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bilboinsa
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| BengeBoy wrote: | | ...Does anyone have advice or experience in starting some sort of brass group at a Catholic church, or at least incorporating brass or wind instruments into existing music groups? |
Tim:
My suggestion would be to contact the music director/organist/choir director, and just tell them you would be interested in adding the trumpet to their ministry. A good intro would be to let him/her know that you could tranpose existing music (it's easy after awhile--just take the hymnals note up a whole step and add 2 sharps to the key) Then, you can just sub in on the music and blend in with other voices singing the melody. As time progresses, work into some easy harmonies or descant lines.
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thedevilisbad
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| Don Herman rev2 wrote: | Carpet samples. Can be obtained at carpet stores.
Just realized I gotta' bow out of this one -- I'm Presbyterian!  |
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shastastan
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Hey Don. From the description you gave of playing Taize', there's no doubt that you experienced it to the fullest  When I started playing it, I looked at the melody and then my part and really wondered how it could possibly fit together. Being a rookie, I practiced my part over and over again until I had it down good. When I played with group, everything fit together just fine. I did have to learn to play a lot softer compared to other groups that I played with though.
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chopissimo
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| shastastan wrote: | (...)
Maybe someone will invent a horn warmer and we can sit at the end of the pew to grab it to use and also watch over it.  |
 Actually, someone worked on somekind of a heating device to use in cold weather, that was a few years ago, but it did not seem to receive much interest. It looked like a soft case covering the trumpet, with a little heating box attached to the leadpipe. Cumbersome!
 However, I am experimenting with something to keep my horn warm while on its stand...
Would anyone reading this be interested in such a contraption?
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