mark3

Hello all!

My name is Mark, and I am returning to play after an absence of 38 years. The return came about after hearing the local high school marching band practicing at night (about 3 miles away) and getting a gift of some Chicago Symphony recordings with Fritz Reiner conducting and "Bud" Herseth doing the impossible.

I'm currently playing on a recently purchased King Silversonic Super 20 (circa 1969) with a Bach 7C mouthpiece. I am playing this time a means of self expression and purely for pleasure. The endurance is poor now, but I'm hoping for some gradual improvement. By the way, if anyone finds my old embouchure, please send it back to me

Glad to become a part of this community. Hope to be a "brass monkey" once more.

ComeBackKid

Hello Mark3 - Welcome to TM - and more specifically the comeback players club. Yes, your 38-year layoff does put you up there in the spectrum but nowhere near the record, which is 51 years from what I have seen here.

All of us had some "trigger" event which suddenly rekindled the flame of interest - even passion - that had long lay dormant but not dead. In my case, it was my 10-year old grandson who decided to take band in middle school and his mother (my daughter) suddenly remembered that she had heard me play when she was a little girl and told him to ask me about it. I dragged my trumpet out of hiding, blew off the cobwebs, tried a few (very shaky) notes and suddenly said, "Say, I used to play this thing." Now I have been on the comeback trail for 4 months and my grandson is playing one of my 30+ recent acquisitions in the middle school band class. So, if you are like the rest of us, the King Silversonic is only the first of many to come. We all seem to have an affinity for shiny (or some not-so-shiny) brass objects and some already have interventions underway. But, don't worry - it's pure fun along the way.

Yes, I did find your lost embouchure but in the process of trying to make it work, I broke it. So, like everyone else, you are on your own to make a new one. Hopefully it works better than mine does. But, one of these days, I hope to be let out of the closet to practice. Maybe you are already out - I hope so.

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comeback_honker

Welcome!

I'm one month into a 25 year comeback, and finding that endurance is building rapidly. My first week, I was limited to just 10 minutes of practice at a time, and now I can practice for about 45 before my lips give out.

It's very nice to see so many comeback players here. I figured it was pretty rare for grown adults to pick it back up again.

Sofus

Very welcome to TM, Mark!



That´s probably when I found it . . .

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" There are no secrets to trumpetplaying - except Practice Your Head Off - and that´s no secret! "

Bud Herseth 1977 in Hamar, Norway


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