Bloke..... I can, in a way agree with you, but as I normally see it, temperature is an atmospheric condition that might affect the sound AFTER it is produced by the player, and as it leaves the instrument. The horn would react to the temperature ........ "pun intended"...... to a degree, d...

Well......... as we all know........ there are only three variables when playing a brass instrument.......... the instrument, the mouthpiece, and the player. When all three line up like the lucky stars, you have the best of everything. When one of those three is "faulty", the search for th...

Thank you!! I passed the info on to my friend.

I believe this was identified before, but it was just sent to me by a friend, and I can't remember what (meaning... who made it) or where it is. Can someone identify it (again) for me?

Thanks.

Accepting average isn't what I was talking about. The people I've been following and listening to, regularly, are way beyond outstanding!!! Average is what you might get when you have to find someone at the last minute as a pay per service sub. At that point they'll take just about anyone to fill th...

I can understand NY and Boston, etc., having no hires in their searches.They're on an incredibly high level. But there are many others that are one or two, or even several..... many, steps below those that are acting like they are God's gift to the music world. Being a former music educator, I under...

My daughter, some of her friends, and classmates (Eastman grads, Rice grads, other university grads and grad students) have been auditioning for a number of orchestras, from regional to orchestras in very, very, well to do communities across the country. Several of the orchestras announce after audi...

Anybody noticing an increase of "no hires" following orchestral auditions?

DonO: I had gotten very ill about four or five years ago....... severe cold and sinus infection. I was traveling at the time, so I was going to Urgent Care places until I got home. Cutting to the chase......... the virus attacked my Thyroid. From there things spiraled downhill quickly. End result wa...

I find it truly amazing that those who write doctoral theses....... pass, get their grad/doctorate degree, use that thesis as the impetus to then write a textbook further pushing their original point with their own slant on the subject matter. After getting a job teaching at a college or university,...

It's merely a demo mouthpiece. Nothing different about it. (I asked the Laskey rep what the "X" meant.) Last summer I was lucky enough to be "lent" several tryout kits to try a plethora of mouthpieces. Every one of them had that "X" on them. After deciding on which mode...

Arp!!........ ..........or No Deal!! :cheers: As suggested, I'm gonna keep it out and play it more. It's much easier to center the tones on it, the response is nice and easy, I don't tire as fast, and I need to get used to the 1-3 valve combination again for low C & F. I can't tell you how many ...

My opinion........ Good parents always want their offspring to turn out better than themselves. Not only that, but good parents always work at facilitating things toward that goal. It's not an easy job by any stretch and it may be costly, monetarily....... but it's always worth the investment. Congr...

Today I was forced to get my old tuba out and practice for a rehearsal tomorrow evening. My Mirafone 186 took a tumble out of it's stand the other day. My heart stopped when I heard the crash. Crinkled the bell a good bit, but it's at the shop as I type, getting hammered back into shape. Anyway, in ...

Well.... I just saw them last night. WOW!!! As the show went on they just got stronger and better. They did a couple of weird things, but as the tunes went on, they evolved into some very nice pieces. Amazing talent, amazing technique, amazing ranges, amazing and effortless command of their instrume...

Going to see them tonight!!!

Carpal Tunnel???

I had a few conversations with Scott Laskey several years ago regarding mouthpiece selections. I told him that I was playing a Mirafone 186 rotary valve, and what type of playing I was doing. His immediate response was, "You need a 28G! You could also use a 28H, but the 28G will give you a litt...

I loved his work!! In college, my friends and I used to sit in an empty band room in the evenings and listen to his PDQ Bach records. Great stuff. Somewhere in my boxes of LP's, I have a few of them.
Too bad he's gone.

After looking at it a bit closer just now, I saw that the fourth valve linkage screw head is different than the other three screws. Much larger and thicker head, and it has two spacers (thicker than the washers on the other valve assemblies) between the head and the linkage. Putting a light on thing...