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I've used a small GK bass amp.

A different approach that can work is to start your day on the larger equipment, but in the range of the smaller so you're starting with a more compact aperture.

Not that I know of.

I have a Comfort Aire that I don't use anymore but it served well for a few years and as far as I know it still works. It's probably 15 years old.

Some credit cards offer a doubled warrantee on anything you charge with it.

So the full story is this: Alex Schachter was a 14 year old trombone player, and one of the 14 students and 3 staff members killed in the shooting on February 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkand Florida. All County Music is a local music store about 6 miles south of the school. Fred S...

Or that his tenor piece was too small for him in the first place, and he was just making it work. That situation is extremely common. Ultimately, anyone will become a better player if they're not having to struggle to make equipment work, or spend extra hours of practice time just to keep it working.

Most doublers don't use "the same" rim size but it can be a huge help to use something larger than someone who doesn't double might use.

"The Schachter family, All County Music President Fred Schiff, and Conn-Selmer music company President John Stoner presented the instruments to the students, their parents, and the band directors." I guess Conn-Selmer deserves a mention here but it's not clear whether they donated, or somehow in com...

The right size rim can be a huge shortcut.

This is one of the main reasons I designed my mouthpiece system - to allow you to play on a rim size that suits your needs.

I have a set of industrial brushes that are 36 inches long, that I use with Dawn dishwashing liquid to clean both inner and outer tubes, and a snake to get in the crook.

FWIW, in my entire career I have never cleaned my outer slide with a cleaning rod the way "everybody" recommends.

The "wear" would only be burnishing, causing it to fit better. No actual wear, no material lost.

If a 6-1/2AL woks well for you on a 3B if will also work well for you on a 2B.

No preference, but I'd rather delete what I don't want to include than have to hunt for what I do.

Use a smaller finger?

I do lessons by Skype, and just one will take you a long way. Several people here on the forum have done that.

I was the first to use Lexan. At the time Giardinelli used Acrylic, which cracks easily, and Schilke used Delrin which leaches out formaldehyde. Those are among the reasons I chose Lexan, it doesn't break easily and is totally inert and non-allergenic, and it feels good on the chops.

It wouldn't be a stretch to email Max and ask him if he knows who bought it.

Either flutter tongue with the tip, similar to a rolled R, or with the back of the tongue like the gutteral "ch" in Hebrew or other languages.

She's actually from Barcelona. I met her at the ITF in Valencia. A very natural player and wonderful musician. Anybody else notice something odd? Unless the pitch was changed on the video, her trombone is in B. Being in Spain it would not have surprised me too much if it was in C... But no, 1st posi...

I don't know the rim shape of the Harwood, but maybe you need the support of a thicker rim - plus the relaxation Bob mentioned. I think most of the mouthpieces you mentioned have thin rims, which ordinarily wouldn't be a problem, but high volume equals pushing more air which requires more mouthpiece...

I don't believe that leaning on a horn would bend one of the stockings.

Injuries like that are caused by playing incorrectly for your face. You can rest and recover but that doesn't fix why it happened.

Distilled or reverse osmosis water does tend to absorb metals easily if it's in constant contact. But it's not...

Exactly

There is no commercially available reamer that's the correct size. It has to be custom ordered and as I recall the cost for one is about $250. Multiples can be made for less each, and I've considered that but never done it. I think it's a Jarno #5. Same taper as Morse but in the size range useful fo...

Depends on where you play 1st position - I know that Neo Bri plays extended positions as I do, and that leaves plenty of room to pull in to tune it. I never use Ab in 1st myself, but there are plenty of people who do. Then there's the fact that it's out of tune compared to equal temperment - but in ...

I do modifications like that to my own mouthpiece designs all the time, but not copies of others.

Depends on what's "bigger" and what's "not."

He said "named for the tone of the instrument."
I think my Olds F alto could be called a mezzo-soprano since that's more what it sounds like.

If the key defines the name, a standard modern bass trombone is a tenor.

I'll mail it today.
As with most of these rims, it's new with a tiny dent so small you probably can't even see it.

If you have money to spend on a trip, go to the ITF July 10-13 in Muncie IN. It is well worth it just to attend the clinics and concerts, but you can also try just about every horn there is, all in one place.

A very light D-D-G. I practice it so lightly that it almost sounds like no tongue at all.

Yes, Morse is the standard taper for most horns.
I can make lots of variations to fit older horns.
They're all the same price.

I have seen 354's with that, but I've owned a bunch of them and it hasn't happened to any.

A good 354 is hard to beat but they're not all like that.

I've never played a TB200 but I have had several 354's and some of them can be a bit stuffy especially in the upper range, so I can imagine a more open horn feeling easier in the high range.

Regardless of bore size, some horns have easier range than others. Maybe your mouthpiece is better suited to that bore size. Sometimes less resistance is easier to play. Lots of unknown variables - you didn't mention what horns they are, or your mouthpiece(s).

On the JJ, I would do a standard legato triple tongue on pretty much all of that. I have developed a very legado double and triple tongue with a soft D&G so that it sounds almost like doodle tonguing because I can't actually doodle tongue.

That's based on one sample I measured. It may or may not apply to others, however I suspect Schilkes are a lot more consistent than Bachs.

It's not that comparison charts aren't reliable - it's that the mouthpieces themselves aren't always reliable when you see tremendous variability between samples

I think the main reason for studying at least one instrument at a high level is not, necessarily, to make you a better teacher of beginning students, but so you experience the dedication and all the musical nuances you can, which, then, has a carryover value to everything you teach. I'm not sure yo...

For me there is no single common triplet articulation - it depends entirely on the context. I think it's useful and important to be familiar with every possible style of tonguing, but also realize that many times certain notes in a figure wouldn't be tongued, but "articulated" by a lip slur, usually...

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Pretty much all articulation depends on what notes they are, and what position possibilities there are. Often you'd articulate some notes but not others - and if you do the same figure in a different key it might change everything. Nobody said playing jazz was easy, especially on trombone. You have ...

The most important part is what brtnats said - "focuses your attention on fine-tuning your sound"

It opens your mind to other possibilities instead of what so many teach, that everything should be as open as possible all the time - which is not true and limits a lot of players' progress..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsXVZTiIH2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTF2obtACjs Sam Burtis talks about vowel shaping to bring out different overtones in your sound. I do similar stuff with some of my students. I don't agree with everything he says - I have a different approach to buzzing - b...

Rim list updated April 7, see the first post in this topic.

Velcro comes in different strengths. I don't know that bag, but if you want to really hold (and be difficult to separate) get the Industrial kind. I'm pretty sure I've seen it at Home Depot. https://www.velcro.com/products/industrial-strength/ Even with that, the sticky back glue doesn't last foreve...

Student model before the 354. As far as I know they're identical, I don't know any differences.

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