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Bill Bergren-First lesson January 1982-Moved to Bloomington 1984-
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Pat Harbison 1969-76 (15-20 lessons per year), 1982-85 (35-40 lessons per year), sporadically since.
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We're trying to put names with dates. Who are you in real life?
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Brad Goode; Drove from Chicago once per month from 1990-1994.
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I studied with Mr. Adam in the seventh grade (1956-1957) and as a sophomore at I.U. (1963-1964)
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Took my first lesson in summer 2006 and again in 2007, then came to grad school at IU in fall 2008 and have been studying with him consistantly since.
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First lesson in the summer of 2001. On and off since then but more frequently when I was doing my masters at IU ('06-08).
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Drove to Bloomington from Indpls every other weekend from 1982 through 1984. Mr Adam spent summers in CO in those days. Took about 45 lessons in total.
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| Bill Coburn wrote: | | I studied with Mr. Adam in the seventh grade (1956-1957) and as a sophomore at I.U. (1963-1964) |
Tell us what it was like with Adam as a 7th grader?
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I studied at IU from '93-'99 BM & MM, studying with John Rommel. I also took lessons from Mr. Adam from '96-'99.
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| Billy B wrote: | | Bill Coburn wrote: | | I studied with Mr. Adam in the seventh grade (1956-1957) and as a sophomore at I.U. (1963-1964) |
Tell us what it was like with Adam as a 7th grader? |
I studied with my late father, Clyde W. Coburn, from 1954-1956. Dad was a trombone player and the Martinsville, IN High School band director from 1952-1955 before he began conducting junior high shool bands for the last twenty-two years of his teaching career. In essence, he told me he had exhausted his knowledge of brass methods and that he had make arrangements to hand me off to Mr. Adam, so my mother drove me to Bloomington for Wednesday night lessons for almost a year at the end of what must have been a very long day for Mr. Adam until August of 1957 we moved to New Mexico just before I entered the eighth grade. Mom was still a homemaker and unobtrusively supervised my daily practice.
Of course, I was in awe of Mr. Adam, who was about a year younger than Dad but far more approachable. I think we usually ended my lesson by playing duets from the Arban Book. Mr. Adam would usually have me play the top part on a brand new $300.00 1955 Conn Constellation cornet Dad had purchased after two years of playing a Pan American cornet, but Mr. Adam also allowed my to play one of his rotary valve trumpets, and I was enthralled when we played trumpets together. Mr. Adam would have preferred I play one of the "three B's" (Bach, Benge or Besson), but I was happy to have graduated from my Pan American to my Constellation.
Mr. Adam had me do two things I highly recommend to increase my lung capacity and my ability to play with a fuller sound. He would tape a small piece of paper to a wall at my head height and bend it at two 90 degree angles so that the paper paralled the wall about four or five inches from it.
He asked us to purchase a piece of copper tubing about nine inches long from a hardware store and asked Mom to paint one end of the tubing for an inch with clear fingernail polish, I suppose to avoid copper poisoning.
I would place a chair behind me in case I began to feel faint, then stand with the copper tubing about a foot from the piece of paper and parallel to the ground, take a deep, diaphragmatic breath and blow steadily for as long as I could, pinning the paper to the wall. I would do this exercise for a few minutes, attempting to increase the amount of time I could pin the paper to the wall without seeing too many spots in front of my eyes.
Mr. Adam also had us purchase a set of stainless steel coil springs (four springs, I think) with red wooden handles that I was to use to expand my chest. I found the springs very difficult to use even when I was older, but I admired Mr. Adam's barrel chest and his almost inexhaustable lung capacity (assuming he wasn't employing circular breathing), so I tried to use the springs periodically in spite of the fact I could barely move them.
Mr. Adam was an ardent practitioner of yoga, which I'm sure helped him relax and stretch, but he didn't push it, so I didn't join him in that practice.
Although we has approaching forty years of age when I began studying with him, Mr. Adam said he had never been stronger in his life and could still pick up his end of a six-hundred pound log when working around his cabin at Steamboat Springs, CO in the summer. I admired his strength and wished I could have spent a summer with him, but that was not to be.
When I transferred back to I.U. as a college sophomore six years later, I spent one more year studying trumpet with Mr. Adam before switching to a voice/opera major after finding I was so far behind my colleagues by then, some of whom weren't even playing a horn when I began studying with Mr. Adam. However, I now enjoy playing periodically in church and with community bands, chamber orchestras, jazz ensembles and brass ensembles and am known for my "big, round sound," thanks to Bill Adam.
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Thanks so much for that story Bill!
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