SatchmoII

Ok we are playing a concert at out school (winter concert i believe) and We are playing a song called Lullabt of Bigfoot. Its a funk chart where during the solo section the whole band cuts out 4 2 bars (4:4 time) and its just the soloist. Well, I'm playing my solo infront of the band and I see this guy walking in front of the stage on the ground level (Our stage in our theatre is raised about 6 feet off the ground) I remember this guy said some rude things to me before the show when I was just trying to be polite. Well, he walks infront of the stage right, and then he trips and falls and everyone sees it. Then my brain clicked. It must have been meant 2 be lol cause the timing was just so perfect. He fell just as I got to the part where the silence comes. Well, he falls, the silence comes, I point at him while still playing and do a laugh. (all you jazz musicians know what this is. When you imitate a lauging sound on ur instrument. People who dont think tom and Jerry when the mouse would laugh but it would be an instrument. Imagine it like that) Well, the theatre erupts in laughter because they think it is staged. I didn't see the guy afterwards but it was pretty funny (Hey, i like to mix my music /w comedey w/o sacrificing the quality of either lol Im such a jerk)

burgerbob

Another experience at Allstate...
During a break, my little low brass group from the orchestra went to the vendor's area. I went to a stand with a lot of trumpets, and walla! a Benge picc! a Bach 229 C, an Allen Vizzuti Xeno, etc. I wanted to play the picc, so i asked the guy if I could. I picked it up, looked it over, etc. and proceeded to play it. it was a good picc, albiet smaller/tighter than the Schilke I'm used to, and I proceeded to tell this to the man there. I then played the 229 C, playing a few scales and whatnot. The man at teh booth then asked me, "So you are in the orchestra? What are you, second trumpet?" I replied the only way I knew how, "No, actually, I don't even really play trumpet, I'm the third trombone in the orchestra." His reply to this was "Wha..." and nothing more. I played a couple other horns, then moved on to another stand. He didn't say a word. I wasn't even playing that well! I just doodled around on the picc, making some stuff up, and played a couple chromatic scales on the C. And i was telling the truth! that was a very funny little incident. I think he was amazed by the fact that I knew what the horns were on his stand before he could name them off.

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burgerbob

Another experience at Allstate...
During a break, my little low brass group from the orchestra went to the vendor's area. I went to a stand with a lot of trumpets, and walla! a Benge picc! a Bach 229 C, an Allen Vizzuti Xeno, etc. I wanted to play the picc, so i asked the guy if I could. I picked it up, looked it over, etc. and proceeded to play it. it was a good picc, albiet smaller/tighter than the Schilke I'm used to, and I proceeded to tell this to the man there. I then played the 229 C, playing a few scales and whatnot. The man at teh booth then asked me, "So you are in the orchestra? What are you, second trumpet?" I replied the only way I knew how, "No, actually, I don't even really play trumpet, I'm the third trombone in the orchestra." His reply to this was "Wha..." and nothing more. I played a couple other horns, then moved on to another stand. He didn't say a word. I wasn't even playing that well! I just doodled around on the picc, making some stuff up, and played a couple chromatic scales on the C. And i was telling the truth! that was a very funny little incident. I think he was amazed by the fact that I knew what the horns were on his stand before he could name them off.

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trumpet_man

I also was in the exibits room, not sure if it was before or after you guys, but right in the middle of it we got an announcement that said "your sound is bleeding into the choir room, so please quit playing", that sucked. Here all the venders had put all this time and effort into displaying their horns, and now nobody can even try them out. Man, if I was a vendor would I ever be pissed. I would get a huge refund out of them. I asked some of the guys in choir about it and they said it wasn't even that bad.

Anyway, I tried out a piccolo (before we were told not to play, I'm not sure if it was the same one you tried out, could've been though, since I only saw one piccolo in that whole place, or it could've been that someone bought the one you tried out before I got there), and I tried it out and it sounded like playing a trumpet with the valves down half-way (any trumpet player would know that that isn't acceptable, and you too since you seem to know enough about trumpets). So I played on and it still played like that. The guy at the booth said "it's a piccolo, maybe you're just not playing high enough", but I knew something was wrong with the horn or the valves weren't put in correctly. So I asked him about it and he put them in the other way, of course then, I blowed and got the effect of the valves being put in backwards (you can blow all you want and nothing gets past the valves, any trumpet player know how that is). Same thing happened when I tried out their E flat trumpet. I wasn't too impressed with that model, I think it was an Allora or something (the piccolo, not sure about the E flat). Was that the same one you tried after he must've fixed it, or a different one? Did you come there before or after me? I'm thinking after. We looked at the exibits some time in the morning. Do you know? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What if you would've filled one of THEIR trumpets up with water. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eeviac

I wonder if someone put the valves in all mixed up, for a joke? Booth-droids are very easily distracted, so there's no lack of opportunity....

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Indian

I travel and stay in hotels a lot. I travel with a 1947 King Liberty and use a Silent Brass System which when turned on sounds like playing wiithout the mute. I have never had anyone complain ... until ... one night about 11:00. I was playning some swing music, In The Mood, Tuxedo Junction, etc when the phone rang. It was the front desk ... it seems that the mute had fallen out and I was wailing full blast keeping my neighbors awake. I was very embarassed and now I always check the mute every few minutes.

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trumpet_man

That's by now means anyting short of hilariousm LMAO. That is soooooooooo funny. Especially the way you lead up to it and your descriptions.

This is definitely one of the funniest experiences of all time. Anyway, one time in pep band we were playing for a basketball game at our gym. During half time the trombone play and the marching euphonium player (the two loudest players of the band) went into the bathroom (a public bathroom) WITH THEIR INSTRUMENTS. The trombone player brought his flip folder. The two of them went into one stall and starting playing pep band songs (even our school song). OMG!!!!!!! That was sooooo funny. I had gone into the bathroom "just to wash my hands", and just "happened" to be in there watching them in the corner of my eye, but hearing them in full with my ears. I tried to keep from laughing, but failed miserably, some of the other guys from pep band had the same problem. Some of the looks of the people in the bathroom just made it even more hilarious, (not pep band members, audience members). I couldn't image what they would be thinking about this. Just as I had left the bathroom, the security gaurd had entered.

Pedal C

Definitely not the place for a full breath.

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trumpet_man

lol

Eeviac

OK that is seriously funny!! I can just imagine going in a public bathroom where I grew up, all cement, no doors on the stalls (!) and blasting away! That would be funny!

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Conn Pan Am made in 1950 silver + Bach 7C
King American Standard cornet made in 1940 + Olds 3C
Striving for a Touchy Tone, rather than obnoquious