With the Fall Season just around the corner (remember the Christmas season begins on Labor Day in Branson), our sister site trumpetensemblemusic.com will be offering all of their arrangements posted from September 1 through September 30 for only $5.00 each. This will the best time to stock up on your…
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Put A Spring In Your Playing
With all the advances in trumpet materials and design, you would think someone would do something to improve our valve springs. There is one thing that you can do yourself to possibly improve the performance of your instrument. And the answer is inside your valve casings. Valves are made to…
How A Soda Straw Can Improve Your Playing
In our last post we talked about the use of a modified, plastic, water bottle to improve your air intake and today we will be using another simple and readily available gadget to improve the air flow out of your body and through your instrument. Many have pondered exactly how…
How A Water Bottle Can Improve Your Breathing
Taking in a sufficient amount of air before playing trumpet is a very simple yet confusing action. Some say that “you take air in as if you are coming up for the last time when drowning”. I never did understand that one. Some say “lift your shoulders and fill your…
Here Is A Very Good Review Of Another Very Bad Trumpet
“The All Hands On Deck Show” Reopened in Branson This Past Week
If you happen to be in the Branson area in the next few months, be sure to visit us at “The All Hands On Deck Show” at the Dutton Theater on the strip. Stop by and hear the only “Live Big Band” in Branson with real horns!
An Interesting Dilemma Revisited
Problem Solved. After going through the arsenal of trumpet mouthpieces I have collected through several decades, I finally stumbled upon one which has been shelved for more years than I can remember; my old Purviance 5*K4. Today I played the first half of the show on my usual Bobby Shew…
An Interesting Dilemma
I pride myself as a very competent second chair trumpet player. Making this confession does not come easily for declaring that you are comfortable being a “second chair player” is against all trumpet player’s egos. But, as I told Mr. Bobby Shew one day, “we are the players that make…
Junk At Any Price Is Still Junk!
THIS IS WHY OUR COUNTRY IS LOSING THE WORLD BATTLE IN COMMERCE!