Better every year . . . .

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You won't go wrong with Rich!!!

Paul

P.S.

Doc routinely accepted phone calls from 11pm to 12am if you had a problem or a question about your lesson. It wasn't the ideal way to solve problems but it could hold you until your next visit. Doc had students traveling and calling from all over the world including Australia. It was just the reality of the situation then as it is today. I really hope you enjoy working with Rich.



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Actually the last time I called Rich was at midnight. His request. Maybe that's where he got it.
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Hey, folks. Well, today's the last day I'll be able to "conveniently" log on for awhile. But I wanted to say to Jesse, man, that was a great post (your first one in this thread). I noticed that it silenced some of our more outspoken Reinhardt resistors (it still strikes me as funny that they feel it necessary to come to this forum and defend their mind-over-matter methods—deep down they must know that they've been sold a bill of goods and are keeping their options open for they day their embouchures fall apart and they don't know how to get it back, the original point of this thread), and that's always a good thing. In fact, I think your post is one of the best I've ever read to explain why mind-over-matter is a fallible teaching method.

But I digress.

To our "outside posters" I would like to say the following: The Reinhardt guys aren't paranoid . . . we know that we have the answer.

We don't feel the need to debate, because we know that the others will probably never listen.

The Reinhardt guys don't hide their true identities . . . I don't know about anybody else, but I find that to be the single most annoying way to present ideas on a forum such as this. If you're so smart, why are you afraid (paranoid?) to tell us who you really are.

And the number of ways that Reinhardt is misspelled? You ought to be glad that adding an S to Adam is pretty much the only common misspelling of your hero.

And I think Chris hit the nail on the head when talking about why other teachers' methods are more "popular" (and teachers of their principles are easier to find) than Reinhardt . . . it's the same reason hardly anybody reads all the way through a huge book of directions to learn their new software package. Reinhardt spelled it all out so completely, and most brass players find it too tedious to do all that reading and studying and memorizing . . . most brass players will opt for the "easier, softer way." They're missing out on so much, and they are precisely the guys who don't get better ever year for the rest of their life. I've taught many of them when their chops have started deteriorating . . . Bill Adam students, Carmine Caruso students, Don Jacoby students . . . they'll invariably tell me they aren't using their air correctly and how great their range and endurance was 10-15 years ago. Give me a break.

And "popular" definitely doesn't mean better. Just turn on Top 40 radio to find that out.

So, there you have it . . . we're moving into our new place on August 29th, and I'll be using computer at the library and at others' houses until sometime after that, so I will be sporadically lurking at best. (We're renting a furnished condo in the interim.)

I hope some of the points I've made make some sense to some of you out there. To the really dense "outsiders" I say, "God bless them, for they know not what they do."

Rich
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