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Rance New Member
Joined: 21 Aug 2019 Posts: 6 Location: James Creek, PA
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 4:57 am Post subject: Taps across America |
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Not one mention of this? Too „beneath” you all? |
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HillBilly Joe Regular Member
Joined: 02 Apr 2010 Posts: 58 Location: Saratoga, NY
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 5:16 am Post subject: |
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Welcome to the community. Super inspiring first post.
I would gather that noone felt like bragging about their rendition of taps. It's in honor of the fallen heroes, not about slapping yourself on the back. _________________ Joe V
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markp Heavyweight Member
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 2814 Location: Coarsegold, CA
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 5:17 am Post subject: |
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I played Taps twice yesterday at different ceremonies, smart guy. Dozens of my friends and acquaintances from all over the country participated and posted on Facebook.
Taps shaming? Really?
A friendly reminder beforehand may have been more welcome than a chastising after the fact. |
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SSmith1226 Veteran Member
Joined: 29 May 2016 Posts: 104 Location: Orlando, FL
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 6:46 am Post subject: Re: Taps across America |
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Rance wrote: | Not one mention of this? Too „beneath” you all? |
For what it is worth, there was another discussion announcing this event with the same title on this site at: https://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=154059
There was a second discussion of this topic as well under a different name that I can not recall at this time. _________________ Steve Smith |
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Posts: 9013 Location: Hawai`i - Texas
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 7:44 am Post subject: |
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Redefines snarky. _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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Croquethed Heavyweight Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2013 Posts: 613 Location: Oakville, CT
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 7:50 am Post subject: |
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Just because one plays the trumpet doesn't mean one should feel obligated to -play Taps on Memorial Day.
If somebody asks you to play for a ceremony, by all means honor the request. As for me, the day was full of chores and it got away from me and I didn't get the horn out of the case at all. I did, however, think of my wife's great-uncle, who was killed in the Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918, and True Smith, an 18-year-old from Michigan who died of disease in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 1865, and through them all those who gave their lives.
How one commemorates the day is nobody's business. |
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jhatpro Heavyweight Member
Joined: 17 Mar 2002 Posts: 10204 Location: The Land Beyond O'Hare
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 9:13 am Post subject: |
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I played at 3 from our front porch. Thought about my grandmother’s brother, lost in 1945 on the USS Somerville. About my own brother, shot down over the Gulf of Tonkin in 1975. About one of my son’s West Point classmates, blown up in his helicopter in Iraq in 2005. And about the 100,000 lost to Covid-19.
And, no, it wasn’t beneath me to play. _________________ Jim Hatfield
"The notes are there - find them.” Mingus
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rpoutan Veteran Member
Joined: 29 Jan 2009 Posts: 141 Location: Wausau WI
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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I thought the Taps Across America was a great idea. I participated as well as several of my friends who play the trumpet. This gives a lot of people an opportunity to hear Taps played live. I hope this becomes an annual tradition for honoring those who have died for our country.
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John Mohan Heavyweight Member
Joined: 13 Nov 2001 Posts: 9830 Location: Chicago, Illinois
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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kehaulani wrote: | Redefines snarky. |
Yes! I'll bet he drives a hybrid, too, because he "couldn't just sit back and be a part of destroying the Earth anymore."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmG64mVQV3g
My Taps experience was kind of funny because it was just the night before that one of my neighbors texted me and told me about the Taps at 3 PM idea. As some of you know I retired from full time playing to become a critical care nurse and I am currently working in an ICU. I work nights and I actually worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights this past weekend (7 PM to 7:30 AM each night) so I wasn't looking forward to getting up at what for me would feel like 3 AM. But then the neighbor sent a group text to 13 different neighbors that I would be playing taps, so I knew no matter what, I would have to get up and play it. So I set my alarm for 2:50 PM and went out on the front porch literally in my pajama bottoms and a T-shirt and started playing at exactly 3 PM.
No one was in sight when I started but I figured they were probably on their own porches listening. I shut my eyes as I always do when I play something like Taps by heart and proceeded to play. Then, when I finished and opened my eyes, there were at least 20 of my neighbors right out in front and several of them were filming me - in my pajamas with what I can only describe as "pillow hair"!
Cheers,
John Mohan _________________ Trumpet Player, Clinician & Teacher
1st Trpt for Cats, Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, Evita, Hunchback of Notre Dame,
Grease, The Producers, Addams Family, In the Heights, etc.
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WxJeff Heavyweight Member
Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 2485 Location: Atlanta GA
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Good on ya, John. Great story and thanks for getting up! I worked graveyard shift (only 8 hours tho) for many years and being lucid midday was always a challenge. |
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cgaiii Heavyweight Member
Joined: 26 Jun 2017 Posts: 1545 Location: Virginia USA
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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Seems there are two threads on this subject.
I played at the little cemetery on my property where four WWII Vets and one WWI vet are buried. I too thought of others lost, my father's brother in WWII, friends and fathers of friends in Vietnam, all those suffering the horrors of more modern warfare.
Some of my neighbors showed up and from that location sound travels down the valley.
National Moment of Remembrance, great idea. _________________ Bb: Schilke X3L AS SP, Yamaha YTR-6335S
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pinstriper Veteran Member
Joined: 25 Sep 2013 Posts: 340 Location: Portlandia, OR
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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OP brings up an important topic.
That topic is "why doesn't TH have an 'ignore' feature ?" _________________ ~'77 DEG Dynasty II Soprano Bugle in G
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bike&ed Heavyweight Member
Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Posts: 1837
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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I participated, played it on the front porch like probably many others. I had just played Taps for for my grandfather, a WWII vet, a few days earlier, so it was emotional and cathartic. |
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StartingUpAgainAt53 Regular Member
Joined: 30 Jan 2018 Posts: 44 Location: Half Moon Bay, CA
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Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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I played taps on my 2nd floor porch at 3 pm. Didn't post to Facebook or anywhere else until now. Played it on the trumpet my father played in Navy Bands during WWII. Will probably do it every memorial day until I cannot play anymore... |
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zaferis Heavyweight Member
Joined: 03 Nov 2011 Posts: 2326 Location: Beavercreek, OH
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 3:40 am Post subject: |
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No "participation awards" for sounding taps!
It's not about you. or me _________________ Freelance Performer/Educator
Adjunct Professor
Bach Trumpet Endorsing Artist
Retired Air Force Bandsman |
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cgaiii Heavyweight Member
Joined: 26 Jun 2017 Posts: 1545 Location: Virginia USA
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 6:05 am Post subject: |
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zaferis wrote: | No "participation awards" for sounding taps!
It's not about you. or me |
Camaraderie of a common purpose and feeling. I do not believe anyone here is looking for awards. To me it is very nice to know all these people were willing to do it and we all respect those that have fallen so that we can be free to do this. _________________ Bb: Schilke X3L AS SP, Yamaha YTR-6335S
C: Schilke CXL, Kanstul 1510-2
Picc: Kanstul 920
Bb Bugle: Kanstul
Bb Pocket: Manchester Brass
Flugel: Taylor Standard
Bass Trumpet: BAC Custom
Natural Tr: Custom Haas replica by Nikolai Mänttäri Morales |
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Craig Swartz Heavyweight Member
Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 7770 Location: Des Moines, IA area
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 6:19 am Post subject: |
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I played from the end of my dock on the lake at 3. Just before, at 2:55, I played the national anthem with a good sized flag flying there. Peope around seemed appreciative. |
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