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andybharms
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A lot of you know me but maybe don’t know that I teach trumpet at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. I wanted to invite anybody curious to chat with me.
Colby is small, which is a feature in my opinion. I’m told that we are quite the destination especially for baseball! We are opening a new music building next Fall, and we are all very excited for that. Classes are small and personal, geared for music technology, composition, education, and bio-med who are music minors. I think this is where we shine… helping educators get trained and music as a secondary interest. A very healthy endeavor. We have quite a good orchestra in which faculty, local pros, and students play. I am proud of the level. Even large flagship music schools sometimes have difficulty pulling together an orchestral program, and ours is good. Everybody is invested.
Waterville is somehow close to nothing and everything. It is a short drive from some seriously beautiful beaches, Portland, and even Boston (I drive up weekly). All of my students freelance in the above locales.
I am happy to do trial lessons as time allows if you want to know more about Colby. I know that nobody thinks of me or Colby when they’re looking to be the next big trumpet soloist, but if you are from the Midwest or a smaller town and interested in getting situated on the coast near a big city with all the opportunities that affords you, we can do that!
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Subtropical and Subpar
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 6:57 am Post subject: |
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Oh, I went to one of the CBB. I mostly remember the cold. That's why I live in the tropics now  Colby is a lovely school, though.
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1932 King Silvertone cornet
1936 King Liberty No. 2 trumpet
1958 Reynolds Contempora 44-M "Renascence" C
1962 Reynolds Argenta LB trumpet
1965 Conn 38A
1995 Bach LR18072
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2011 Schilke P5-4 B/G
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Jerry
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:11 am Post subject: |
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I went to graduate school with someone who did her undergraduate degree at Colby (not music).
She liked the area so much that she bought a place, and after retiring from working in Manhattan, she moved to Maine. So it must be nice.
(I've been to LL Bean but nowhere else in Maine, so I can't speak personally.) |
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kehaulani
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Sounds lovely. I like the small school atmosphere that's why I considered Hardin Simmons. Decided on UNT, though. Not such a bad choice.
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Subtropical and Subpar
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| kehaulani wrote: | | Sounds lovely. I like the small school atmosphere that's why I considered Hardin Simmons. Decided n UNT, though. Not such a bad choice. |
My Reynolds C Trumpet and case are both stamped with N.T.S.C.
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1936 King Liberty No. 2 trumpet
1958 Reynolds Contempora 44-M "Renascence" C
1962 Reynolds Argenta LB trumpet
1965 Conn 38A
1995 Bach LR18072
2003 Kanstul 991
2011 Schilke P5-4 B/G
2021 Manchester Brass flugel |
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kehaulani
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Or as we used to have on our sweat shirts - N.U.T.S.
That case may be a collectors item.
NTNC = North Texas Normal College
NTSC = North Texas State College.
NTSU = North Texas State University
UNT = University of North Texas
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"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
Yamaha 8310Z Bobby Shew trumpet
Benge 3X Trumpet
Benge 3X Cornet
Adams F-1 Flghn
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Croquethed
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| The missus and I just drove from western CT to Bangor the other day and remarked that Colby is quite a haul for a one-day drive from the NY metro. Even Boston is a bit long of a trip. But hey, Portland! And Portsmouth is a great little burg. |
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Subtropical and Subpar
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| kehaulani wrote: | Or as we used to have on our sweat shirts - N.U.T.S.
That case may be a collectors item.
NTNC = North Texas Normal College
NTSB = North Texas State College.
NTSU = North Texas State University
UNT = University of North Texas |
It's a brown, alligator skin, Reynolds-badged case with a royal blue interior. Quite handsome, and just a hint of musty smell, but that's OK because the C trumpet lives in the double case my Schilke P5-4 came with.
The all-time university acronym crown belongs to George Mason University. Some years ago they renamed themselves, at a donor's request, after Scalia. The Antonin Scalia School of Law. Yeah. Oopsie. A few weeks later George Mason re-renamed it the Antonin Scalia Law School. It got much humorous coverage in the legal press.
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1932 King Silvertone cornet
1936 King Liberty No. 2 trumpet
1958 Reynolds Contempora 44-M "Renascence" C
1962 Reynolds Argenta LB trumpet
1965 Conn 38A
1995 Bach LR18072
2003 Kanstul 991
2011 Schilke P5-4 B/G
2021 Manchester Brass flugel |
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Subtropical and Subpar
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| Croquethed wrote: | | The missus and I just drove from western CT to Bangor the other day and remarked that Colby is quite a haul for a one-day drive from the NY metro. Even Boston is a bit long of a trip. But hey, Portland! And Portsmouth is a great little burg. |
You should check out Newburyport, Massachusetts next time. For my money it's the prettiest seafront town/small city in southern New England. Well, tied with Mystic/Stonington, Connecticut, anyhow.
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1936 King Liberty No. 2 trumpet
1958 Reynolds Contempora 44-M "Renascence" C
1962 Reynolds Argenta LB trumpet
1965 Conn 38A
1995 Bach LR18072
2003 Kanstul 991
2011 Schilke P5-4 B/G
2021 Manchester Brass flugel |
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Croquethed
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| Busking in Mystic is my dream retirement gig. |
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andybharms
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Thanks everyone for the NE pride! If we are talking about coastal towns, I have to chime in about Marblehead.
Go Mules!
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Subtropical and Subpar
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| andybharms wrote: | Thanks everyone for the NE pride! If we are talking about coastal towns, I have to chime in about Marblehead.
Go Mules! |
And Salem right around the corner, with its picturesque common, historic neighborhoods, and world-class Peabody Essex Museum, the largest and wealthiest art museum that *no one* has ever heard of. Seriously it's among the top ten in the US for both gallery square footage and endowment.
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1932 King Silvertone cornet
1936 King Liberty No. 2 trumpet
1958 Reynolds Contempora 44-M "Renascence" C
1962 Reynolds Argenta LB trumpet
1965 Conn 38A
1995 Bach LR18072
2003 Kanstul 991
2011 Schilke P5-4 B/G
2021 Manchester Brass flugel |
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Issac Acker
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| Sounds great! Can't wait to find out more about Colby College and what it has to offer. |
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