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Another awesome performance by Clapton. (These are classic - I laugh so hard I literally have tears rolling down my face.)

Miles Davis at his best.

@Newell-Post said in Game of Thrones Thread:

BTW, after the surrender, while Drogon was continuing to torch the town, did anybody actually see Dany riding Drogon at that point? I didn't. The images were all from long distance. I suppose it is possible Drogon got the blood lust and Dany couldn't control him/her/it. Not sure of Drogon's gender.....

Daenerys was in full control. The reason you didn't see her (she was there) is because at this point Drogon is HUGE - there's a scene where Drogon lands on something and you can see her perched up there, and she's just a spec on the back of his neck.

Nope Daenerys lost it and torched King's Landing in a fit of rage, which is confirmed by all of the behind the scenes stuff and commentary from the directors.

@Rapier232 said in Game of Thrones Thread:

I was disappointed. Arya should have been the one to kill Cersei after killing Jamie who was trying to protect her.

I've been thinking about that. After seeing some behind the scenes stuff from the producers, they seemed to want to switch things up between Cersei and Dany - they wanted people to feel sympathetic toward Cersei, and they wanted to villify Dany.

The way I see it, if a particular character had killed Cersei, it would have caused some to think that someone else more deserving should have been the one to strike the death blow. Although Dany indirectly caused it, she didn't knowingly strike a death blow on Cersei - she destroyed the Red Keep, which simply fell down on Cersei...and I'm not completely convinced she's dead. She probably is, but it's kind of like "The Walking Dead" - if you don't see a dead body or the zombified version of the character, then they may not have actually died.

I have no issues uploading pics - I just drag and drop from a Windows Explorer window.

I just sent them a message stating that their review of trumpets was a joke, and that I sincerely hope no one takes it seriously and makes a purchase decision based on it.

@mafields627 said in Kanstul:

Based on various Facebook posts I've seen it looks like they have been selling off their showroom inventory.

That doesn't sound good. That sounds like they are liquidating the company. I wondered what was going to wind up happening when I'd heard that Zig had passed.

If that's the case, and they are liquidating the company, I'm bummed out, but for purely selfish reasons - I'd always hoped to acquire another CCF 925 flugelhorn like the one I'd had - lacquered with a 100% copper bell. I've already vowed that if I see one pop up on the used market that I'm going to snap it up. I wish I'd never sold mine.

So clearly the scorpions/ballistae weren't up to the task of taking out Drogon. That last episode was a doozie - I was a bit surprised by the turn of events.

I was wondering about this today - is there any news about Kanstul - has anyone heard anything? After a cursory look online, it seems that many distributors are currently showing, "currently unavailable" for some of the Kanstul offerings, particularly flugelhorns.

Is the company going out of business, or are they brokering a deal somewhere to sell it off? Has anyone heard anything?

I borrowed an Eterna D trumpet from a friend once - I thought it played pretty well.

On my current Eb\D, a Yamaha 6610, it just seems that when I throttle back on the volume, it takes a lot more support to keep the sound from thinning - small horns are just a challenge to play, and I'll jump on to what others have said, pick your best mouthpiece that works with it, practice, and go from there.

@Robrtx said in Game of Thrones Thread:

Yes but Cersei has the sinister Qyburn in her service who has already raised Gregor Clegane from the dead and invented a somewhat effective surface -to-air dragon missile.........

Qyburn didn't invent the ballista - he just decided it might be a good weapon to use on a dragon. Now that Dany is aware of it, it's not something she's going to forget about.

As for his ability to resurrect Ser Gregor, my thought there is that once the Hound decapitates him, or puts a sword through his brain via the eye slits of his helmet, it might be a touch difficult for Qyburn to resurrect him in any kind of reasonable length of time.

There are still so many ways this show can go, but I still don't see Cersei winning this one - two full grown dragons can make short work of any army on foot and horseback.

I think that Tyrion and Sansa may wind up back together. They seemed to have a couple of moments in the last couple of episodes, and it would be a good pairing.

I can't wait to see what the next episodes bring!

@administrator said in pet peeves:

In software, a "union" is a specific data type.

In the world of databases, "union" also represents two queries that join together to form a single data set.

As for English...

Oh dear! Look at the deer, dear! Aren't they dear deer, dear?

I before e, except after c....

except when your sleight of hand foreign neighbor Keith receives eight beige counterfeit sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters...

or

when you heinously seize that conceited heifer from the ceiling.

Weird.

@mafields627 said in Notre-Dame de Paris:

One comment that I read was that a huge difficulty will be that trees are no longer available in that region that are as large as the ones originally used. Perhaps this will be a global restoration or alternative materials will be used.

I thought I saw something the other day about how they already had replacement timbers cut and stored for an event such as this, or for if/when those timbers eventually needed replacing, although my Google-fu can't seem to find anything about that at the moment.

I just read about Reims Cathedral and the restoration that went on when it got damaged so badly during WWI. The entire roof burned, and it was replaced with steel - maybe "restoring" Notre Dame de Paris to original spec isn't the best idea, but rather updating certain things with modern materials would be better.

I think that long tones done correctly can make a big difference, but it takes some real discipline to do them correctly. It's probably the key thing that keeps me from regaining the consistency I had during my technical best on the horn in my early 20s. Back then I took the time to do them and to do them correctly.

Hmmm....might have to try giving it a go the next time I hit the practice room.

Tobylou, unless someone else had the same idea as me, it's quite possible that I created your Batslap avatar.

(EDIT: mine is a touch different than the one you've got.)

@barliman2001 said in Easter Services:

@BigDub I once had a spate of piccs...and then I got my claws on an old Selmer high G out of the estate of Maurice André... and that was one revelation. It beat the Scherzer and all the other piccs by such a margin that I sold every single one of them.

Are you saying you own and play on one of Maurice Andre's pics? That's very very cool!

@Newell-Post said in Easter Services:

@BigDub Piccolo trumpet is a harsh mistress. It seems like you should get a whole additional octave out of the deal for free. But unless you are a real master, you mostly just lose the lower octave and get tinny sound. Resist the call of the dark side. Borrow one if you must before investing.

I think this is why I don't particularly like playing on a pic, and have always preferred either D or Eb, depending on the tune and key.

@BigDub said in Easter Services:

@trickg said in Easter Services:

@BigDub said in Easter Services:

I feel very good about how things went for me as well. I knew my endurance was going to be tested to a high degree so in anticipation I was doing "two a days" practice sessions for the week or more leading up to Easter. It was just enough to help me through some high passages ( for me, anyway ) on the Hallelujah Chorus, Christ The Lord is Risen Today ( descant on C, two verses ) and the first part in Grand Choeur Dialogue. All of these then repeated in a second service as well. At one point, I reminded myself to breathe, breathe, breathe, and I am glad I did that. It really helped me relax as well. Also I was mindful the whole time who this was for, and it wasn’t me for sure!

What horn did you use for the Hallelujah Chorus? I keep thinking about getting a pic, but that's about as far as it goes - I've used my D trumpet on the Hallelujah Chorus 7 or 8 times now, and it always seems to get it done ok, whereas I've never felt great about my pic playing on the occasions where I've done it.

I used my Dillon C trumpet, though not a D, still made it a little more manageable than had I used my Bb. A piccolo would have even been nicer, but it seems that people like the D best for the Hallelujah Chorus. I am not accustomed to a piccolo but I would have made it my business to get accustomed to it if one was available. I was able to cleanly hit the D towards the end on both occasions. That would have been an E had I played it on my Bb ( you would know that.....) Thinking about that would have kept me up at night.....I used the C for all the music yesterday. It is surprisingly not a terrible horn now that I know its little intonation differences.

Really? I've always been under the impression from other guys I know who do this kind of music that they prefer to to the Hallelujah Chorus on pic in A - it puts in the key of F, so everything lays really nicely.

The one thing that I have noticed as being a bit of a detractor with using pic is that intonation is a bit more of a factor - because it's such a small horn anyway, it doesn't take much movement with the tuning slide for it to be out, and if it's out, it's not as easy to lip in. D is a bit more forgiving that way, or at least that's been my experience with it.

121 Administrators? Just for the administration of the musicians? Are you sure that they aren't also managing things like ticket sales, guest artist booking, advertising and marketing, etc?

@BigDub said in Easter Services:

I feel very good about how things went for me as well. I knew my endurance was going to be tested to a high degree so in anticipation I was doing "two a days" practice sessions for the week or more leading up to Easter. It was just enough to help me through some high passages ( for me, anyway ) on the Hallelujah Chorus, Christ The Lord is Risen Today ( descant on C, two verses ) and the first part in Grand Choeur Dialogue. All of these then repeated in a second service as well. At one point, I reminded myself to breathe, breathe, breathe, and I am glad I did that. It really helped me relax as well. Also I was mindful the whole time who this was for, and it wasn’t me for sure!

What horn did you use for the Hallelujah Chorus? I keep thinking about getting a pic, but that's about as far as it goes - I've used my D trumpet on the Hallelujah Chorus 7 or 8 times now, and it always seems to get it done ok, whereas I've never felt great about my pic playing on the occasions where I've done it.