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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.

Bill Troiano wrote: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.

bloke wrote: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.

Was he also associated with Selmer Paris Radial trumpets?

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

THE TUBA wrote:"Tubists don't have delusions of grandeur. Tubists have delusions of adequacy"

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

Better to be sharp than out of tune.
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Don't need to tune....... it was tuned at the factory!!

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

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!”...“

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.

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."

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.

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,”

bloke wrote:

windshieldbug wrote: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"

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

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

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

― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

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."

Norm in Bellevue wrote: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