On 1 Jul 2008, at 12:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here in Manchester buses are great! (if you like the smell of vomit,
don't
mind sitting on seats that you stick to and find being beaten up a
turn-on)
C'mon Lawrence, you _know_ they're talking about long distance coaches.
Not those
If you fly a lot with your horn (an awful lot), you might just want to
get a flight case. Something along the lines of the Anvil (extremely
heavy and extremely expensive) or a Pelican (not as heavy, not near as
expensive) will do well and the untrained airport monkeys can throw your
horn around
I once asked a similar question of a bunch of trumpet players. The consenses
of opinion in that group is that the direction of the air stream doesn't really
matter. Some fine players are down streamers others are up streamers and
all can play well regardless of the air stream direction. Hope
I have an Osmun MB5-style case that was two fifty or so, and is just as good
as the MB cases. I also had the same problem with it on Delta connection
flight- the overhead bins are too small and the under-the-seat areas allow
for little legroom with the case stowed. But for 'normal' flights the
And to compound that, some players aim towards the top of the
mouthpieces for some notes and the bottoms for others.
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To: horn@music.memphis.edu
Subject: [Hornlist] Air Stream
I
I had an Anvil style case custom made for my cut-bell Conn 8D about 12 years
ago and flew with it 6 or so times to Europe, once to Japan, and a dozen or so
times in the states. I always checked it with the gorillas, and never had a
dent, crease, or broken solder joint. I don't have use
I have a friend who is struggling w/ bass cleff. He's plays high horn so he
rarely gets an opportunity to work on bass cleff. It would be so, so nice to
find a Bass Cleff for Dummies style book w/ a simple explanation of old
notation vs new, easy tunes drills, scales, etc. in one volume for
Rubank Intermediate for Trombone, perhaps?
John Baumgart
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Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:57 PM
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Subject: [Hornlist] Bass Cleff for Dummies???
I have a friend who
Flying back from undergraduate auditions this spring, my horn was spirited
away by an attendant who successively referred to it as a cello, trumpet,
oboe, and piccolo before asking what it was actually called. I found out
later that it had actually gotten to ride in the cockpit with the captain,
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