Posts made by Trumpetsplus

Lot of input from a new member. I would like to see the answer to Barliman's question about contacting Phaeton. The situation feels strange, even fishy. As Flugelgirl says, you get your local tech (or yourself) to change out valve stems.

Here is the next installment of Brass for Dummies, or Brass for Parents.
http://www.jaegerbrass.com/Blo/Entries/2020/1/explaining-brass-instruments---3-more-notes.html

A trumpet needs some resistance. One with zero resistance would be like that playground trick when someone leans on you but you pull away.

Here is chapter 2.
http://www.jaegerbrass.com/Blo/Entries/2019/12/explaining-brass-instruments---2-the-notes.html

@Vulgano-Brother You are jumping the gun somewhat. Shapes of curves will be addressed in a future Waiata.

@Dirk020 If one model actually had more resistance it just means that it was harder to get it into resonance. I am not trying to explain design principles. I am only hoping to point out information.

I put this one up to help clear confusion.

http://www.jaegerbrass.com/Blo/Entries/2019/12/brass-instruments-are-not-pneumatic-circuits.html

@tptguy One of Conn's preferred threads was 6-40

I have often been surprised at the lack of students' understanding of how trumpets work, so am fated to write some brief articles to help them. Here is the first effort:
http://www.jaegerbrass.com/Blo/Entries/2019/12/explaining-brass-instruments---1-the-basics.html

Especially where you are, I would check out Cerveny.

I have made the bar from ABS but I think the nylon ones are available from Allied Supply - check with your local tech. Don't get many Connstellations in, but I would guess either 4-40 or 5-40.

@Kehaulani I do not teach professional track students, I only teach recreational track students. We achieve a lot of progress using real music.

Schlossberg, Stamp, and all the others are great for those who spend most of their day playing, but are not ideal, in fact can be counter-productive, for those with limited time. Case in point the bending exercises in Stamp - one player I know is so dedicated to these that he now has no idea where in-tune is; he does not find the resonance of his horn, he forces it into synthesizer-like submission.

By the way, I do play and teach music like Bitsch and Charlier (and others), but, with due deference to my close friend Allan Colin, I do not play his father's Lip Flexibilities.

@Kehaulani Absolutely!

I NEVER play lip flexibilities or Schlossberg. I only ever play music (tunes), And I only teach tunes. That is why I have compiled my book of tunes and am getting a second one together. Exercises only came about in the 19th century. Bach taught his students with music. Chopin's studies (etudes) are music.

Let's throw the cat in!

The conventional opposite of "professional musician" is "amateur musician".

"Amateur" is from the latin root: amare - to love (Fr. amour, It. amore, Eng. amorous) which would suggest that an amateur musician is someone who loves being a musician?

As love is at the other end of the scale from hate, is it not then the implication that the professional musician is someone who hates being a musician?

In the simplest 4/4 situations 120 is the number of quarter notes per minute and the music will be marked
(quarter note) = 120. (Star Wars theme).
Play each quarter note on the tic
Sorry, don't know how to insert quarter note note symbol
Or if it is very slow
(eighth note) = 120 (Bach/Gounod Ave Maria)
Play each eighth note on the tic

In 12/8 the music will be marked
(dotted quarter note) = 120 (Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall)
Play each dotted quarter note on the tic, the eighth notes will be like triplets

Or if it is very slow
(eighth note) = 120 (Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman)
Play each eighth note on the tic

So look to see what the time signature says. Is it (quarter note) = 120, or is it (dotted quarter note) = 120, or is it (eighth note) = 120?

Easier to explain face to face, but I hope this helps.

email sent

Talking about backwards and wives, a friend suggested that when you get married you should film the whole ceremony so that when the disillusionment sets in you play the film backwards and end up single again!

(It's my thread, I'm allowed to hijack it!)

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?

@Niner Not a bad idea, but it may transform the forum into something other than a friendly chat station. And it may impinge on the right (which I wholeheartedly defend) of members to remain anonymous. I've seen in other places where beginners ask for advice and the most advice came from the least knowledgeable. Anyone can construct a fake bio. This is a big reason why I have always chosen to be identifiable. I may not be right all the time, but you can always know the background from where my error has come.

Just because someone is an absolute expert player does not mean they will have an unchallengeable opinion about a practice routine for player X or equipment for player Y. Such a sticky might present that they do.

@Dr-GO As a medic does it bother you that most of these guys are dead?