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

Wed Feb 1 14:51:09 EST 2012

I sing tenor and trumpet is soprano, so there might be a definite
connection...have a fe3w trumpeter friends, one is sort of famous,
http://www.heavenlytrumpet.com is his site only visits churches. The
other was just asked to play the baritone for a brass quartet, and I
just asked him to record "Up Jumped Spring" for me and well need I say
more about lip bloat, been there done that got the t-shirt! The other
trumpeter some of you might know of is Jim Gammon.

On 2/1/12, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonboy13 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
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> -----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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