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The actor Jimmy Stewart told a funny story. He played Glenn Miller in "The Glenn Miller Story". In order to make the trombone playing scenes look better he took 6 months of trombone lessons. In the end they actually welded a quarter into the mouthpiece because whenever he actually played it was awfu...

Seems like a 75% alcohol flush should alleviate most concerns based on the science. (wear mask & gloves when doing flush) Plenty of brass instruments have had drinks spilled on them (and blown through them!) does anyone know of any concerns exposing the various parts to higher concentrations of alc...

... Ya not familiar with Hugh Downs I'll check him out. And ya I put Frakes in there I didn't know till I did this that when ever he sounds super good its BIll Watrous playing. Just out of curiosity what turned you off about the intro was it the music or our introduction? I'm not into notey solos. ...

Brian, understand that our understanding of the spread of COVID-19 changes by the day. If the guidance changes I am open to change my recommendation. It needs a warm-blooded mammal to develop and doesn't seem to enter a suspended state. Originally it was thought to last an hour or less on hard surfa...

Crazy4Tbone86 wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:11 am
That's the beauty of using a piston valve section like that for an attachment......no levers! Of course, you might need to be very creative with your bracing, but the levers are not an issue.

I think he's referring to the old rotor (which I thought was bad and you needed to replace).

We had a topic like this on the old TTF (sadly, it's not in our archive). I haven't had a chance to check out your podcast, but I'm sure you included Jonathan Frakes (played Lt. Riker on Star Trek) who occasionally blew a few notes in an episode or had his part covered by Bill Watrous. Someone you p...

King2bPlus wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:51 am
Does this include all arrangements of Lassus Trombone or just the original? I don't think I've ever played the original. I can't recall ever playing it. Just arrangements by Wolpe and Camarata.

I'm pretty sure Doug refers to any arrangement of the tune, regardless of who did it.

Interesting to read you have completely different protocols. Why is it 5/10 days, because of the moisure which could be inside the trombone? There are conflicting estimates on how long COVID lasts on a flat surface. Some say it lasts a couple of hours on a hard surface and a day on a porous one, wh...

The Pocket Rocket was a device you put in you pocket that supposedly improved your playing. It was a fad a few years ago. Looked like a wood block with a couple of metal cylinders sticking out of it.

harrisonreed wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 08, 2020 6:45 pm
Not if you have the golden lefreque plates of power!!

How about a gold Pocket Rocket?

ABS is pretty firm by itself. Maybe if the piece was printed with a thicker clamp it might work better for you. If I were molding it I'd probably encase a steel plate to add strength, but that's not an option with 3D printing (at least now).

Note that the Alessi horn (T-396) has a soldered-in leadpipe (not replaceable). You probably mean the T-350 model.

I don't think anybody's made one of solid gold. If you did get one, it would probably have to be installed and left in place. Gold is pretty easy to dent or bend. Plus, if you managed to get somebody to make one for you it would probably cost as much as the trombone. You've probably got 2 troy ounce...

I had a blue one. The leadpipe was super tight on that one. But it took a standard large shank mouthpiece just fine. I never could get a decent sound out of mine. Very stuffy and nasally sounding. I ended up selling it because it just sat here. Mine is yellow. If I had my druthers I'd have a purple...

I got a Cool Winds plastic trombone (with the F-attachment). I'm not crazy about the mouthpiece supplied, and my regular large shank mouthpieces wobble. I will try a Remington today, although it doesn't go in that far (a little over 1/2 inch -- maybe 14 mm). The leadpipe seems kinda loose. Has anybo...

i like the ones Doug Yeo put in his 2nd article.

I agree that Pulchinella is a great way to demonstrate glissandi. also the trombone solo from "Buckaroo Holiday".

Without needing to gliss, just playing the Imperial March from Star Wars will show a gleam of recognition.

Thanks for the suggestions, Doug. I think they are as good as the Fillmore pieces in terms of simplicity and entertainment value. My disagreement stems from the rejection of Minstrelsy. It's a part of our musical heritage and suffuses through late 19th and early 20th Century music. Too much very pop...

First, what the satin finish does to your horn depends on how it is done. If the horn is sandblasted o scratch finished, there are micro indentations in the metal . If too much metal is removed it will change the way it plays. Or it may make no difference at all. If the satin finish is an additional...

I doubt they would last for storage over decades, but I wouldn't worry over the course of a year or two.

Elow, you probably saw the recent YouTube by Trent Hamilton showing a 100 year old horn with a trill valve. Trill valves were used on "solo" instruments back then. I don't think you can reconfigure that section to be a trill valve, though. There was a Bach trombone available with a piston valve F-At...

Learn your fundamentals. Learn your theory. Listen to examples of the style.

if Blazhevich was good enough for Jimmy Pankow, it's good enough for you.

You could easily use a large bore valve for the dependent which will make less of a problem with that plug-in.

Thrawn22 wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 05, 2020 2:14 am
Sorta silly having a thayer valve while the plug in has a standard valve.

kinda tough to make a plug-in Thayer.

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Sat Jul 04, 2020 4:50 pm

BGuttman wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 04, 2020 4:19 pm

I am on friendly terms with a Black musician in my orchestra.

There it is, the “I know a black black guy”. Perfect.

I live in the whitest state in the Union. I'm amazed I know one!

Funny how I never get a response to that challenge. I'm not a member of the police force. I can't stop police brutality. I'm not in a position to hire Blacks in my business (I don't have a business). I regularly vote in favor of candidates who espouse equality and fairness. I am on friendly terms w...

I have a book I inherited from my father that was a Groucho Marx humor book. It had a cartoon on the cover of Groucho swinging a mallet onto a stack of 3 heads: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito. The contents were topical humor that quite frankly is dated today. And I don't think ...

Look into the silicone oils: Slide-O-Mix, Rapid Comfort, UltraPure, and especially Yamaha.

Don't want to perform these pieces? Have at it. But to trash them with 21st Century "Woke" attitude is unfair to the time they were written. Sorry, Bruce. That doesn't cut it. Lots of things that were commonplace in the past are considered abhorrent now. You can't just excuse them by saying it was ...

Bach5G wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:00 pm
When I was in music school back in the 70s, the symph bass trb was said to play a Schilke 62.

62 is a small tuba mouthpiece

There's more to Fillmore than the Trombone Family of smears. I should have the choice to play them, or not. I searched this whole thread for the part that says, "Hey guys, let's not allow Schlitz to play anything by Fillmore." Funny, I couldn't find it. :lol: No, but I did read the following: 1. Be...

... And the only reason Fillmore's financial success has any relevance to this thread is the fact that a good deal of it was made literally by exploiting ugly caricatures of Black people. Profit from racist exploitation. Remind you of anything? Slavery maybe? ... A good deal? 15 out of over 300 wor...

Easy on the personal attacks, guys. I'm glad Byron has checked in as traffic cop. If I shut this down there would be all kinds of complaints of prejudice. Fact remains, "The Trombone Family" represents a very small part of Fillmore's output. It was characteristic of a genre that has basically gone a...

I play a shires mostly. I love their style and I love the sound I can make with it. The acid bleed on their bells bothers me though. I’ve heard it’s because they use such a thin coat of lacquer, but I gotta think there’s some way to tighten that part of construction up a bit. My current bell is an ...

Mrzipper, if you are still having problems send me a PM

I had moved it into our Purgatory (in case somebody else decides it should be restored). No, you can't read it there.

Rob, I think the issue might be that all of the pieces you show except the Joplin have (thankfully) passed out of favor. I know I'd have a real problem programming a piece called "De Coon Dat Had De Razor" for anything but a KKK rally.

I would suggest softer. You may find that walnut hell provide plenty of abrasion. You don't need and or carbide bead.

I was able to blast epoxy solder mask off of copper using baking powder in a and blaster (with an airbrush tip).

Another option is Votaw Tools. They have tool and parts.

I should point out that because of the cork barrel design, that won't fit a King 2B, 3B, etc.

40 pound test fishing line is just about the size of the Yamaha string. I also have some 50 pound test fly line leader that's about the right size as well. According to Russ Meyer (Band Instrument Repair), a good line should be polyfilament, 40 pound test, and polyester. Monofilament would be too st...

I've used 40 pound test squidding line. I had some nylon and then some polyester. Nylon tends to stretch but my polyester spool went AWOL. I think I paid under $10 for 500 yards -- about 10 lifetimes' worth. In an emergency I used dental floss. Looked funny, but 3 years later I replaced it from sham...

My students who regularly get pulled over for driving while black are far braver than I ever will be. If any Chat members don't think this happens, they have their heads buried deep. I've known about this for at least 50 years – even here in California. (We are NOT exceptional!) It's depressed me s...

... Just watched the video again and something stuck out to me. When i was at an all state convention i talked to a bassoon salesman and tried a bunch of super expensive bocals (the metal tube that connects reed to instrument) and he was talking about the differences of each one and somehow we got ...

If you use the Full Editor you can upload pictures as attachments. I believe you are limited to three per post. The IMG tag can be used for any image with a URL. Photobucket, Pinterest, etc. The need to label private or public varies with the hosting site. When I review the post and the image doesn'...

There is music for Low Brass Trio (originally alto, tenor, and bass trombone but now horn, trombone, and tuba). I have an Empire Brass piece for low brass trio called "La Alfonsina". I'll bet there are others. If your horn player can learn to read trombone music, you can easily adopt trombone trio m...

The video from Yamaha shows a person spinning the bell.

The video from Rath shows a person spinning the bell'

I haven't seen any videos from Chinese factories.

The slide tube alloy is a nickel-copper alloy. The stuff you are using should work fine. Though the general tenor I see is that nickel tubes tend to be more scratchy than brass, even when well lubed and polished.

Where I'm having trouble with this is how you define Lassus Trombone as racist. No doubt the ad from 1915 has some really problematic descriptions. But absent the title and the description, what is racist? Is it the trombone smears? Stravinsky uses some in "Pulcinella". If you had this piece with a ...

Just look at the title. You want to censor 15 pieces of music for being "unwoke". Where do you go from here? Beckmesser in "Meistersinger" is a caricature of a Jew. Do we now ban Meistersinger> The dialog in Huck Finn shows illiterate Blacks. Do we ditch that as well? OK. I see the Whataboutism cha...

Just look at the title. You want to censor 15 pieces of music for being "unwoke". Where do you go from here? Beckmesser in "Meistersinger" is a caricature of a Jew. Do we now ban Meistersinger? The dialog in Huck Finn shows illiterate Blacks. Do we ditch that as well? OK. I see the Whataboutism char...

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