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@Dr-GO Hmmm. Perhaps a movie about a PhD Chemist who plays trumpet. Could be called Breaking Band.

Two flies are sitting on a dogpile. One of the flies farts and the other one says,"Knock it off, man, can't you see I'm trying to eat!"

Played in a mini-parade at Sun-Up Bay Resort on lake Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho on the 3rd. It is an old tradition there, and they do it on the 3rd because Pyrotechnicians usually are all booked on the 4th.

A Bb trumpet has longer valve slides than a C trumpet, because it is lower.

The 3 valves lower the pitch of the trumpet by one whole tone, one halftone, and a tone and a half respectively.

When we press down the first valve, we change from a trumpet in Bb to one in Ab. When we add the third valve it is too short. That is why we have that finger ring on most third valve slides, to help us compensate for low D and C#.

The Selmer G trumpets are way better in tune than the Bb/A Selmers. Meinl/Lauber makes an excellent Scherzer Bb/A knock off.

I would suggest (wildly, at that) that the advertisements be placed in a column to the right.

First trumpet for style, the others tune to and follow the first trumpet.

Ta-da!

My old routine:

Charlie Butler Routine (flowstudies, tongued scales.) Took around 45 minutes.
If I had a hard gig that night, I'd stop there. After Butler, "Total Range" last lesson. Arban multiple tongue studies, double tongue until the tongue got spastic, then the same with triple tongue. Upcoming concert material. Close before a long concert (brass quintet) I'd just do the Butler, rest a bit, and play through the concert music without getting tired.

Sometimes for fun, I'd transpose Clarke into weird keys.

Transpose up!

For those interested in Benade and his work here is a fun site:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/marl/Benade/

I must confess, that when I studied acoustics Fundamentals of Musical
Acoustics was in its first edition.

@Kehaulani said in This is a hoot and is very well done!:

When I saw my first Spaghetti Western, I was so disgusted by the violence that I walked out. Now, I watch it on late-night T.V. and don't even think a thing about it. Sad commentary.

I loved the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange and when the movie was to be showing at my University I didn't hesitate to budget $1.00 more to bring a date.

First date. Last date. Actually, pretty much the last time we ever talked.

When can we meet under the bridge in Spokane again, Dr. GO? My back's been bothering me...

Something bots lack, from Strunk & White "The Elements of Style:"

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."

I have exclusive rights to 8VB whenever I want.

The second trumpet part in the Canadian Brass arrangement of Bach's "Little Fugue in C Minor" has an eleven bar phrase of sixteenths at one point. I didn't write just "BB" on my part, but rather "BFB."