Anyone does the "twirl"?

Satchel · Veteran Member Joined: 12 Apr 2021 Posts: 115

Neat onstage trick, by Mr Collier:

https://youtu.be/2tEobvw8-A8?t=155[youtube]https://youtu.be/2tEobvw8-A8?t=155[/youtube]

Crazy Finn · Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 7:35 pm Post subject:

Nope.
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Brad361 · Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 6:35 am Post subject:

Those guys have a separate ring soldered on their horns to do that.

And it would be a “nope” from me too, even though I play in a somewhat similar type band.

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kehaulani · Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 6:56 am Post subject:

My ring is not soldered. I leave the horn stationary while I twirl around it.
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Brad361 · Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 1:52 pm Post subject:

Shark01 · Veteran Member Joined: 10 Jun 2017 Posts: 283

We did spinning all the time in the 70s with no modifications at all. Every now and then a trumpet would clang down the metallic bleacher seats when it would fall off someone's finger during a game.

The other thing we did back then that is probably not allowed today is the guillotine.....if you weren't paying attention you would get smacked in the face by the trumpet next to you. Damn it looked good though, worth some dental work.

Brad361 · Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 3:01 pm Post subject:

RandyTX · Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 4:13 pm Post subject:

I'll admit that I used to do this, way back in high school. On a strad, you can tighten down the 3rd slide nuts all the way and it's pretty easy. Before anyone freaks out too badly, I was doing it with my own instrument, bought from the money I made at my after-school job, not risking train-wrecking a horn my folks paid for.

No disaster ever occurred, but I've not really done it since then, either, and I still own the same trumpet today. Old school band director, only used trumpets in stage band or on a football field, the cornet was the preferred instrument and more to be preserved and kept undamaged. /shrug

One weird little historical footnote. Found the sales receipt and what I paid for it back when I was a sophomore in H.S. and back when you could walk into a music store and try out 15-20 trumpets in person, or however many you had time to sample, before buying one. Put that sales amount into an inflation calculator, and was pretty surprised to learn that the current day brand new Bach 37 sells for basically exactly the same (retail) as it did a little over 40 years ago. It's not about material costs, or skilled labor, or minimum wage, apparently, but purely about inflation and devaluation of the dollar over time.
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Satchel · Veteran Member Joined: 12 Apr 2021 Posts: 115

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Satchel · Veteran Member Joined: 12 Apr 2021 Posts: 115

Nice! I imagine there being a few bad bruises and chipped teeth, and the instrument repairman rubbing his hands watching rehearsals

homebilly · Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 6:35 am Post subject:

i prefer spinners
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