If I knew how to remove duplicate posts here, I would gladly do it! I'd also edit the sharp edge out of my comments. Nothing is gained by unkind comments toward a gifted piccolo trumpet player.
Don - I very much hope you are not offended by my comments. You are a brilliant trumpet player! Until you have the opportunity to actually play a seven foot trumpet you may have difficulty truly interpreting Baroque music in the right manner. I was amazingly fortunate to have heard and spoken at lenght with Edward Tarr while I was in college. In the end he advised young players to master both because a great deal about style and articulation leads one directly from the trumpet itself.
@MichaelTrumpetPlayer You're right, but don't tell anyone. Don's recording is amazing! I've never owned or done serious work with a natural trumpet but would love to some day.
@wtfmate09 The so-called ornaments are stupid flourishes and completely out of style for this music. Play a natural trumpet to learn how authentic style is correctly demonstrated. VALVES ARE FOR SISSIES!
@MichaelTrumpetPlayer Hello wtfmate09 - Months later I have to completely agree with you. You are right. My comments about the player who shared his piccolo trumpet playing were unkind.
As to your remarks, I wish to clarify if I may try.
Excessive ornamentation is not the best idea with this music. The limits of the instrument for which the Abblasen was composed. A natural trumpet can ONLY play the notes in the overtone series.
"Valves are for Sissies" was a joke at an Early Music Festival.
@wtfmate09 The so-called ornaments are stupid flourishes and completely out of style for this music. Play a natural trumpet to learn how authentic style is correctly demonstrated. VALVES ARE FOR SISSIES!
@MichaelTrumpetPlayer What an uneducated and aggressive thing for you to post. Do you feel like a pretty cool dude bashing a compliment that I paid a fellow musician? Great show of character, chap.
@wtfmate09 People who live in glass house ought not to throw stones. I do not consider my comment "uneducated and aggressive" at all. I simply stated facts. The young man plays piccolo trumpet very nicely but it is NOT the correct instrument for that music historically speaking. Your are showing very bad form by assuming I am uneducated on the subject. You don't know me, my scholarship, my performance experiences, my teachers. I repead: The young man plays the piccolo trumpet very well!
@MichaelTrumpetPlayer If you read my previous post carefully, you will see that I make no attack on your scholarship; I am only making the observation that your comment was less than constructive. Which of your teachers subscribed you to the idea that flourishes are "stupid" or that valves are for "sissies"? I would ask that you avoid considering my comment as a personal attack, thereby avoiding the need to "beat your chest". I hope this clarifies my intentions.
@wtfmate09 "What an uneducated and aggressive thing for you to post." That sounds pretty clear to me.
The message I got from my teachers was clear: excessive ornamentation is not good. And directly from Edward Tarr, "...become acquainted with the instrument for which the music was written, because you'll be able to make many discoveries about style and performance practice - discoveries which really lead from the instrument itself."
@wtfmate09 Concerning the phrase "Valves are for sissies" - it is not my own, but I learned it at an Early Music workshop at Amherst College in the 1970's. It is intended as humor, but it also could lead curious people to TRY playing a natural trumpet! ALL of the research I did in college when studying the natural trumpet made one thing extremely clear: There are certain notes and ornaments which are IMPOSSIBLLE to play on a trumpet of the Baroque Era.
The so-called ornaments are stupid flourishes and completely out of style for this music. Play a natural trumpet to learn how authentic style is correctly demonstrated. VALVES ARE FOR SISSIES!
This is brilliant! Your interpretation is superb and your tone doesn't have any of the ragged edge I generally hear on this piece!
Great job!
frenchispanicdude03 2 months ago
Wow a lot of drama below. Nice playing, man.
terryhink 3 months ago
If I knew how to remove duplicate posts here, I would gladly do it! I'd also edit the sharp edge out of my comments. Nothing is gained by unkind comments toward a gifted piccolo trumpet player.
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 4 months ago
Don - I very much hope you are not offended by my comments. You are a brilliant trumpet player! Until you have the opportunity to actually play a seven foot trumpet you may have difficulty truly interpreting Baroque music in the right manner. I was amazingly fortunate to have heard and spoken at lenght with Edward Tarr while I was in college. In the end he advised young players to master both because a great deal about style and articulation leads one directly from the trumpet itself.
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 5 months ago
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MichaelTrumpetPlayer 5 months ago
Nicely played on the wrong instrument. :-)
I like hearing this played by DON SMITHERS. His recording was used for over thirty years at the start of CBS's "Sunday Morning."
I more recent astounding recording of this music played on a proper trumpet is on You Tune by Nathaniel Mayfield.
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 5 months ago
@MichaelTrumpetPlayer You're right, but don't tell anyone. Don's recording is amazing! I've never owned or done serious work with a natural trumpet but would love to some day.
moetrumpet 5 months ago
@868hbl5 Doc did record this, then wynton. Dont underestimate Doc, hes a world class trumpeter.
Smcope8 5 months ago
Are you sure Doc recorded this? I can't imagine him pulling this off too well.
868hbl5 8 months ago
great sound.
KillerTpt 1 year ago
Hahahaha! Love the extra orniments. Bravo.
wtfmate09 1 year ago
@wtfmate09 The so-called ornaments are stupid flourishes and completely out of style for this music. Play a natural trumpet to learn how authentic style is correctly demonstrated. VALVES ARE FOR SISSIES!
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 5 months ago
@MichaelTrumpetPlayer Hello wtfmate09 - Months later I have to completely agree with you. You are right. My comments about the player who shared his piccolo trumpet playing were unkind.
As to your remarks, I wish to clarify if I may try.
Excessive ornamentation is not the best idea with this music. The limits of the instrument for which the Abblasen was composed. A natural trumpet can ONLY play the notes in the overtone series.
"Valves are for Sissies" was a joke at an Early Music Festival.
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 3 months ago
@wtfmate09 The so-called ornaments are stupid flourishes and completely out of style for this music. Play a natural trumpet to learn how authentic style is correctly demonstrated. VALVES ARE FOR SISSIES!
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 5 months ago
@MichaelTrumpetPlayer What an uneducated and aggressive thing for you to post. Do you feel like a pretty cool dude bashing a compliment that I paid a fellow musician? Great show of character, chap.
wtfmate09 4 months ago
@wtfmate09 People who live in glass house ought not to throw stones. I do not consider my comment "uneducated and aggressive" at all. I simply stated facts. The young man plays piccolo trumpet very nicely but it is NOT the correct instrument for that music historically speaking. Your are showing very bad form by assuming I am uneducated on the subject. You don't know me, my scholarship, my performance experiences, my teachers. I repead: The young man plays the piccolo trumpet very well!
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 4 months ago
@MichaelTrumpetPlayer If you read my previous post carefully, you will see that I make no attack on your scholarship; I am only making the observation that your comment was less than constructive. Which of your teachers subscribed you to the idea that flourishes are "stupid" or that valves are for "sissies"? I would ask that you avoid considering my comment as a personal attack, thereby avoiding the need to "beat your chest". I hope this clarifies my intentions.
wtfmate09 4 months ago
@wtfmate09 "What an uneducated and aggressive thing for you to post." That sounds pretty clear to me.
The message I got from my teachers was clear: excessive ornamentation is not good. And directly from Edward Tarr, "...become acquainted with the instrument for which the music was written, because you'll be able to make many discoveries about style and performance practice - discoveries which really lead from the instrument itself."
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 4 months ago
@wtfmate09 Concerning the phrase "Valves are for sissies" - it is not my own, but I learned it at an Early Music workshop at Amherst College in the 1970's. It is intended as humor, but it also could lead curious people to TRY playing a natural trumpet! ALL of the research I did in college when studying the natural trumpet made one thing extremely clear: There are certain notes and ornaments which are IMPOSSIBLLE to play on a trumpet of the Baroque Era.
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 4 months ago
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The so-called ornaments are stupid flourishes and completely out of style for this music. Play a natural trumpet to learn how authentic style is correctly demonstrated. VALVES ARE FOR SISSIES!
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 5 months ago
brava
corolla2024 1 year ago
GOOD JOB!!!
kimberly81276 1 year ago
Very nice....love the tune (it makes my Sunday Morning)...nice job
whyisitused 2 years ago