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Excited to announce that Jaeger Brass and Trumpet4Fun are again open for business!

Hopefully we have dotted all the i’s and crossed all the t’s of the business regulations here in Germany. We have connected both our channels: the trumpet work of Jaeger Brass and the educational mission of Trumpet4Fun under the rubric of Dr.Trumpet

The website www.DrTrumpet.de is live and has links to the two other sites. Already available for sale are Jaeger trumpets and mouthpieces (JaegerBrass) and books (Trumpet4Fun). Regretfully modifications and such have to wait a bit longer, whilst we are waiting for electricians (affected by Covid delays etc.) to wire up our machinery and lighting.

Please use email for sales enquiries until I can get a shopping cart functioning reliably.

Here is a link to the details. https://www.facebook.com/JaegerTrumpets

@masterwannabe You will lose the silver plating. I am not an expert at bending tubing, but suggest you look at your whole setup. What jigs are you using? How sharp do you want? How gentle are you with the pressure?

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.

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There are great deals on the trumpets. Most of the models are in stock.

@ssmith1226 Thanks Steve. I will certainly not be looking at my 21 years here regretfully. I am grateful for the many opportunities I have been given, and grateful for all the friendships made (including yours and many others on this board.

Don't worry, I shall still be around. Keeping an eye on all you guys!

@trumpetsplus I already have the Resonance Enhancers and my special trigger linkage system for additional valves (Quarter tone, Ascending C/D, in tune Bb/C, double bell) plus the range extender third valve slide, I expect to do more of this type of work, and such other custom work as comes up.

If they are fixed guides on the piston running down a slot in the casing you might try rubbing a wooden popsicle stick up and down down the slot. Be aware, any more work and it might end up like my '36 Ford!

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

@dale-proctor Thanks Dale. I speak some German and will need to pass a basic language test in order to stay there.

My wife and I are moving to Germany at the end of August 2021. Covid hit the business hard, and Erika's boss of 30 years passed after a long illness. We have a place to live, Kirchanschöring in Bavaria, between Munich and Salzburg.

I will pursue teaching opportunities, Brass and Choral,and operate a Trumpet Project Workshop.

Great deals are to be had on current inventory

Also, for the record, the Olds Super Recording was not a souped up Recording, it was a souped up Super

Olds Super (Recording), not Olds SUPER Recording.

Make sure it is a Recording main slide, not an Ambassador. From memory (and I don't see a lot of these) the Ambassador had a particularly long main slide crook and ferrules. An Ambassador main slide in a Recording would certainly lower the o=pitch. The Recording has a brace on the slide, but if a tech had done a replacement they may have installed a brace on an Ambassador slide.

Just thinking. Sorry for your problem.

I think the thread had already lost its way when step-wise movement was considered a scale. I posted "The Blue Room" to show that there was not actually a isle in it. There was a line from leading note to leading note as an intro to the bridge. This is nothing like the Do, Re, Mi, Fa,So, La Ti, Do of a regular scale. The reason I referred to the Pas de Deux in my first reply is that the whole piece is based on a major scale. I purposely did not include a link. Did anyone listen to it?

This was the 303rd daily song I posted on January 26

@administrator My cynical trspeonse to this situation (which is very common) is that ir is designed to assist the teachers rather than the students. "Scales" present a wonderful opportunity to "grade" players. Apply a demerit for each wrong note. This is not what I teach at all.
You might be interested in this: https://www.jaegerbrass.com/Blo/Entries/2017/2/homogenization-and-quantification-of-music.html

I have never practiced scales, although I am proficient in all keys. I play music in all keys. Scales are not music. I know a lot of music and the only example that I can think of of a scale being successfully used in music is the Pas de Deux near the end of Nutcracker ballet.

Jack Holland, the Pitch Finder guy, put these out. On his death the products were taken over by his friend, one of my customers. It is a practi\ce device for buzzing and fingering which has since been copied and marketed by several people. The latest of these is the Sandovalve.

The pedal tone is the note whose half wavelength resonates in the trumpet. It normally sounds more than an octave below low C due to the end effect of the bell because It is not always clear to the sound wave where the tubing ends. T mathematics of this are way beyond most of us - I defer to Benade.

On flugelhorn and trombone/Baritone Horn the pedal tone tends to be exactly one octave lower. On didgeridoo (a cylindrical wooden trumpet) the pedal tone is about a 12th lower.

Here is a bit more: https://www.jaegerbrass.com/Blo/Entries/2019/12/explaining-brass-instruments---2-the-notes.html