM Member)

One of the best looking trumpets ever!!!

I didn't see anything in the article suggesting that the cleanliness of the instrument could be a factor. A sax mouthpiece has got to be relatively more difficult to keep clean than a metal mouthpiece plated in silver.

More trumpeters should take Dirty Harry's advice!

When I First started back, my warm-up was my practice session!

Correct. Endurance is like the old saying, "I need patience, and I need it now"!!

@Dr-GO said in Welcome to TrumpetBoards!:

Great to see we have most of our moderators from TM here... and rumor has it that Rowuk is circulating the site and laying low (as if Rowuk could actually fly under the radar so to speak) as he decides whether or not to add to the cause.

Well...., a "church" needs it's "pastor"!! LOL

@GeorgeB said in Exercises for super fast tonguing:

@Tobylou8
There is a youtube of the arrangement we use done by The Coldstream Guards.
The video of suggested exercises you posted is actually slower in tempo than our arrangement of Bogey. I have been playing those in the Bogey march over and over but it sounds spitty and not really sharp. Thanks for you suggestion, though.

Maybe double tonguing will get it done. If this is the part you're talking about at 2:00 then ta-ka ta-ka double tongue is what I'd do. And now I remember playing this arrangement too! It can be a tongue twister for sure!

@GeorgeB said in Exercises for super fast tonguing:

The band I play with is doing a march called Colonel Bogey ( from Bridge On The River Quai ) and the last 66 bars of the march contain a series of four 8th notes played staccato in cut time. My attempts are spitty. Does anyone have a suggested exercise to help develop a nice clean dit dit dit dit.

In my younger playing days I never played marches and at 83 my old tongue just doesn't seem to work that well on the real fast stuff.

What arrangement? I've played it but I don't remember that being in our arrangement. You could go to you tube and play along with these Arbans single tongue exercises. You can go to the setting menu (little gear) and play it at half speed and the pitch stays the same. Here's an example. I would suggest "Tu Tu" for single tonguing.

@administrator said in Synergy Brass Quintet:

Has anybody heard from these guys lately? I heard them in 2008 and was fairly impressed. All the information I can find online is now over a decade old.

Wiki says "WAS".... .

Clicking on the website gets this; Sorry, We could not find www.synergyquintet.com
It may be unavailable or may not exist. Try using the suggestions or related links below, or search again using our web search.

They were, hopefully are still excellent!

@SchilkeB6 said in RIP Trumpet "Master":

@adc
No Rowuk was NOT the owner!

SchilkeB6, the original name of Solar Bell, back to it!

@Dr-GO said in The Seven C's:

AND worth every penny:

@Dr-GO said in The Seven C's:

@Tobylou8

The real secret to getting a double C on a regular basis... Buy a Harrelson Summit!

So.. not a secret anymore.

@Dr-GO said in RIP Trumpet "Master":

And I take this as a chance for a rebirth. gmonady is now Dr GO.