It's interesting that he left Ball State, because I know a former tenured trumpet professor who left there as well - to do not particularly anything.
I don't think it's because they disliked their job, but I think it was a thing of them and their spouse working in totally different cities ...

I thought it was a furniture store, but he definitely went back to manage his family’s store. I believe he taught at what is now Texas State University for a short time after he left BSU

I was going to ask what happened to Ian. Last I saw, maybe 5 years ago on social media, he was in Arizona, had a new girlfriend, and was playing with several groups. Then, he disappeared on social media, haven’t seen him on here either. I hope he is doing well.

I sort of wish they hadn't published that picture but that's neither here nor there now. I'm glad someone else shared some videos of him at a happier time.


Yeah, I would maybe wonder if @russiantuba could pull that pic and just leave the text written on it in the body of the post.




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Lower frequencies need space to expand. This was a big issue when a studio had lower ceilings installed in the studio after asbestos removal. My professor complained and now my basement has even lower ceilings and I have felt some of this phenomena where it sounds brighter and I get resistance.

It ...

Posted by Steve Marcus’s family:

Those of you who knew Steve as a robust musician, tuba and piano player will be sorry to hear that he has been stricken with a severe form of Parkinson's disease called Multiple Systems Atrophy.

He can be reached at Alden Valley Ridge in Bloomingdale or through ...

I’ve always used held Es on CC as 12, even before OSU as I found it easier to tune and pull a slide. Jim basically convinced me on the tone color addition to it, though certain excerpts he thought should have a duller sound, Mahler 5 tuba solo in the first movement, Mahler 6 after the solo, should ...

I'm waiting for someone to make a straight-up copy of a 19-inch bell / 32-inch-tall 4/4 York (bell and bugle - with a modern found section of whatever it seems to be the optimum bore size) without PRE-chopping it to C...

... and with pre-war gauge slightly heavier bell sheet metal, rather than ...

As for the 832, I think one of the biggest issues I had with it was the bore was quite small for the rate of taper. I think if they would have put a larger bore on it, it would have been a better horn. I spent a bit of time on an 832 a couple years ago after hearing all the hype, and thought it was ...

Same thing with the slide. I tell students oftentimes to lead with the valves. Ghitalla would have students pound the valves, and this is important with lyrical playing. I tend to recommend the opposite in faster passages, depending on the player.

Also, pitch centering on the partials is probably ...

Voted: this is such a wonderful organization.

@bloke

There is a board feature that might interest you if you didn’t know, which I believes hides all posts a person makes. They can still see your stuff.

https://i.ibb.co/gMgPZbYr/IMG-7069.jpg

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As I get older and older, the Jacobs sayings on paralysis by analysis and the mental ...

How many artists would know that tuba was used, assuming these were made a quarter of a century later? Berlioz did not add the ophicleide to his orchestras, as it was already being used (1817 patent) and the serpent before that. The serpent parts are more often played on contrabassoon now, and other ...

There was a quiz a few years back that went through several stylistic errors and had AI write a piece in the style and then had a piece that was actually composed in that style.

I got 100%, though one of the pieces was Tchaik 5. This was a very hard quiz, particularly on the Baroque keyboard pieces ...

Chi brass is a mouthpiece company with great products based in the northern burbs. Ian is a great person too.

I made the pilgrimage to the fine arts building to see the legendary Jacobs teaching studio and later by his house on 8839 S. Normal Ave last time I was there. I probably looked beyond ...

To be honest, I still sometimes mess up fingerings or get mental lapses between the two, not often but sometimes and I have seen it happen to other pros. Once was at a recent audition--which wasn't very well ran (one of the fellow competitors who has taken over 50 auditions even let me know that he ...

Also, anecdotally, playing on smaller equipment helps, and (weirdly) playing BBb tuba helps. I almost never have those issues on BBb. I probably have CICCT (conservatory-induced CC trauma).


I think Jan recommends smaller equipment for recovery as I have heard (for some it doesn’t manifest on ...

MuseScore is not Finale, Sibelius, or Dorico. A couple of hours is not nearly enough time to understand how it differs and become used to those differences. Give it more time.


No kidding…otherwise there would be no complaints from anyone. I will mention the program was crashing a couple of ...

I’ve only heard of the Bell Scales, and I agree that the Baer version that are cross training between horns but the same format, are a great fundamental routine. I normally take the F tuba ones down an octave since I normally play them earlier on.

I’d be curious in the rest. Three other routines I ...

Did a few hours on MuseScore today. I had Finale 2012 prior, and I will say once I learned how to do the slur and dynamic entry, it was easier and cleaner. It didn't import XML very well, and when transposing parts to a third or whatnot, the slurs didn't maintain well. If and when you enter a note ...