Posts made by Vulgano Brother

@dr-go

I dig your lack of posture.

Start with Kansas City, then Oakland....

@dr-go Yes, let's have paintings for all the Superbowl losers over the years.

I tried the Monette leadpipe again. It is about one receiver longer than the Bach, and it fixes the g nicely. Time to cultivate a local American tech to put it on. It will change brace placement for sure. (I had the braces removed Spada does [without the fine tuning] previously.)

As for slide shape, I don't like the edge that comes with the Bach D core. It just sits there and buzzes and there isn't too much ability to color it. Haven't experienced ovate slides on my D yet, but I find my round one gives me a warm, highly compact C sound that I like, kind of like a mythical Gil Johnson D sound. Thinking of moving the bell brace up a bit for more feedback.

Isn't playing with horns fun?

(That's another way of saying "Why didn't it work right out of the factory?")

Playing horns is even more fun, so please excuse me while I practice.

My D trumpet. Elkhart Bach, 236 bell. Tuning slide by Matthias Beck. over-under first valve slide with ring., shortened third slide, and brace removal by Norbert Böpple, and a couple of gadgets from Ivan Hunter--his adjustable tuning slide brace lets me switch from brighter to darker, and he's got some sort of dampeners for between the valves that seems to improve slotting.

It has a glorious sound and a fine blow, but the G in the staff is so flat that it has to be played 1-3. I don't like that. I have an old Monette leadpipe that I haven't soldered on yet, and the G is still flat. No matter the mouthpiece, the G is flat.

Anyone else have this problem with their D180?
Anyone know how to fix it?

Youtube Video

Gil had one of the prettiest C trumpet sounds.

@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.

That's it. I'm giving up trombone.

If you like yodeling....

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

@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.

Now that good weather is coming, time to get in shape!

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 You have beautiful daughters! They don't look like you at all!

New trumpet valve invented.

@Kehaulani said in Saturn:

Ah yes, Venus.

Benade wrote about the importance of matching backbores to cups around some 50 years ago.

@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!

@Rapier232

@Dr-GO "...but now, your heart is learning syncopated rhythms!"

"I've got rhythm, (stomp stomp), I've got rhythm, (stomp stomp), I've got rhythm, (stomp stomp), who could ask for anything more?"