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Q: Do you play the Trumpet Voluntary?
A: No, my parents made me do it.

Helped pay for college playing in a horn band. Heck, even Steely Dan was using horns back in the day!

There will always be those that do it better. Only one can be the first.

"Sing a scale," said my teacher, years ago.
I sang "do re mi fa sol la ti do."
"At least you got the words right," he said.

A quote I found today:

"Trumpet players fear no living persons and are only mildly respectful to most deities..."

A Husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf. Of course, the wife promptly hacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course.

The husband cringed, 'I warned you to be careful! Now we'll have to go up there, find the owner, apologize and see how much your lousy drive is going to cost us.'

So the couple walked up to the house and knocked on the door. A warm voice said, 'Come on in.'

When they opened the door they saw the damage that was done: glass was all over the place, and a broken antique bottle was lying on its side near the pieces of window glass.

A man reclining on the couch asked, 'Are you the people that broke my window?'

'Uh...yeah! , sir. We're sure sorry about that,' the husband replied.

'Oh, no apology is necessary. Actually I want to thank you.. You see, I'm a genie, and I've been trapped in that bottle for a thousand years.

Now that you've released me, I'm allowed to grant three wishes. I'll give you each one wish, but if you don't mind, I'll keep the last one for my self.'

Wow, that's great!' the husband said. He pondered a moment and blurted out, 'I'd like a million dollars a year for the rest of my life.'

'No problem,' said the genie 'You've got it, it's the least I can do. And I'll guarantee you a long, healthy life!'

'And now you, young lady, what do you want?' the genie asked.

'I'd like to own a gorgeous home in every country in the world complete with servants,' she said.

'Consider it done,' the genie said. 'And your homes will always be safe from fire, burglary and natural disasters!'

'And now,' the couple asked in unison, 'what's your wish, genie?'

'Well, since I've been trapped in that bottle, and haven't been with a woman in more than a thousand years, my wish is to have sex with your wife.'

The husband looked at his wife and said, 'Gee, honey, you know we both now have a fortune, and all those houses. What do you think?'

She mulled it over for a few moments and said, 'You know, you're right. Considering our good fortune, I guess I wouldn't mind, but what about you, honey?'

You know I love you sweetheart,' said the husband. I'd do the same for you!'

So the genie and the woman went upstairs where they spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying each other.

The genie was insatiable.

After about three hours of non-stop sex, the genie rolled over and looked directly into her eyes and asked, How old are you and your husband?'

'Why, we're both 35,' she responded breathlessly.

'No Kidding,' he said.

'Thirty-five years old and you both still believe in genies?'

@barliman2001 said in A little humour:

In Bavaria, unwary tourists can fall prey to the Wolperdinger, a vicious flesh-eating hare with a roebuck's horns.

Once a month they would fire up the Feuriger Elias, and stop at our village in Germany.

New trumpet valve invented.

I asked my shrink if I was an Idiot-Savant and he told me I wasn't smart enough.

My DEG Signature C is very fine. It was made at the time when Monette was using Allied parts, and, uhh, Allied may have made some mandrels for Dave, and uhh...

Anyway, it is a great C. Cost me $350, and Walt Johnson and Tony Scodwell picked it out at the factory for me.

Used it to good advantage on one of my weirdest gigs, substituting for the principal trumpet of the New World Philharmonic Orchestra (based out of Florida) in a concert in Big Sky Montana. Just had time to change into my tails, meet the conductor: "The overture is in one, I'll try to cue you." and I sight-read the concert. Anybody else sight read Ibert's Divertimento in concert with a major orchestra? Even got some foot shuffles from the players. After the concert the conductor thanked me and told me I sounded somewhat like Herseth. (Can't trust what conductors say!)

Anyway, great horn.

It might be your fingers. Doing patterns slowly enough that we can play them perfectly builds muscle memory, and lets us "play" faster than we can read.

But only if the fingers cooperate.

https://orchestrationonline.com/orchestration-reviews/star-wars-the-force-awakens-orchestration-review-episode-v-the-trumpets-strike-back/

Knew a trumpeter that could peg any note on the tuner up to double c any time.

Problem is, if you are playing a chord tone, the Major 3rd will need to come down about 14 cents, the fifth about 2 cents up. If everyone does their part and play the exact degree of "out-of-tuneness" needed, the chord will ring. If everyone pegged the tuner, the chord will not ring.

I worked more than the above-mentioned trumpeter did.

Came across this today. It has some good advice.

https://www.trumpetguild.org/images/pdf/DavidJohns.pdf

When picking up a new instrument I try to let it find its own sound. Then I can influence that as needed.

Cheaper with deer. Two under a buck.