Today I'm depressed because my eyesight and sense of balance is decreasing at increasing speeds. My has aphasia long been a problem. Im asking for no pitty, but I cant see the problem treated in this thread. I had to give up regular brass playing 3 years ago.
I was gifted with an extremely efficient embouchure and a breathing technique based on the Continental European singing tradition. I never was a virtuoso, but I have been able to sing the pants off the ladies on just about any brass instruments from Eb cornet through BBb sousaphone/tuba because I could play melodies melodically. I refused the offers! For years I played my trumpets, cornets, Syhre corno da caccia, Martin mellophone, and my many horns (I think they are 10 or more, mostly single Fs, but a 28D, a compensating Lidl, an Alexander G descant, and a Bb 5 valve Hoyer being among them), on a screw rim Giardinelly 18 mm rim and a J4 underpart, where I had opened the throath and the backbore. Only the Eb cornet was played on a C12 underpart, which I also had modified to fit the same rim. Of course I used all sorts of commercial/home made/home modified adapters. My standing on the marching mello question is: play it with your horn mouthpiece through a relevantly modified adapter. If questions are asked, I may elaborate on methods to do that. Im sorry to have entered personal aspects in my posting, but I strive to continuie being informative from my middlevel/journeyman level as long as it goes. Klaus --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 9/30/2005 2:31:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I can't say I really have an opinion > either way about the bending part, but a band director selecting a > particular mouthpiece for all students seems like a bad idea. I trust she's > still playing her MC on her "concert" horn, and the switching can't be a > good idea. > I like the discussion that occurs from time to time on this topic. It is > timely, at least. I am exquisitely ambivalent about marching band. On the > one > hand, it is an activity which closer resembles athletics than music. It can > destroy chops and horns. It is sometimes pushed by a fanatical bunch of > stage > parents who want their kids to win! win! win! when competition is involved. > It > can just be an unhealthy environment. > > BUT on the other hand, it is a wholesome activity for the most part. It gets > a lot of kids and parents involved in a musical activity who otherwise would > not be. It is often a requirement attached to a concert band, and not just > an > end in itself. The kids get outside, they get good exercise. And it can be > loads of fun, really, as well as creative and entertaining. It gets > administrators to support an arts program who wouldn't otherwise without the > uniforms > and football games and competitions. > > So, please do give me your thoughts, rants, suggestions, and musings on this > topic. Feel free to respond on list or off. I've seen the entire marching > band thing from every angle, and I still don't know whether I love it, hate > it, > like it, or don't care. > > Dave Weiner > Brass Arts Unlimitied > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/k-bone%40mail.dk > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
