Who's the oldest player on TH ??

J. Wigdahl · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:51 am Post subject: Who's the oldest player on TH ??

Silly question, I know, but as a 49 year-old comeback player I'd like to get a sense of how much longer I can expect to play, and play well. Also, what aspects of playing will become more difficult as I grow older and in what ways might my playing at 85 surpass my playing at 25?? Thanks for your time and thoughts.
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swordfishtrombone · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:14 am Post subject:

Jeez, son, you're still a kid yet! But to answer your original question-
It's gotta be either Dale Proctor(aka- Ambassador Cop) or that kid with the Monette: McBugle!

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JakeUND · Heavyweight Member Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 589

I'm only 19, but some days after staying out late, doing things and whatever, I feel like I'm 119, haha. Maybe it's not that bad, but on to your question. Doc Severinsen(not a trumpetherald user, I don't think so anyway) is playing more than amazing well into his 70's. I've heard he works out and stuff to keep in shape, but if that's what you'd have to do, to be able to play trumpet, I know I'd do it. It depends how you take care of yourself. I know that Mr. Jerome Callet is also of a greater age, 70-80 I believe, and I've heard of him playing notes up in the Triple High range. It depends on how bad you want to be playing. If you really really love doing something, you'll do anything to keep on doing it.

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oldlou · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:33 am Post subject: Oldest member

I don't know about here, but, in the two community bands that I play in I am the oldest player in each at age seventy.

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Dale Proctor · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:42 am Post subject:

BIGBUSHI · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: Longevity

I play in a big band with an old pro in his eighties. We split the lead part and he does all the improvisation. He can play a G over high C all night long. He is flat out amazing and fearless! I'm a 48 year old comeback player and having the time of my life. Go for it.
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petere · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject:

Our local New Horizon Band has a couple guys in their mid 80s who enjoy telling hilarious WW II stories between sets. Back in 44, one of these trumpet players drank so much french wine that he could not stand up, then got court martialed, and had to clean the latrines for a week. Its hard to play trumpet when you're laughing.

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Trumpeter58 · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject:

oldlou has me beat by ten years, but I play beside a gentlemen in two community bands who just had his 86th birthday. He's been playing regularly for over 63 years. When people ask him why he practices, he tells them that if he doesn't, his lip goes away in a hurry. The prof. who teaches trumpet and directs the jazz ensemble that I play in at our local university is within a few months of my age. He says that if he doesn't practice for one day, he knows it....two days and the guy in the next chair knows it, and three days...the director of the philharmonic orchestra he plays in knows it. Now, at three years and three months into my comeback I'm not as good as I was when I was 15, and the way things are going I may never enjoy that level of proficiency again, but I'm having lots of fun giving it my best shot.
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swordfishtrombone · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:18 am Post subject:

swordfishtrombone · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:20 am Post subject: Re: Oldest member

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_dcstep · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:29 am Post subject:

Hey Jim, ole buddy. Remember me from rmmt and rmmgj? This is Dave, now in Denver, but formerly in Dallas.

I'm almost 59 and playing trumpet as well as ever.

I played in the Dallas Christian Jazz Band that had (has?) a lead player in his late 80s (Vaughn Sinclair) that played lead with Les Brown, Radio City Music hall, etc. then became a dentist, retired from that and came back stronger than ever.

Are you still playing guitar also? I am. I write reviews for Just Jazz Guitar and slowly better. (I'll always be better on trumpet, but guitar is great fun).

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A.N.A.Mendez · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:18 am Post subject:

Notice none of the ladies have stepped to the plate!

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janet842 · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:32 am Post subject:

Gosh, I guess we're just outclassed (out-aged?) by all the oldsters on here.

beartrumpet74 · Veteran Member Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 182

I would submit that none of these people are old just "Vintage" like most of the horns people talk about on TH

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oldlou · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:53 am Post subject:

pfeifela · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject:

The main thing I notice is that my face gets a lot redder and sometimes I lose a little urine into my pants.
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oldlou · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject: Getting older

My face also gets rather ruddy, but, what used to happen in my pants doesn't seem to quite as readily any more. I am NOT talking about losing urine in there.

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