tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post8852636322725924273..comments2024-03-23T13:46:21.790-05:00Comments on Street Musician Daniel: Good Eye, Harold!!Daniel McKenna IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04157964564856145960noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post-21041231443483537562015-12-31T20:37:43.186-06:002015-12-31T20:37:43.186-06:00Hahaha! OK long story I'll try to make short a...Hahaha! OK long story I'll try to make short and will fail in doing so: I was playing trumpet and gradually making what I do at my "day" job. OK, fine. Then, I decided I wanted to "woodshed" and withdrew from public playing, and spent hours at a time playing and buzzing my mouthpiece. I did this for a couple-few months, and then I got sick. Some kind of cold, but compounded with inhaling smoke from some rather bad brushfires that were not all that far away - the air quality was shit. I'd returned the rental trumpet I'd been playing by this time and acquired a couple of used cornets (shorter version of the trumpet). <br /><br />I put all the trumpet/cornet stuff I had on Craig's List and got no calls, nothing. Then a guy called yesterday, interested in one of the mouthpieces I had, but kinda interested in everything. OK, I get the stuff all out and the conclusion is, the guy buys two cornets, a bunch'a books, some mouthpieces, for $300. OK good gone. Well, in the process of showing the guy (and his son) that the cornet is a great instrument (a lie, by the way) I blew some difficult bugle calls, and on one mouthpiece designed to blow very high notes, I blew some of those high notes. <br /><br />OK so the guy's gone, I've got 3 hundys stashed away, and I'm left with a (very very very good) trumpet reinforced gig bag and a standard trumpet mouthpiece. Everything I've read or been told tells me that since I've been sick, and not practiced, I should be shit on the horn. But I'd done those bugle calls ... I took the mouthpiece I still had and blew "I Follow The Waterfront" by Louis Armstrong, and it's all fine. Hm! <br /><br />So the upshot is, I'm returning the rental sax I've not been playing and getting a trumpet again, and getting back out there. And the trumpet is great for blasting at random religious ranters, obnoxious Tarot card readers and whatnot. alex carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458022111793552536noreply@blogger.com