wombat

Thanks for the input.I was serio-
sly considering putting away my ho-
rns after I was operated on for triple
bypass and mitral valve replacement
but my cardiologist told me it would
be good therapy.I more or less said
this in jest and when I was getting
respitory therapy,the nurse was te-
lling me how to breathe and I told
her of my being a trumpeter and that
what they were saying sounded alot
the way Louis Maggio told his stude-
nts to breathe.I met this studio tru-
mpeter named Carlton MacBeth who
published the Maggio System of Bra-
ss back in '68 and he drove from L.
A. to do a brass clinic at the college
I attended back in early '71.It work-
ed for me.I mentioned I also played
trombone and I told me to quit.His
remark was one I could argue that it
was a matter of dispute.I used to
have a flexible lip when I was in my
teens then and I also played saxop-
hone and clarinet but played tuba in
the concert,marching,and tuba in the high school band(North Bend,OR)
and trumpet in the newly organised
stage band.This was in 1970.I was
the jazz soloist and co-lead trumpet
In closing,another trumpeter I dug was Erskine Hawkins.I wore out an
already worn out Victor 78 of "Tippin
In backed with "Remember".It dated
from 1945.That was where I got the
idea of getting a Rudy Muck 17.I br-
oke that record and it was nearly 40
years ago before I found another c-
opy of it.The trumpet solo by Hawki-
ns wasn't as good as I remembered
it.