@rowuk We're deeply involved in the rescue operations as well - well, apart from myself because I managed to catch pneumonia and am incapacited in hospital... just strong enough to slowly walk from my room to the café, only to find that it is closed on Saturdays...
But until I was brought here, we organised three truck-loads of aid for Lviv, and tomorrow my wife and her son are driving to the Polish-Ukrainian border to pick up several musician friends from Lviv with their families and deliver about 500 kilos of medical supplies. Our first "convoy" brought 500 kilos of army rations and collected nine orphaned children for foster families in Austria. And next week we are clearing out of our Vienna home to live just in Germany for six months to make space for two Ukrainian families. Have to find storage for 49 trumpets first... yes, I know, I can always send them to you in unmarked cases!
Best posts made by barliman2001
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RE: Free Brass Arrangement- National Anthem of the Ukraine
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RE: Good example of a bad example
@Shifty You forgot a few things:
- the 33 guitar players who argue how Jimi Hendrix would have done it
- the 17 blues singers who make sad songs about the fate of the old bulb
- the conductor who holds the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around him
- the trumpet player who holds the bulb while seven other trumpet players drink until the room is spinning
- the viola player who holds the bulb fitting instead of the bulb
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RE: A little humour
I'm posting this with a heavy heart...
As much as I love trumpets, cornets, flugelhorns, mouthpieces, mutes and everything that comes with them... it is taking up too much of my time. I am struggling to keep up with the everyday basics of cleaning and cooking and maintaining my home, so something has to give. I will be getting rid of my collection.
Below is a list of what's available. Serious inquiries only, and please don't insult me with low offers.
Thanks for reading and understanding...- Dustpan and broom, as new
- Sponges, with patina
- Toilet spray, full
- Mop and bucket, as new
- Window cleaner, hardly ever used
- Vacuum
- Dishwashing liquid
- Laundry detergent
- Fabric softener
- Laundry baskets
- Toilet brush, vintage
- Cleaning sprays
- Wife thrown in
(stolen from Jerry Ringo)
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RE: Looking for F trumpet
@administrator I don't put up an ad on THE OTHER SITE!!
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RE: A little humour
@SSmith1226 As Mark Twain once said, "Politicians and diapers have one thing in common: They must be changed frequently, and for the same reason."
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RE: Fast Tempo and old farts
For many years, I had a similar problem - fast fingerings were a nightmare. Then, I bought a cheap euphonium and started playing that in a local band. And hey presto! suddenly I was able to play much faster... seems the fear of fast fingerings on trumpet hindered my practising, and with the euph, that was gone. And now is gone for trumpet as well.
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RE: A little humour
Last week, I lost nine pounds.
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RE: Which picc?
To put an end to all you people getting blue in the face holding your breath for news of the ACB Doubler picc...
It Has Arrived.
Sturdy box big enough for a euphonium. Lots of bubblewrap, then a nice lightweight case with a big outside pocket and rings for either a shoulder strap or backpack straps. Two straps provided.
Sturdy zipper.
And then...
more bubblewrap
A nice fabric leadpipe pouch with a spare A leadpipe
A nondescript 7C mouthpiece (not a bad one, as they go)...
and one gorgeous ACB Doubler piston picc in yellow brass with satin lacquer.
Nice finish, nice to touch. Comfortable to hold. And then...
Surprisingly easy to play (a Selmer is much harder, and even the Stomvi Elite is not as free-blowing). Intonation is superb - not much facial acrobatics needed to keep in tune in all ranges. And the tone is quite pleasant as well. Needs a bit of getting used to, but that's with every picc.
At that price (Trent was so kind as to ask the show demo price, and included the second leadpipe) I am very, very happy!
Oh yes, what did I pay?
$ 685, and had to pay another 100 bucks import duties (collected by the postman).
Still very happy. First official outing is a concert with the Vienna Lakeside Music Academy for their concert "Over and Under" featuring music from animated movies, 25 January. So now I'll have to do a bit of practising!
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RE: A little humour
FACT: Einstein applied for a Chair of Mathematics in Zurich and was rejected because "his theories were too far-fetched for use in academic teaching."
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RE: Which picc?
Ok, as promised, here's the report from the first concert with the ACB picc.
Read about "Acoustics" - description of the very unconventional hall we played in. Lots of open spaces, lots of glass, two staircases... during rehearsal, sound just vanished. At the performance, the ACB without amp easily filled the hall without effort, blended well with all the brass section of the orchestra (one Lechner Bb, one Cerveny tenor horn, one K&H trombone and a really ancient Lidl tuba). No problem with intonation even after a long wait for it being played - only used in the final piece.
Audience were thrilled, gave us 14 minutes of applause. I'm content. -
RE: A little humour
Actually, the Latin version has not "corners" but the word plagis which can mean anything from "net" to "hit" to "foundation". And that in itself is just a translation from Hebrew kânâph meaning "uttermost extremity" or "wingtip". So you could possibly imagine a bird-shaped Earth, with the peoples gathering from the uttermost wingtips of the bird (somewhat like the giant turtle in Terry Pratchett's writings).
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RE: Trumpet won’t play
Our dear friend Gordon once sent me a gift package with several cornets in it: A Buescher Aristocrat that to this day is my main axe in jazz, an Elkhart by Buescher that's middle of the road but unusual for its pig's tail wrap, and a King Tempo that was absolutely airtight. I tried everything - washing through, snake, spitballs... nothing worked. Finally, in desperation, I gave it to Votruba's. And they put their endoscope inside and as a result unsoldered the bell. What did they find? An ancient wad of chewing gum that someone had rammed down the bell.
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RE: A little humour
"Nurse, did you take blood from the guy in 243?" -
"Yes, Doctor, but I only got about ten pints. He's sleeping peacefully now." -
RE: The One
@SSmith1226 said in The One:
@J-Jericho said in The One:
Now, I haven't explored high-dollar trumpets, but the way my Studio plays for me, I have no inclination to do so.You are a stronger man than I am, J. Jericho!!!
Steve, just be honest. You're following the sethoflagos routine - equal sums for trumpets and your wife's jewellery. And you love your wife so much that you just have to keep on buying trumpets...
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RE: A little humour
President Trump and the Archbishop of Canterbury are playing golf together. Rather frequently, the POTUS misses his putt and every time, he explains, "Darn! I missed!". The Archbishop reminds him of the commandment not to swear, telling him Heaven will record his actions and deal out fitting punishment. At the next hole, the POTUS misses a 2-inch putt: "Darn! I missed!" A dark cloud is gathering in the sky, and out of that cloud, a bolt of lightning hits the Archbishop, killing him instantly, Then, a voice is heard from the cloud: "Darn! I missed!"
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RE: Yamaha Miyashiro with red rot
@tjveloce NOW we know why some manufacturers of TSOs put white gloves in the cases...!
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RE: A little humour
A wife, being somewhat romantic, sends a text to her husband who's on a business trip:
"If you are sleeping, send me your dreams. If you are laughing, send me your smile. If you are eating, send me a bite. If you are drinking, send me a sip. If you are crying, send me your tears...I love you!"
The husband's reply?
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RE: What is this?
Definitely of Russian origin. The water key is normal size, so that is an indicator of how tiny it is. Rotary cornet for the discant voice of Russian military music (which still, to this day, distinguishes between cornet and trumpet parts, the cornet parts being the top parts sometimes reaching far above the staff).
Harbin, by the way, was at one time the administrative centre for the Chinese Eastern Railway, a Russian-built and -owned extension of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Harbin in fact was a Russian city transplanted into what is now China, had a large Russian naval base complete with naval orchestra and several ship's bands as well as a navy-owned musical instruments factory that stamped their instruments with the name of the town and a serial number. Very few of these instruments survive nowadays.
After the 1917 revolution, Harbin was cut off from the evolving Soviet Union and became a long-lasting Russian Imperial enclave, only fading away in the late 1930s.
Congratulations for having such an instrument in at least optically good condition!