Dust off that old MUSICAL INSTRUMENT you used to play and start again!

We were really trying to be ready if the FFQC went........I noted Kellys' Xmas thing too, that sounds like fun.......but the two car factor is adding up!

I ran across 328 fitted luggage and couldn't reach to do the deal....aaarrrrrrgh!

I've been up I've been down, being up is better. The problem is my two year project LOST $500,000.00 and I cannot convince the 'big guy' to make a bonus on that! LOL!

Two years of my life I'm not getting back!

I tried the luggage on a Purchase Order as "special boxes".....

I tried the two ANSAs on a Purchase Order as "Italian tubing/conduit"

I cannot get away with NOTHIN' any more! I think I've lost my touch!
I used to get that kind of thing done, when the money was flyin' around the room.........

 

I think that was a really nice thing, Karen...

My friend Amy Farris works with a school in Austin, TX that really has a hard time with the instruments. Putting something like that in their hands, that they otherwise would never see, can be a life changing experience.......

I sold my old '64 Ludwig Double Bass drum set for a pittance, it's still out there 'somewhere'........

 

I too was a teenage garage -band sensation! Although we played cover songs exclusively, we played them DAMN well. Today the groups and their music is so .....BLAH. There are NO, I repeat NO outstanding guitar players and the lyrics = pure crap.Bring back the harmonies of the BBC era (Beatles, Beach Boys, Crosby Stills and Nash). Long Live Rock'n Roll!

 

You said it, man! Fortunately, music goes in cycles which means we should soon see a return to guitar-based rock. My nephew is 16, has started playing guitar and is really into Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, etc., so I'm hoping he'll save the world

 

plenty of good guitar bands and great players out there. Labels just don't push the music the same way they push out the teen pop and hip hop. John Mayer is an incredible player but would have never got out there playing the blues style he playing now if it wasn't for his pop stuff. You would be suprised how advanced one major rock star was at guitar if he was ever given the chance to play a solo. Nick Perri from Silvertide is also a very good upcoming rock guitar player from the old school method.

 

Its a shame that nobody out there can play a right note lets not say a run of scales and broken chords like a demon out of hell. I remember the days when I used to shine because of my technique and style. Today no one has pride and real real talent. What a ****ing shame

 

I've been watching this kid for over 5 years now. The fam is dysfunctional: father is alcoholic disabled, mom pays the bills. This kid does band camp every year in summer & plays trumpet at various events in addition to the HS band. You can’t believe how great it is to see a kid coming from this background focusing on music w/ my trumpet in hand.

 

i'm not bored enough to read the rest of the thread, but i have an Alesis Quadrasynth and a Korg 05/RW that i bought back when i thought i was gonna be a musical genius in the 90's. they're under my bed or in a cupboard somewhere now...

i still think i can play toccatta and fugue in D minor or in the halll of the mountain king on request though

 

Proper technique dictates that you don't puff your cheeks when playing because it gives you less control of the wind. Most don't puff their cheeks at all so there is no affect, but Dizzy Gellespie was a famous exception to this -- his cheeks use to pop way way out when he played and I'm sure there were affects from that. Dizzy was an unparalleled player for bebop, but wasn't much on ballads (I think probably because of the cheek puffing, or maybe he just didn't like playing ballads). Lips, however, can be affected -- there are several high-note players that have pronounced imprints of the mouthpeice on their lips.

 

I still have a 1961 Conn Connstellation that is in mint condition -- this is the model (not the actual horn) that Maynard Furgeson and Chet Baker used to play in the 60's. Tom Harrell still plays one today. That horn is too phsyically large for me to feel comfortable with these days, so it sits in a closet and I now play a 1955 Holten Stratodyne that is decidedly non-mint but nonetheless is the best-playing horn I've found.

 

I couldn't agree more. A trick that works for me to keep playing is to just leave the horn out on an instrument stand so that I can just pick it up when the whim hits me. I don't play very often, but I wouldn't play at all if kept it in the case.

 

Here are some pics of my drums and my Royal Blue Metallic Zion Radicaster, one of the best electric guitars ever built, IMO.
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Here is what I played last night!

Toughest thing Ive ever done!
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Good for you Jordan. Where was that and what piece were you playing?

 

I won a competition at my school which allowed me to perform a solo with the orchestra this year. I played the Dragonetti Concerto for the Bass. Dragonetti was a friend of Beethoven so the piece is similar in style to that of Beethoven.

A few local Fchatters came to the concert...hopefully they enjoyed it!

 

I still play the trumpet reguarly My instrument is a Yamaha YTR 4320EG with a Vincent Bach 3c mouth piece.. i was in my school concert band and stage band, but seeing as i've finished school, all im in now is the geelong concert band. I've played for 9 years now... i stopped having lessons last year to concentrate on year 12 studies, and the trumpet has been pushed to the side..

When i was in the stage band, each year we would go to Mt Gambier to compete in Generations in jazz, whereby stage bands and jazz bands across the country came to compete. It is hosted by James morrison a well known jazz musician in australia, and not this year but last year daryl sommers from hey hey its saturday also came. The even is great and alot of fun

So currently i just play in geelong concert band on friday nights, which i enjoy most of the time, besides our crazy conductor!

 

If you have the opportunity, I would encourage you to try a Schilke mouthpiece. I played a Bach 3C for many years. When I was growing up, I thought that Schilke mouthpieces were great for high notes, but I thought the Bach was a better all-around mouthpiece. Just recently I discovered that large size Schilkes are great all around mouthpieces. I first tried a Schilke 19 (which has a larger cup than a Bach 1C (which itself is larger than a 3C)) and now I have a special order Schilke 22 (which is much, much larger than a Bach 1C) and I just find it vastly superior to the Bach in every way -- I get about the same range (which is suprising because the cup size is much larger), but much better sound, control, and comfort. Your mileage may vary of course since it depends to some degree on your physical structure -- and you probably don't need to go as large on the Schilke as I have -- but they are worth checking out if you have the opportunity.

This site has a Bach/Schilke comparison chart:
http://www.dallasmusic.org/schilke/Bach-Schilke%20mpc%20chart.html

This site contains some Schilke reviews:
http://www.wwbw.com/Schilke-Silver-Trumpet-Mouthpiece-Series-i52740.music