[Menvi-discuss] [braille-music-chat] Cross posted question about trumpet fingering

[Bettie Downing]

Hard to believe trumpet players are so conceited.  Are they just joking?


On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Bill wrote:

> Glad you liked the jokes but apologies for veering seriously off-topic.
> I'll try to reform.  I don't get to play trumpet much these days but I do
> remember some things about it like you are supposed to blow into the small
> end, right?
> 
> Uh, so much for reforming.  OK, I will stop now.  But, attempting to come
> back closer to the stated purpose of our list here, it would be interesting
> to conduct a study to find out if the percentage of blind people who take up
> the trumpet is significantly higher than that of sighted musicians.  It is
> my most unscientific and, as yet, un-provable theory the percentage actually
> is higher.  Or maybe it's just that we trumpet players tend to make more
> noise than everyone else?  Oops, there I go again.
> 
> But you have to admit that it's hard to forget somebody who you are just
> meeting for the first time who says something like:
> 
> Hi, I'm a trumpet player too and I'm better than you!  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bill McCann 
> Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
> www.DancingDots.com
> Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
> 
> 
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] [braille-music-chat] Cross posted question
> about trumpet fingering
> 
> 
> Bill, I loved your 2 jokes and passed them on to our orchestra director at
> church and the lead trumpeter.  I have never heard either one before.
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