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@moshe
Seems like not a nice thing so say.

Uhh, that's nice.

@Dr-GO, in contemporary German brass-lingo we called a double high C a "C5," (B4 concert pitch) and the pedal C a "C1."

International Standards (ISO) name the C below the treble staff and above the bass as "middle C." (That makes sense because it is in the middle between the two staves.) Middle C is C4. Pedal C is C3 and C in the staff a C4.

Played Bach and Handel with a couple other trumpet players on A piccolo trumpets and our first rehearsal was something by Handel, so the parts were notated in C. Took us a while to figure out that one of us was talking in sounding pitch, one in written pitch and one in A. Depending on who you asked, the same note could be a "D"," "C" or "F."

Some people have but one vibrato, and we need a wide variation, from shimmer to Harry James. Saxophonists practice vibrato in time--quarter notes, eighth, etc as to be able to control it.

A beautiful evening song.

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Ah, those (in)famous Kanstul valves. Bet your Getzen four-valve doesn't need oiling in the middle of a gig!

How about Mercedes in the window.

@trumpetsplus I've noticed that the mouthpieces that work best on a given trumpet, the ones that make the trumpet "sing," make for an easy in-tune Pedal C.

Timofei Dokshizer had an amazing sound and plenty of vibrato but at times no vibrato.

I was into jazz before I heard the Dead play on records, and then live. It was a gateway into

and aleatoric modern music.

Trinkt einen Münchener zu Weihnachten ein "Christmaß?"

@Dr-GO said in Mouthpiece too large?:

My Harrelson Brass Pipe is now selling for around $14,000:

People will pay you that much not to play? Guess I should have become a jazz musician!

Aleve and beer work for me.

Used to purposely use an Eb first slide on D trumpet to get the d in the staff in tune, and kicked out the first slide a tad on other notes.

I bought a Megatone looking 3C from a Chinese company, and it is better made than some Bachs in the '90s. Not a true 3C copy, the bite is softer and the cup deeper, and the whole effect is that of a kind of large but not too large trumpet mouthpiece (which the 3 is).

Not bad for $10.

@Dr-GO I'm thinking something stronger some days. The beer takes care of the inflammation, but sometimes the pain persists. Doesn't cocaine have pain-killing properties?

It's not just my back though. After the Viagra you sent me I developed carpal-tunnel syndrome.

Picard swears in French.

We could wipe male baldness pattern off the map with a combination of breeding and eugenics.