Re: [Hornlist] Horn solos - grade levels

2005-08-26 Thread Wright, Jim
Florida Bandmasters music lists with grades (for a variety of instruments). http://www.flmusiced.org/fba/musiclists.htm Jim On Thursday, August 25, 2005, at 08:10 AM, Liz Sievert wrote: > >> I'm searching for a list of horn solos that are either >> listed by grade level(1,2,3, etc), or have th

[Hornlist] RE: Learning Suggestions Appreciated

2005-05-16 Thread Wright, Jim
I'm also a retread with a 30 year gap. Been playing again for almost 4 years now. Accuracy felt like my biggest issue for almost 2 years. I did find that playing the page on accuracy from the Farkas book and keeping written score on how many and which notes I did not hit dead center helped a lot

[Hornlist] Ordering Vienna Horns

2005-02-17 Thread Wright, Jim
I tried to place an order on the orf website, and they say that ordering is secure (sicherheit). However the padlock symbol for secure site does not appear, so I did not place an order. I did email them asking where to fax an order. Jim Wright ___ post

[Hornlist] RE: MD (late)

2005-01-18 Thread Wright, Jim
A year ago I decided I too wanted to record live performances of various sorts with high quality. I searched and could not find anything other than mini-disc that has a built-in mic preamp. There are plenty of memory- and HD-based units that have line-ins, but none I found with mic-in. For a yea

[Hornlist] Mirafone L mouthpiece

2004-10-25 Thread Wright, Jim
I posted this on the yahoo list last week without result. Perhaps someone on the Memphis list can help. I'm playing a loaned Mirafone L (yep, that's with an f as written on the mouthpiece) and want to buy one - used or new. Thought maybe someone might have one in their mouthpiece collection that

[Hornlist] Digital Recording - mostly NHR

2004-08-27 Thread Wright, Jim
I'm a big fan of the minidisc recorder for digital recording of horn practice and performance among other things. Excellent sound and either 80 or 160 minutes of very high or nearly very high quality digital sound - at maybe $1.50 per reusable disc in 10-packs. All Sony's models with numbers sta

[Hornlist] Hoyer 7801

2004-02-25 Thread Wright, Jim
Some time ago John Orzel mentioned on the list that he had changed from his Merker to a Hoyer "Myron Bloom" 7801. John, I'm quite interested in how you're finding the 7801 horn now that you've been playing it for a while. Questions come to mind like general intonation eveness, Bb/F side matching

[Hornlist] Re: Standley Routine

2004-02-13 Thread Wright, Jim
Gene - I hope that more retail locations sell The Standley Routine than just the publisher (Southern Music) and Thompson Edition. The process of selecting a publisher is important and apparently especially so for you. If you check other music on many web sites, you'll see that the publisher is s

[Hornlist] RE: How to buy a horn from the Hornplayer.net

2004-01-26 Thread Wright, Jim
I have sold a couple of horns on Hornplayer.net in the past two years. I did have conversations with both people and they seemed "real". I took cashier's checks before shipping the horn, with the added step of calling the bank the check was written on to verify the check would be good. In both c

[Hornlist] RE: Singing

2003-11-18 Thread Wright, Jim
I got my copy of Marvin C. Howe's The Advancing Hornist by mail from Eble's Music in Iowa City, Iowa. Phone 319-338-0313. I had it in 2 or 3 days. Jim Wright ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/

[Hornlist] Re: Oil troubles

2003-09-03 Thread Wright, Jim
I agree with getting a good horn person to go through the valves - esp. for residual grit. There are many opinions on this very personal oil selection question, but after you've gotten the problem resolved, I'd suggest you not use an evaporating oil like Al Cass Fast, but go to Hetman Piston Oil or

[Hornlist] Re Winston Horns

2002-11-07 Thread Wright, Jim
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > Does anyone ever play, or has anyone ever played, a Winston horn? I'm > currently playing an Elkhart M-seri