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

Wed Feb 1 13:41:19 EST 2012

Guys!!

On Feb 1, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Susan Binks wrote:

> I played trumpet all the way through school.  There were 3 of us gals and the rest  were fellas.  Suffice it to say we never sat first, and it had nothing to do with our playing ability.  I got second one time playing Basin Street Blues.  They did not speak to me the rest of the school year.  
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> On Feb 1, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Bettie Downing wrote:
> 
>> Well, be careful how much psycho-analysis you try to put on trumpet players because when I was in high school I dated a trumpet player for a long time and his buddies were also in the trumpet section.  In private some of them were the most insecure people I had ever met, yet they had chosen an instrument that was way OUT there, so they were fearful people who were brave enough to put themselves in frightening situations.  They were tight-wire walkers.  I relate them to actors.  Insecure, frightened, yet so brave and willing to put themselves at risk.  And that's just the ones I knew.
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 1, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Bill wrote:
>> 
>>>> Hard to believe trumpet players are so conceited.  Are they just joking?
>>> 
>>> Yes, that was a joke but, like most jokes, it is funny because we can relate
>>> to it on some level.  There is a certain personality that gravitates toward
>>> playing that trumpet. Of course, seriously speaking, some of the nicest
>>> people I have ever known are trumpet players.  But, to varying degrees, we
>>> share a common personality trait of, let's say, having a certain presence.
>>> Hard to explain because I'm not sure I understand it all myself.  I'll bet
>>> somebody has done some research on the influence of personality on which
>>> instruments people choose to play. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Bill McCann 
>>> Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
>>> www.DancingDots.com
>>> Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org
>>> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Bettie Downing
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:23 PM
>>> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
>>> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] [braille-music-chat] Cross posted question
>>> about trumpet fingering
>>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org
>>>> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Bettie Downing
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:01 AM
>>>> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
>>>> 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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