Posts made by trickg

@Lawler-Bb said in Schilke Club?:

@trickg Interesting. I guess I never noticed that, but I've only played a couple of B series in music stores, while I own a custom S42HD-F and a S32. The different scale of the B series isn't as pronounced as the Benge scale, is it? I love the Benge sound but I really don't get along with the scale and intonation of Benge trumpets.

It's pronounced enough that when I moved from a Bach to my Schilke B6, I had horrible intonation problems at first - the reason why was because my approach to playing on a Bach was so ingrained, I was automatically pushing notes up or down, depending where they sat on the Bach. It took me between 6-8 weeks to fully assimilate to the Schilke, but once I did, my intonation was markedly better than it was on the Bach because the notes on the Schilke are naturally more in tune, and even for notes that you have to adjust, you don't have to adjust them as far. Low D, for instance, barely required much of a throw of the 3rd valve slide, but surprisingly, low E rode fairly sharp, to the point where I'd thrown the 1st valve slide.

I had a similar issue when I switched to the Jupiter 1600i from the Schilke. Both times I thought I'd made a costly mistake, but eventually I assimilated. My intonation is not quite as clear on the Jupiter, but what it lacks in intonation it more than makes up for with secure slotting.

@dupac said in Great Idea!:

Sorry, my friend, just testing how to post a picture!

Posting pics seems pretty easy - I just did a drag and drop into the composition frame, and it automatically uploaded it.

I don't know why this is, but I have always really enjoyed wristwatches. I think part of it is because of timing - inexpensive digital watches had become very popular about the time I was in middle school, and I saved my money (all of $25) and bought a Lorus 4-button digital watch when I was in 8th grade, mainly because everyone else was getting one, and it was a fun class distraction when someone's watch would chime, and the teacher would take it for the day. (Kind of a no harm, no foul kind of thing.) From that point on, I've always worn a watch, and I feel naked without it.

A couple of years after that I asked my mom for a specific Lorus quartz analog watch, and analog watches have been my thing ever since. I'm currently "accumulating" some new watches and have a couple of lesser cost options on the wish list - I suppose I could save up for something nicer, such as a Tag Heuer, Omega, or something like that,but for now I'm more concerned about wearing something I enjoy looking at rather than the name emblazoned on it.

This is some of what I do have.

This is the Seiko world timer my wife gave me for our 1st anniversary in 1993.

Invicta Pro Diver with Swiss Sellita SW200 movement. (ETA 2824 clone) Basically, it looks a lot like a Rolex Submariner.

Here's the Citizen Eco Drive Perpetual Atomic Chrongraph I got a few years ago - I'm actually wearing it right now. It has a fairly classic look of 3 sub-dials on the dial/face.

I have another chronograph too - another Citizen Eco Drive Brcyen Model with a black dial.

Last, but certainly not least, my Tissot Luxury that I got for Christmas. This one is also self-wind/automatic, and features a laser regulated ETA 2824 movement with an 80 hour power reserve. When I first got this, it was very accurate for a mechanical watch, keeping right around +/- 1-3 seconds/day.

@Curlydoc said in TrumpetMaster Format:

@administrator How does one “like” a post?

To my knowledge, you click on the little ^ next to where it says "Quote" - that's an upvote of the post.

I think that Schilkes are some of the best designed, well made horns out there. There was a time when I thought I would be a Schilke man for good, but things and times change, and I wound up going another direction with my most recent horn acquisition. With that said, I'm still not opposed to the idea of going with an S32 some day as a good all-around horn.

The "problem" that the B models run into, IMO, is that they have a somewhat different scale than your typical trumpet design, i.e., Bach, Yamaha, etc, so that if you are playing in an ensemble with other people playing Bachs and Yamahas, sometimes you run into intonation issues because of it. The tragedy is, Schilkes seem to be inherently much more in tune with themselves. Although there were some things about my B6 that I didn't really like, when I was playing with the rock band and wasn't trying to match another trumpet player, I always appreciated the intonation characteristics of that horn.

It's definitely going to take some getting used to - the format is significantly different than most forums I have been a part of - but that's ok. It's intuitive enough that we should be able to make the transition easily enough.