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@Dr-GO What can I say? There was no quid pro quo!

@Dale-Proctor I still must admit that I don't understand what the Resonance Enhancers are actually doing. But, whatever it is, they do it on all the designs I have tried it on. So, presumably they are addressing a design (deficiency) common to all trumpets????

@Dr-GO said in Company Timelines (Besson, Diston-Keefer, Frank Holton, Vincent Bach):

Good new here is I was born in 1955, so I am lead free!
That may have just made room for other contaminants!

@bigdub Beautiful playing, beautiful music. We used to play a Brass Band arrangement of this in the 60s, and I recently arranged it for my local band.

Also, I included this piece in my collection of tunes "Music 4 Fun".

A community orchestra I play in holds a Salon each Sunday evening. Tonight I will be talking about the development of, and playing a short excerpt that I learned with Nassim Maalouf, my quarter tone trumpet.

Also I have been posting daily tunes for people to play with the idea of sending their music to some other, be it parent, child, or any significant other. Today's was the 47th piece. Anyone wanting to join in can either email me to get on the list or check the daily posting on the Trumpet4Fun facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/Trumpet4Fun/

@Kehaulani I think I understand you now. The Resonance Enhancers are not braces, they are thermoplastic rubber (so no effect on silver plate) inserts that go between the valve casings. They are not permanently mounted. I have not been told of any models that they do not work on, however 2 players have not liked the difference they made. I supply a set with each of my trumpets.

A note on the serial numbers. Small builders normally outsource valve blocks. Valve blocks are typically the repository of serial numbers. The valve block manufacturer often wants to retain the record of manufacture so will reserve the right to number these according to their internal systems.

During the Covid shutdown I have been posting daily tunes to help keep miusicians motivated. A lot of these tunes are in my new compilation which is now available. Sorry due to high postage rates, it is too expensive to send these outside the US (but my trumpets and smaller accessories like Resonance Enhancers ship for the same price worldwide). http://www.jaegerbrass.com/products/publications.html

There are some unbelievable musical performances available online these days. It is so inspiring to listen to them. But never underestimate the positive power of your own playing, no matter at what level. There is great therapeutic benefit in playing (rather than just listening to) music, especially if you are "giving" your music to some significant other - mother, sibling, spouse, child or care worker. My message to you all is "Please Play"!

If the pistons work well, don't worry about discoloration. The thickness of the colored coating may be working to compensate for valve wear.

This talks about that https://www.jaegerbrass.com/Blo/Entries/2017/1/exposing-wear---dont-shoot-the-messenger.html

@Tobylou8 said in Trumpets Made ONLY by Their Maker:

@administrator said in Trumpets Made ONLY by Their Maker:

@ACB said in Trumpets Made ONLY by Their Maker:

@administrator fyi Harrelson uses Carol Valves and other foreign components to his horns.

Thank you @ACB , I was not aware. It makes financial sense to do so, but proves the point that less and less companies are "100% homemade." I mean, Toyota uses a BMW engine in their new Supra!

Quite a few Supra purist are none too happy about that! Toyota's reasoning was that "purist" wanted a straight 6 engine. Okay. Then "purist" would also want it to be a Toyota engine! Toyota didn't want to spend the money on R&D for a low volume car. Also, only available in an automatic transmission!!! Yep, I agree it will be a low volume car.

Not for large families!

The principle is very simple: in order to achieve maximum resonance for any note, the instrument's acoustic length must equal half the wavelength of the note. If an instrument is being "blown into tune" the notes are being blown out of resonance, the trumpet is being played inefficiently.

Because 10% of 110 (=11) is bigger than 10% of 100 (=10), and sound frequencies change in a proportional way, not fixed, we need to make the instrument progressively longer when more valves are utilized. If the first valve is long enough to lower an open note by one step it is not long enough to lower a third valve note by one step. This is an immutable law of physics

It requires either divine intervention or some form of physical compensation to enable the trumpet to be consistently resonant on all valve combinations.

If you are into Mozart Horn Concertos you might me interested in this (a page out of my upcoming book 300+ Melodies) 

Here is a bell I bent and made detachable. I used Cerro Bend as the filler and annealed where the bend would be. Make sure that the cerrobend cools completely and slowly.

Nothing sinister. That is what old lacquer on a used trumpet looks like.

How quick the transformation from Moderato to Allegro!

subito tranquillo e morendo

Couldn't find a more appropriate place for this, so here goes:

A short video on overcoming shortcomings of printed music and using lyrics.

The difference in proportions between the Balanced models and others is negligible compared to the difference between, say, piston and rotary trumpets. The Balanced models pretty much follow example 1.

Just put this up on my Waiata page http://www.jaegerbrass.com/Blo/index.html

Why do scales go up?

When you ask someone to sing or play a scale why do they always perform an ascending scale? I do this experiment often and very seldom does anyone descend.

Why is it so easy to recognize “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music as a scale even though it is very broken up, but not so easy to recognize that the theme of the Nutcracker “Pas de Deux” is a straightforward descending major scale?

Could it be that the period of early concert music, early music pedagogy and early musicology was when string instruments dominated? String instruments are, by their nature, ascending instruments and ascending scales are amongst the first things played after open strings?

If you ask someone why they play ascending they will often reply that they were taught that way. But why were they taught that way?

We will never know the answer, but it’s an interesting question, isn’t it?