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Harry Hilgers Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 7:42 am Post subject: The Trumpeter’s Personality |
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The Trumpeter’s Personality
There are two sides to a trumpeter’s personality:
1. There is the one that lives only to lay waste to the woodwinds
and strings, leaving them lying blue and lifeless along the swath
of destruction that is a trumpeter’s fury.
2. Then ...... there’s the dark side.
Irving R Bush
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 7:51 am Post subject: |
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I've seen that before. Funny.
Actually, and this is a generalization, but I've found the trumpeters sit around in groups talking about high notes while the sax players discuss chord changes. _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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Harry Hilgers Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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kehaulani wrote: | I've seen that before. Funny.
Actually, and this is a generalization, but I've found the trumpeters sit around in groups talking about high notes while the sax players discuss chord changes. |
Ha ha. I never thought of it that way, but that actually happens in family.
My oldest boy graduated on trumpet. Among other topics, him and I indeed mostly discuss the "high range".
When I want to discuss chord-changes, I turn to my youngest son who graduated on woodwinds but did mostly saxophone. In parallel with his college music education, he took lessons for many years with a professional blues sax player.
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iiipopes Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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My main instrument is actually tuba, even though I play trumpet for a variety of situations. Tuba players talk about the best new microbrew. _________________ King Super 20 Trumpet; Sov 921 Cornet
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blbaumgarn Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:21 am Post subject: the trumpeter's personality |
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I love that quote. It was much later in life when I saw it in an advertising for Bush mouthpieces. I think it describes the trumpet player's mind exactly. Another one of Irving Bush's advertising ditties was, "Put your lips on a Bush." _________________ "There are two sides to a trumpeter's personality,
there is one that lives to lay waste to woodwinds and strings, leaving them lie blue and lifeless along a swath of destruction that is a
trumpeter's fury-then there is the dark side!" Irving Bush |
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Crazy Finn Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:50 am Post subject: |
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kehaulani wrote: | I've seen that before. Funny.
Actually, and this is a generalization, but I've found the trumpeters sit around in groups talking about high notes while the sax players discuss chord changes. |
I hang out with the trombones and talk about beer. _________________ LA Benge 3X Bb Trumpet
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:10 am Post subject: |
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As a stereotype, I have also found the lower brass-beer connection true. Later for high notes and chord changes. They know what's really important. _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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plp Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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We were discussing this one night at rehearsal, and all of us admitted, we would sell a child for a stable high register.
Now 3 of the 6 in the section are band directors, and teach students daily. The #1 thing they warn their high brass against?
Doing damage physically or aurally by playing too high. We want it, but understand, it can either be vulgar or physically limiting.
I personally can attest, high range cannot be achieved by blunt force trauma and is the exact opposite. I expanded my range with soft, long tones, working up chromatically, and just through breaking down the mental wall that I did have a reliable D, or F#, that I could play in performance was I able to add those notes.
And even if I can actually play the note, is it appropriate?
We all agreed, much as we all like to think it isn't our main focus, yep, we are all middle school jocks at heart, even at 77 years old (the oldest one of us, who just this year has stabilized an anytime, all the time 1st ledger B natural, on a good night have heard him nail a LOUD G above that, but is iffy) we want more upper register. _________________ Since all other motives—fame, money, power, even honor—are thrown out the window the moment I pick up that instrument..... I play because I love doing it, even when the results are disappointing. In short, I do it to do it.” Wayne Booth |
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