Peter McNeill

Hi Chet,
I like to think that an individual can make a difference. Some concepts like "Enough is Enough" can be applied to voilence, wars, road rage etc. Once someone begins the movement it gains momentum....

The future is in our hands, not others, and we all need to work at it.

We need to look after each other, care for mother earth, and respect others. Tomorrow will be better than today.

A naive but sincere old man
Cheers

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Got My OLDS RECORDING....
"This will be my last" - I told my better-half.
I may nick-name her "Killer Queen" to soften the hit I expect....

trumpetnick

Being aware that your can is empty enable people to fill them. If you don't know that the can is empty is much more dangerous...

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Spada Bach C 256, leadpipe 2LQ/DWMM1.5C
1956 Olds Ambassador Cornet
Spada Custom Piccolo

If you don't know where you are going, you 'll end up someplace else

Markie

OK, this is weird.........Man up and go get some help.

tedh1951

Hey that means I'll only have 6 months and 11 days of retirement, no 6 months and 20 days - that's not fair, I been working all my life so that I could stop working and retire.

Chet - if you think everything is negative, you haven't met my boys, positive outlook, expecting to enjoy the future, belly laughing every day, and playing brass. On top of that they respect the past and those who gave their all thinking that there would otherwise be no future. Did those young men and women whinge about no future - nup - rolled up their sleeves and got amongst it and quite literally fought for their future, and for you and me. No future? - BS.

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Ted

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington

rdt1959

Let's see...the car industry. "Its all plastic. Today's cars only differ from each other by their corporate sign on the hood, everything else is more less unificated." But...when I was a kid very few cars made it to 100,000. I remeber Dad saving money for a new car because ours had 40,000 miles on it and "It won't last too much longer."

Lets see music. Again, when I started playing (early 70's), we had two choices of trumpet. Conn or Bach. I got to college, and NOBODY played on ANYTHING but a Bach mouthpiece. We didn't have custome made horns, only professionals played Getzen, and there was no such things as "play along CD's" or performance tracks.

Lets see food. OK...you have a point about food.

Sometimes the difference between "good" and "average" is ourselves.

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ComeBackKid

Wait a minute! The answer is right under your nose (literally!!) I have 32 trumpets/cornets. They are all different - even units of the same make/model are different. Embouchures are different - even the same person on a different day. Try playing your trumpet upside down (there is a video on this forum of a 5-year old doing it quite well). There are 3,000 (at least) different mouthpiece configurations. Take your favorite solo that is written in 6/8 time and pay it in 5/4 time. That is different. See? The can is not empty. You just have to tip it up a bit more to find that individuality will come out. Rumor had it that, back in 1899, US Commissioner of Patents Charles H. Duell declared that everything that could be invented had been invented so the patent office might as well close down. I think that one or two things have been invented since then including MP3 players so we can all listen to our favorite trumpet player - and they are not all the same; just look at Tine Thing Helseth (just be careful to not listen to Kenny G. That will undo all of the good that the other things have done).

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Olds Special (1951, 1956, 1960, 1962)
Olds Ambassador (a few: 1953-1979)
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ComeBackKid

By the way. Go find the thread where this was posted. The person who wrote this post seems to have some pretty good insights into things. Maybe you should get to know him better.

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Andreas Eastman (new)
(+Conn Director, King Cleveland, Holton Collegiate,
Blessing Accord, York, Yamaha, Getzen, Amati, Revelle, Bundy, Alcazar)

chet fan

It's that autumn thing I guess, another year gone by.

And it's the cultural difference again, over there in US its autumn leaves, you see, autumn leaves, like in milions of multicoloured papers flying all over, like some big celebration. While overe here in europe its les feuilles mortes, in direct translation it means dead leaves, not autumn but dead, dead like in milion lifeless corpses lying on the cold and moisty ground looking at you with their hollow eyes like saying; the end is near my friend, wait! look around you, where are you going stranger? do not hurry. And you just walk and walk and you hear those leaves lisp under your feet not knowing what the massage is, you just walk with your own troubles on your mind. And the leaves continue to cry, but nobody ever listenes to them. If you stop for a while and listen to them you could hear them telling the story of the days gone by, a happy days. We should listen to the leaves its telling us that we were happy once but we never realized that, it reminds us, it wakes our memories. Just like in that Joseph Kosma song.
C'est une chanson, qui nous resemble...

Another year gone by, winter ahead. Birds flying to the south leaving us alone in darkness of the late fall. Time to reflect; many days ago when the sun was bright...

Well I will leave you now with this video that I found on youtube the other day. Enjoy, reflect, think. And be gratefull that you witnessed yet another summer. With a bit of luck and the God's will there will be many more of those.


I write this in the memory of a man whom I had an honour to meet in the summer of 2005, four winters ago. Sadly he passed away around this time of the year in the year 2007. And I just realized now how happy I were to get a chance to meet him, one of the true greats of 20st century, it took me four years to realize that...

Bachstul

A Native American Indian would say those dry leaves will refortify the soil and live once again as another leaf tomorrow. Everything takes from earth, then gives back.

MrClean

As a colleague of mine is fond of saying - "any day above ground is a good one." It is what you make of it.