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I tried measuring with a caliper and a Scherr-Tumico micrometer. These measurements depend on the roundness of the tubes and... they're not. So the error band is significant here. But very roughly, the OD of the inner slide on my mini pBone is .546 and the stockings are .561. I think if your slide i...

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I have discovered something from the mask experiences. When I have to do speaking parts with others like recitations in church, etc., and have to wear a mask, I found it impossible to get a full breath. All there is time for is a quick nose sniff and that isn't nearly enough air to get through the p...

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Bruce, I'm at work, but I'll measure both pBones when I get home. I have a plastic tenor and an alto. I moved to the alto this summer when I was having left wrist issues and that's what I've been doing my morning warmups on. I do occasionally play the brass tenor in the evening. In COVID times with ...

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Fidbone wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:33 am

However Wycliffe Gordon on his Yamaha 891Z takes some beating "Musically speaking".

Yeah. I heard him live at ETW/ATW some years back and if there'd been windows in there they would have cracked.

I think shower tile would be at risk.

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Narrow slides are uncomfortable on my neck. Guess there's problems either way.

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One of my favorite stories. The American high school in Germany was shrinking as the Army downsized, and the band had graduating seniors, so the director asked me and a local trumpet teacher to sit in. I'd played some of the football games and musicals and my daughters were in the school so the kids...

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If I free buzz an F on the staff it feels allright. If I buzz the same tone on the mpc it feels the same to me. If I again buzz the F in the mpc and while keeping the buzz and take the mpc of my lips the buzz stops. If I play the F on any of my horns I do recognise the buzz as the same as free or m...

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Off topic, but how do you get through Reinhardt 57 that fast? It takes me a good hour if I do all 5 sets. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

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I use the Zoom into my laptop running the free Audacity. When you plug it into the laptop, you choose storage or audio. That's the only time you could screw up. Hit the red button, play, hit the stop button, playback. So simple even I can do it. My laptop is connected to an old stereo and some decen...

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This is what I used to think. But now I find I can buzz a note with the tongue in an "ee" position, then gliss the tongue to an "ah", and the pitch will follow down with what feels to me like no change in lips. And reverse. Then I find I can gliss the tongue in the same way, but maintain the pitch....

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I don't know, but i would guess if/when it does work there are a couple things involved. One is that a gliss requires steady air and reveals pretty quickly when you're not doing it. Unsteady air and articulating with air are common problems. Another might be that good tone requires your lip buzzing ...

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Doug Elliott wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:35 am
Make your own out of that copper tubing I mentioned.

And then keep it secure in your locker, or the others will "borrow" it.

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baileyman wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:38 am
If you are a full floppy JJ or Kenny Shroyer shifter, then the momentum of a light slide on the fingers could be a big difference.

Also if your choice of positions requires frequent reversal of direction, the effect of both arm and slide weight would be increased.

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I second the exercise idea and the grip and rest ideas. I went through some pretty severe right shoulder pain a few years back, diagnosed as impingement syndrome after an expensive MRI (which you do NOT want to pay for without good insurance. Even with it wasn't cheap.) My doctor recommended surgery...

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Dave, good to hear from you. I thought you might weigh in, I remember you talking about apt-get once so your linux-fu is strong. I'm only playing with this drive because I happened to have it, I'm trying to solve a backup problem on a laptop that has no CD drive and software that blocks thumb drives...

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Did you put Bondo underneath? Or Superglue? JB Weld :evil: JBWeld stopped the leak at the top of my daughter's Volvo radiator and it held several years, was still going strong when we eventually junked the car. (blown head gasket on a 1991 with some other problems, it was time to move on). If it ca...

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Nope, it shows the hard drive and the CD drive but not the external.

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I have a need for an external drive to back up some email, and I can't use my main backup for various reasons. It has to be encrypted and work with Win10. Digging through the drawers I came across a USB drive enclosure I used many years ago to recover some data from one of my children's laptops. For...

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People who run a rod through the inners are probably more coordinated than me. I never risk it. Once in a great while a brush on a cable, and then only when inside the outers. I've started leaving the outer slide upside down on the assembled horn on the stand to let it thoroughly dry. That's because...

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I think there is a distinction between a breaking up tone that gets buzzier and buzzier, and seems to be related to exceeding the strength of the chops, and a blat that doesn't get buzzy but is too loud to seem musical depending on the context. I can overblow and it gets buzzy, but I haven't figured...

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The correct slide grip should facilitate quick relaxed straight line slide motion. So as long as the slide grip is subordinate to the main focus, it can work. It seems to me that the slide grip is the third priority - first being the straight line slide motion, second focus being the wrist and forea...

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MobileSheets has a free and a pro version. The pro was about $12 so I bought it. It has some advantages over the iPad version but of course both work well.

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I just measured my cup mute bottom at 3.5 inches. Interesting. Most tape measures have inches on one edge and centimeters on the other. This one has sixteenths marks on one and thirty-seconds on the other. No wonder it was cheap. But I digress. I grabbed a ruler for the metric folk here and it's abo...

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I work in clinical trials research . It seems likely to me that at least one of these will be found to be safe and 'effective'. Because of the urgency of the situation, the FDA will accept a 50% reduction in serious COVID cases as meeting the effectiveness criterion. (That is very low.) These vacci...

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IMO. To discern a difference requires playing at an extremely high level - both in terms of note to note, day to day, consistency, and in having very refined listening skills. There are people on this forum who do both, and it makes sense to listen to them. It doesn't necessarily make sense that the...

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Bach5G wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 12, 2020 3:56 pm
I found a wooden mallet at a Michael’s. In the leatherworks section.

Crab mallet, about $5 at Walmart.

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If you aren't on Apple, Mobilesheets is very good. I'm using it on a Kindle Fire 10. That's big enough for home use, I probably need the 12.9 if I were still playing anywhere, so might have to go iPad and forScore. I wanted to go with a 2n1 Chromebook but most of them have discontinued the 3:2 displ...

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Just found this with a simple Google search of "Does mass impact pitch?" https://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0el/webct/de361s71_folder/tsld004.html To summarize.....as mass increases, pitch decreases. Think of the mass on a man's vocal cords versus a woman's vocal chords of the same length. This is correct....

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One thing I would suggest is to play some of the exercises in other keys. Jim Scott That was one of the complaints of that trumpet teacher I linked to. His other complaint was the lack of any high range. He solved both by rewriting the PD version from IMSLP in many more keys. He calls it New Arbans...

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Balance weight lowering pitch is new to me, and to physics, and as far as I know to trombone players in general. I've heard many many assertions that mass affects timbre, but pitch is a new claim. I can't see a reason why it would work, and fall back on the old dictum "extraordinary claims demand ex...

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Here is a pretty good approach: http://www.bbtrumpet.com/how-to-practice-arban-clarke-schlossberg/ For extra credit, use a trumpet book (or the public domain IMSLP). Go through the first time reading as Bb treble. Second time as alto, third time mezzo soprano. That will take about a year and a half ...

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There are 8 sections.

You do one page of each for a week and then move on. In 30 odd weeks you've gone through it. There's a sheet somewhere with the page numbers by a trumpet player, I'll see if I can find it.

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What’s some other solutions? I’m in florida and it’s constantly like 90 degrees and i’m always at least 20 cents sharp with my tuning slide as far out as it can be Super hot outside temperatures are the only reason I ever move the tuning slide, the rest of the time it's all the way in. But really, ...

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But that makes comparison between soldered and unsoldered muddier because there are so many other factors that can show differences in how the two bells play. Get two unsoldered bells and compare. I haven't done it but I'll bet they are different. Then get two soldered bells and compare. Ditto. The...

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Nicks on what is essentially part of our instrument are a reality, so we can either reduce them as far as possible with the best blades, or go electric. I went electric over this years ago and haven't regretted it.

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I kind of like the idea of an alto without a main tuning slide, in theory anyway, as long as it is short enough to always get in tune. Using alternates to avoid 1st is a pain on alto. I also wonder if you really need a water valve at all on an alto. The slide is short enough to just yank it off and ...

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Hmm. If you leave your main tuning slide all the way in anyway on a nonTIS horn, doesn't the same apply here? You would never move the TIS mechanism? So maintenance would be minimal. Of course you don't have a main tuning slide on a TIS horn, IIRC, so you'd need to adjust for extreme heat/cold, but ...

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I think there are probably two kinds of harm in racist art (as opposed to more direct harm like not being hired, not being able to rent, not getting access to justice system, etc.) One is the effect of offending members of the group. The other is the effect of encouraging racism on the part of other...

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When the zinc is removed from the brass alloy, the remaining copper is oxidized and is not solderable. It also is very brittle, which is why holes develop easily. This is not galvanic action like electroplating. There's no battery or wires involved. I think it is probably galvanic, but as you say c...

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What happens is that the solder prevents the red rot from migrating to the patch. Red rot is caused by something (usually moisture with some acidity) extracting the zinc from the brass. Kind of a nitpick, but I think the moisture facilitates the zinc extraction by allowing electrical current, rathe...

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Rivet? Sure. Say you can drill out the rot with a 1/4" bit. Then insert a small piece of 1/4" brass rod. At this point, silver solder it in or not (not sure). Continue, using a suitable anvil and hammer, pound the disk, expanding its diameter (riveting). Then file the disk flat in contour with the ...

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Elow wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:35 am
What’s the harm in just replacing the part?

Grandfather's axe.

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Other things being equal, IMO moisture is the enemy of brass. I don't see how a horn is going to dry out packed in a case. If children, pets, and general clumsiness allow I think the best storage is probably on a stand with outer slide pulled off and hung on the handslide brace. I started doing that...

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what he said, not this:
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Electrical- ... 5yc1vZbmcy

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools ... /100660166

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I have little to add to the conversation at this point. Perhaps a couple of thoughts: I ducked out when it became clear only one opinion without nuances was allowed, and was harassed publicly AND privately. I don't disagree with not playing Lassus but there are many pieces and composers more egregi...

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You mentioned you already have a MIDI keyboard. Is it more of a touch pad system, or is it set up like a standard piano keyboard? If you are just using it for midi input, I don't think weighted keys are really necessary. When my kids took piano lessons their progress took off when we got a digital ...

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I was curious so I googled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil It's not so clear if snake oil ever came from snakes. It seems unlikely in the US, but in 18th century UK there are references to "viper oil" for curing rheumatism, etc. (nonspecific illnesses that wax and wane naturally so are well...

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Any how does anybody really know that "NONE of them sound like what you actually sound like" since you can't actually hear yourself from a distance? I've always wondered that! And then I heard Christopher Bill say that trombone is not that complex a sound and not that hard to mike. Hmmm. I do think...

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Also pick the right room. Huge difference! probably more than the mike.

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I use a Zoom H2.

At home I connect it directly to the laptop and record on Audacity rather than on the internal memory.

At concerts and rehearsal it records onto an SD card so you have a handy portable digital recorder as well as a USB microphone for home use.

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