I asked my shrink if I was an Idiot-Savant and he told me I wasn't smart enough.
Posts made by Vulgano Brother
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RE: A little humour
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RE: What are pedal tones on the trumpet?
@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.
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RE: Anybody need a "Mouth of Trumpet"?
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.
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RE: Best Off-brand Trumpets
@dr-go You have beautiful daughters! They don't look like you at all!
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RE: Mouthpiece 'Comparator' ?
Benade wrote about the importance of matching backbores to cups around some 50 years ago.
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RE: Mouthpiece too large?
@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!
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RE: Well, old age has finally caught up with me
@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?"
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RE: Railroad Photography
Once a month they would fire up the Feuriger Elias, and stop at our village in Germany.
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RE: I gave up on "Double High C in . . "
@Kehaulani My nephew used to drive Maybach's from point A to point B as a summer job.
They weren't allowed to go through the McDonald's drive-through.
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RE: I gave up on "Double High C in . . "
@Kehaulani Near Stuttgart. Roughly 1990 - early 2000s.
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RE: I gave up on "Double High C in . . "
@Kehaulani I worked in Germany some with a Japanese trumpeter who studied in Vienna and later the Spaulding method. He had wonderful technique and a consistent "double-high D" (concert) but had a sound like a laser beam, even on his Ganter.
He didn't work a lot.
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RE: I gave up on "Double High C in . . "
Charles Peters' “Total Range” is progressive, uses many of the same exercises (without the chin-tuck thing) as in 37 weeks, is to be used daily, AND as an adjunct to other playing.
Worked for me and my students.
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RE: Vernacular (of range)
@Kehaulani "C4" is two syllables long. "Middle C" (which might mean "low C") has three. "C below the staff" has five.
I'd be happy with "C4."
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RE: Vernacular (of range)
@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."
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RE: Dr. Mark, now A Former User
The biggest thing I learned from my first chamber music experience wasn't intonation or listening, but appropriately listening to and responding to constructive criticism and other points of view.
That is what brings us from players to musicians.
I have the feeling Dr. M was more of a trumpet player than musician.
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RE: Is It Jazz or Is It Classical?
Jimmy Owens spoke in terms of Eastern and Western approaches instead of Jazz and Classical in a clinic I attended. This piece sounds Western to me, and therefore, in a classical style.