interesting quotes

[Bill Troiano]

When I was in college, I was in the music library doing some listening and thumbing through an issue of The Instrumentalist - around 1971. I came across a full page ad of Al Hirt holding his Getzen trumpet and looking at it. The caption read, this horn really blows. I never saw the ad again in subsequent issues.

[WC8KCY]

When I was in college, I was in the music library doing some listening and thumbing through an issue of The Instrumentalist - around 1971. I came across a full page ad of Al Hirt holding his Getzen trumpet and looking at it. The caption read, this horn really blows. I never saw the ad again in subsequent issues.

This really made me chuckle! Al Hirt did a lot of work at crosstown rival Holton.

Back in the day, it was like Ford versus Chevy: If you were a Holton man, you couldn't say anything nice about a Getzen. The reverse was also true.

[WC8KCY]

His "real" trumpet (at least, the one he played the ~one~ time I worked with him in a jazz band) was a gold-plated Leblanc.
(He was in Memphis, listening to local muckety-mucks attempt to sell him on him opening up a club on Beale Street.)
I have encountered/bought sold one Hirt-Holton, and one Hirt-Leblanc, so far...

A bit off-topic, but...Hirt is said to have had a hand in the design of the 2nd-gen Holton Super Collegiate trumpet in the 1950s. These have nickel bell flares, copper bell tails, and nickel lead pipes. I have one, with a precision valve alignment, and it's a fine player indeed.

[GC]

Was he also associated with Selmer Paris Radial trumpets?

[THE TUBA]

"Tubists don't have delusions of grandeur. Tubists have delusions of adequacy"

[windshieldbug]

"Tubists don't have delusions of grandeur. Tubists have delusions of adequacy"

[WC8KCY]

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

[Ace]

Better to be sharp than out of tune.
Anonymous.

Ace

[paulver]

Don't need to tune....... it was tuned at the factory!!

When in doubt........... trill!

[Chris Mayer]

Richard Strauss

Conductors rule Nr. 4

„Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.“

and from hornmatters.com

„Barry Tuckwell, the great horn virtuoso, has a humorous saying which he uses to ridicule this odd belief: “Always remember—it is better to be sharp than to play out-of-tune!” I will paraphrase this saying by stating: “Always remember—nothing, but nothing, takes the place of good intonation!”...“

[windshieldbug]

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but produced Michelangelo, da Vinci and the Renaissance; The Swiss had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

[Rick F]

I've never been able to find who this quote is attributed to...

"Always play with a good sound, never louder than lovely, never softer than supported."

[euphomate]

Advice from my first boss, on arriving at my first day of permanent employment, at my first ever job, age 15 years:

"Never trust a man that doesn't drink".

It wasn't a music job, but the same advice could easily have been given at one.

[mikebmiller]

I had someone tell me a few years ago “there is nothing you can’t play. There are only thing you can’t play YET,”

[Bowerybum]

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but produced Michelangelo, da Vinci and the Renaissance; The Swiss had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

Harry Lime................"The Third Man"

[Billy M.]

"What a giftless bastard." - Tchaikovsky talking about Brahms.

[WC8KCY]

Listening to the fifth symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
--Copland

[Bowerybum]

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

[Norm in Bellevue]

Several decades ago when I was an undergrad bass trombone major at Washington State U. I happened to mention Handel's Messiah to a crusty old prof. His reply, "Norman, I wouldn't walk across the street for a performance of Handel's Messiah if George Frederick Handel himself was conducting and Jesus Christ was singing the tenor solos."

[roweenie]

Several decades ago when I was an undergrad bass trombone major at Washington State U. I happened to mention Handel's Messiah to a crusty old prof. His reply, "Norman, I wouldn't walk across the street for a performance of Handel's Messiah if George Frederick Handel himself was conducting and Jesus Christ was singing the tenor solos."

Wow, that's extreme