It's over - thanks guys

[lubonv]

Yeah, Dave, thank you for the great contribution!

Somebody not really interested only in range may also choose a slide trumpet!!!

Lb

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[Crazy Finn]

I've played trumpet for over 20 years, now. I've never played a DHC in my life. I'd be cool, but honestly, I've got other trumpet things to work on. I've never needed range like that in any of the gigs I've done. Granted, I'm not a jazz or lead player. There's nothing wrong with range like that, of course.

If you're judging your success or skill as a trumpet player only on your range - you're using the wrong criteria. I know I'm a much better musician than some people who can play in that range. There are others many who can't play in that range that are also better musicians than me. And, of course, there are many who can play up there and are better than me as well. That's fine. I play the best I can, when I can. I try to enjoy what I play, and when I play. If it's not fun, why do it?
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[Ed Lee]

Studied trumpet/cornet and other horns in both public schools and college and none of the methods here were mentioned. Thus, haven't studied them so I've no comment about them. I bought my first Arban's book on my own just as I bought or acquired sheet music that I perceived as being more challenging, and that said my first Arban's book began falling apart so bad that I bought another to use.

Going back to public schools when in retrospect I believe I had a great teacher and band director, in general he told us not to be concerned about DHX ... let the pic trumpets do it, as we then had two rotaries. Thus, in my retrospect we pretty steadily played from the C below staff to the G# immediately above the staff about 95+% of the time as IMO the best tonal sound for trumpet/cornet is (especially student quality instrument) and again IMO where 95+% of the music for trumpert/cornet is written.

I first laid down my instruments to pursue life priorities and set aside debt, even working part-time while in USAF at various jobs inclusive of many photo ops. The boom fell when now ex pawned / sold my instruments and many other possessions, but I then rented another instrument for college but that added more debt as required two jobs to lay aside allowing no time or instrument to play beyond college

Joining up with an old USAF buddy we launched a going photo studio and photo product supply partnership until his untimely accidental death and I got hung high and dry with most of the business debt owing to fact that neither of us had considered key employee insurance or incorporated. On the street hustling as many jobs as I could do ... including night watchman ... until that debt was laid aside. I then was hired for training as recruit in law enforcement as within I went to night school and achieved second BS in police science and criminolgy and applied to the Feds and was accepted, not to again pick up the horns again until disabled about 30 years later.

Other threads pick up my story from here to the present when due to currrent health and dental issues my horns just lay in their cases or around me and taunt me. At sometime in the future I'll comeback or be dead before I can. You'd say it might be much worse for me to now listen to my own recordings but it isn't ... such is more the incentive for me to return because I now know what my ability in music truly is (and what it is not).

[John Mohan]