Best posts made by Vulgano Brother

@Dr-GO said in Best Off-brand Trumpets:

Oh by the way, here is a picture of my daughters:

Are they married yet, Dad?

@barliman2001 said in [AR Resonance Mouthpieces]
"And if you want to play around on a mouthpiece safari first, go for the Arnolds & Sons range, sometimes marketed as Stoelzel. They are reliable copies of Bach favourites at incredibly low prices..."

Better made than some Bachs in the '90s. Using these mouthpieces allow us to try all kinds of modifications cheaply. Throat sizes (drill bit and a vice) can be easily enlarged, as well as the backbore (fingernail files for reamers).

A fun project is to match the popping frequency of the backbore to the cup, filing off the end of the shank until they match--then machine a Morse taper to the appropriate end diameter.

Adds zing to the response.

@Dr-GO said in Sleep Faster:

the release of melatonin on a 25-hour cycle

Frank Zappa arranged his life around a 25 hour day. He'd go to bed an hour later each night, sleep and do it again.

@Dr-Mark said in glad there's no fighting here:

5.Some fight because from their perspective the other person is dead wrong.

I use Number Five sometimes.

@dr-go You have beautiful daughters! They don't look like you at all!

Don't know where to classify these guys.

@Dr-GO said in My Myopericarditis:

Did your physician put you on colchicine?

85 doses worth, and also a miracle drug called "Aspirin." I've given up my physiological vices and the nicotine patch at 21mg stops my physical urges for tobacco and have also been free of cravings for the smoking ritual, for which I'm grateful.

You make it sound like I was at death's door. If so, I guess 3-6 months on O2 is a small price to play. Oh, I had severe sepsis, too.

I'm assuming it is OK to unplug myself to play (the hose interferes with mouthpiece placement).

I was impressed with the quality of care I received at Providence Sacred Heart Hospital, but it is sure great to have a professional trumpeter/physician/friend to answer my questions.

Thanks, Gary!

Feel at home where I am. I'm from Pirate stock.

We can hear the timbre changes if we cup one ear and play a scale.

@dr-go Need dirty contacts to pull Green Eyed Lady off. You can pull it off because you can count me as a dirty contact.

Sort of my sequence doing long tones.

I don't start on C.

My trumpet professor, Gerald Webster, noted that if we start off the day with our mouthpiece and play a middle high, middle low, middle loud, middle soft "natural" pitch it tends to be the same each time. He called it the "Heimatton," and everyone's is individual. I start my expanding long tone sequence with my Heimatton (Eb) and work from there. The high notes don't seem as high and the low notes not so low.

Just learned that practice is more important than trim kits.

@JWM Rather than the "D"-shaped tuning crook, the rounded is shaped more like a semi-circle.

I learned Zen practice from my shampoo.

"Lather, rinse, repeat."

Liked these guys.

Wow! Two Committees? You must be a super good jazz musician!