[Menvi-discuss] [braille-music-chat] Crossposted question abouttrumpet fingering

Wed Feb 1 14:44:39 EST 2012

I did not get the jokes that Bill posted.
Here is the music joke archive on my website:
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/papermusic/humour.html

Please let me know what needs to be added.
-Andy English
www.papermusic.org <http://www.papermusic.org>
Music consultation and transcription services.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org]On Behalf Of Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:57 AM
To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] [braille-music-chat] Crossposted question
abouttrumpet fingering

They just like tooting their horns! :P
And they're just like tenors, always making loud noise with all the extra
hot air they're full of! Perhaps trumpet players are attracted to each
other, because I don't remember the last time I met a trumpet player... I
just hear them having diva wars with the tenors while they're supposed to be
performing.

I've never herd any jokes about bass singers... Perhaps we're just too
dangerous to get riled up? Because we joke back where as tenors just make
loud noises out of their noses. (And trumpet players can't seem to stop
tooting their horn long enough to say anything intelligible from their
constantly puckered lips.)
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 10:21 AM
To: 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy'
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] [braille-music-chat] Crossposted question about
trumpet fingering

> 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-----
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[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-----
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> [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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