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@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.

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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?

Playing since 1958, gigging since 1964, full-time professionally since 1970 after winning the World Championship.

Principal in the local Symphony and first call session work till 1980. Not many world class acts came down under in those days. I moved to Australia to do the premiere and cast recording of a Broadway show than went to England for a couple of years to be a rock star! It didn’t work but I wrote and recorded a couple of singles. Back in Australia I concentrated on Salsa at night and managing a manufacturing company by day for ten years or so, then got head hunted for some teaching gigs and managing a music instrument importer/retailer.

Head hunted to USA in 2000 for my particular teaching philosophy so came here on an Einstein visa. Since then I have concentrated on recreational music making, even founding a not for profit public charity. It is this charity which underwrites the Trumpet Saturdays held by www.Trumpet4Fun.org

Once settled in US and dissatisfied with available models I realized that I could build a trumpet that would be easier to play and give more satisfaction to the player. So I combined my playing abilities with my manufacturing knowledge and latent Kiwi know-how to come up with Jaeger trumpets.

@Dirk020 I would certainly bow to any rotarians amongst us, but superficially:
Rotary flugel and piston flugel are very similar; short adjustable length lead pipe straight into valves, then gradual taper all the way to the bell.

Rotary trumpet has valves positioned the same as flugel, then an "extension lead pipe" connects to the main slide after which the tubing tapers to the bell.

So a similarity is placement of the valves and a difference is the flugel is tuned at the lead pipe and the trumpet at the main slide.

A new trumpet will have a difference in diameters, piston to casing, of around 0,015mm. At 0,04 you are looking at a refit. When the clearance is this great the wear is normally in the casing. That wear is not only egg timer shaped, greater at top and bottom, but also oval (greater sideways than front and back). The remedy is to hone the casings true and round, then plate the pistons up to the new diameter.

Worn valves on a trumpet normally cause plying issues before sticking issues.

@Niner Perhaps some confusion. It is not "how one is feeling" - that implies good or bad mood, it is "how the instrument feels to the player". And it is not what kind of band or ensemble one is playing that determines what the instrument is, it is what kind of instrument best suits the band or ensemble.