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Patty from Modesto
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello everyone
I was thinking that facial hair must affect trumpet playing. I saw a broadcast of an orchestra concert on PBS recently that had the first trumpet with a small gotete. He sounded fabulous so I figure it must help him play better. The conductor had a beard but he was an older Santa Claus looking gentelman. I assume he must have at least played the cornet before. What does everyone think? I have a problem with this because I am a woman. But if it works I am willing to get the hormone shots it takes! I saw a picture of HL Clarke and he had kind of a handle bar mustache. Do you think the old time cornet mouthpieces made him have ingrown hairs around his embouchure and therefore caused those nasty ingrown pimples?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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On 2002-07-21 19:24, Patty from Modesto wrote:
Hello everyone
I was thinking that facial hair must affect trumpet playing. I saw a broadcast of an orchestra concert on PBS recently that had the first trumpet with a small gotete. He sounded fabulous so I figure it must help him play better. The conductor had a beard but he was an older Santa Claus looking gentelman.
Patty from Modesto


LOL...that was the NY Phil. Bob Sullivan has the goatee......he sounds equally great without facial hair!!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome Patty from Modesto,

I've played with briefly and without mostly. I prefer without but I really didn't give the other a fair chance. I didn't change because of my playing. I changed because the way mine came in I looked really stupid.

Stay a woman and forget the hormone shots

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[ This Message was edited by: walter on 2002-09-20 09:19 ]
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey Patty,
War Rogaine!!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, facial hair doesn't effect our top trombonist...
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a goatee and a moustache and can't play very well. Unfortunately I can't play very well without them either.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have never heard someone saying that he/she wants to grow a mustache or beard to become a better trumpeter. Try practicing!
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't play orchestral or anything, but playing unshaven has given me an irritation under my bottom lip. I felt it happening during my three hour session, but ignored it and now I have what looks like a cold sore, and have taken a week out for it to heal. I despise shaving, but I'll never do that again - play unshaven that is.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

trumpetgeek234 wrote:
I have never heard someone saying that he/she wants to grow a mustache or beard to become a better trumpeter. Try practicing!


Actually, many years--make that decades--ago, I vividly remember Johnny Carson asking Doc Severinsen once on the Tonight Show if the mustache helped. He looked sincere when simply replying that yes, it did. So there. (I do think he also practiced)
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Valve oil brand is a better indicator of potential than facial hair.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not fond of my beard when I had one. For me, the hair interfered with the seal of the mouthpiece and the lips. Notice doc severinsen has a circle shaved off his mustache around where the mouthpiece would be, as with any player with a beard I've seen. Never tried that.
Not my thing.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Patty, think Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Ray Anthony, Chet Baker, etc, etc,...no beards in sight, and all of them great players. Then think Alison Balson, Tine Thing Helseth, etc, etc., all great female players and no beards. Stay womanly, my dear. Please.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 5:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw a James Morrison video where he rotated the trumpet so that it was upside down. So he was pushing the valves up instead of down. He sounded great! I'm thinking maybe my playing will improve if I rotate the horn upside down like he does. What do you think?

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Of all the threads to dredge up after 15 years.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Facial hair literally doesn't matter. Chris Coletti of Canadian Brass plays great both with and without facial hair. Ronald Romm is famous for his facial hair, but he plays under the moustache, therefore not using the facial hair.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Years ago I think it was some kind of "thing" that a moustache helped with trumpet. While there have been a number of great players with them I've never heard any real substantiation as to why it would. I think Doc made a divot in his 'stache for his mp, I believe Harry James' mp sat right on his 'stache. I personally don't get how someone can function with hair between their mp and their lip.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GeorgeB wrote:
Patty, think Louis Armstrong, Harry James,

Harry had a 'stache.
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