Subject: TROMBONE-L Digest - 16 Jan 2004 to 17 Jan 2004 (#2004-18) Date: Sunday, January 18, 2004 12:00 AM From: Automatic digest processor Reply-To: "Trombones and related issues forum." To: Recipients of TROMBONE-L digests There are 9 messages totalling 301 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Temporary Address for the Online Trombone Journal 2. Competition for Brass Performers 3. Muller piece for trombone and organ 4. Practice Mutes (3) 5. Slide Stops / slide length 6. Marcellus Mouthpiece 7. The Great, and Incomporable Milt Bernhart ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:48:53 -0600 From: Chris Waage Subject: Temporary Address for the Online Trombone Journal http://216.229.97.31/ The true address of www.trombone.org will work for some, but not all. This all depends upon how often your ISP updates its DNS registry. The new DNS entry should be in place with all ISPs by Saturday, 1/17. Chris Waage -- Chris Waage, Associate Webmaster The Online Trombone Journal "A Website for Trombonists" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 06:30:14 -0500 From: Retired Prof 55 Subject: Competition for Brass Performers --Apple-Mail-20--604949825 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Co-op Press announces a competition for brass performers for their=20 artistic interpretation of the music of composer, Sy Brandon as=20 exemplified in a digital recording of one of the selected competition=20 pieces. A panel of judges will award prizes of $500, $300, and $200 to=20= the first, second and third place winners respectively. The works for=20 this competition that involve trombone are =93Sonata=94 for trombone or=20= euphonium and piano, =93Fantasia=94 for bass trombone and piano,=20 =93Tapestries=94 for trombone quintet, =93Toccata Marziale=94 for six = trombones=20 and percussion, =93Appalachian Folk Suite=94 for brass trio, =93Canzon=94 = for=20 brass quintet, =93Movements=94 for brass quintet, and =93Fanfares=94 for = brass=20 choir and timpani. The deadline for receipt of entries is November 1,=20 2004. For more information visit http://cooppress.hostrack.net/ or=20 write Co-op Press P.O. Box 204 Wrightsville, PA 17368 USA --Apple-Mail-20--604949825 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=WINDOWS-1252 TimesCo-op Press announces a competition for brass performers for their artistic interpretation of the music of composer, Sy Brandon as exemplified in a digital recording of one of the selected competition pieces. A panel of judges will award prizes of $500, $300, and $200 to the first, second and third place winners respectively. The works for this competition that involve trombone are =93Sonata=94 for trombone or euphonium and piano, =93Fantasia=94 for = bass trombone and piano, =93Tapestries=94 for trombone quintet, =93Toccata Marziale=94 for six trombones and percussion, =93Appalachian Folk Suite=94= for brass trio, =93Canzon=94 for brass quintet, =93Movements=94 for = brass quintet, and =93Fanfares=94 for brass choir and timpani. The deadline = for receipt of entries is November 1, 2004. For more information visit http://cooppress.hostrack.net/ or write Co-op Press P.O. Box 204 Wrightsville, PA 17368 USA = --Apple-Mail-20--604949825-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:08:26 -0500 From: Craig Bryant Subject: Muller piece for trombone and organ Had a question about a piece of music I came across. Its a piece for trombone and organ by B. Ed. Muller called "Gebet". Other than the fact that I have the music - I can find no publication date [none on the tune] and no info about Muller other than that you can find several times it has been recorded. Anyone know anything about the tune, when written, info on Muller? Thanks Craig Bryant ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:23:26 -0500 From: John Burton Subject: Practice Mutes With my wife working nights lately, I find myself wishing for a practice mute. I read Chris Waage's review on the Wallace practice mute (http://trombone.org/pdf/wallacemute-rev.pdf). Unfortunately, "Wallacebrass.u-net.com" no longer exists, so I can't find more about the Wallace mute. So, two questions 1) Where does one buy Wallace practice mutes? 2) Is Wallace still a good practice mute for the dollars? Thanks for your input!! --==jb==-- ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= john burton Bach 50B3 Bass Trombone, Charleston NeoPhonic Orchestra South Charleston, West Virginia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:14:02 -0000 From: David Musgrove Subject: Re: Practice Mutes 1. In the US, go to Irvin Karan's site www.slidebone.com. The Wallace brass website is www.wallacebrass.co.uk if you want more information on the mutes themselves. 2. Don't own one so I couldn't say, but I've never really heard anyone knock them. David -----Original Message----- From: Trombones and related issues forum. [mailto:TROMBONE-L@PO.MISSOURI.EDU] On Behalf Of John Burton Sent: 17 January 2004 20:23 To: TROMBONE-L@PO.MISSOURI.EDU Subject: [TBN-L] Practice Mutes With my wife working nights lately, I find myself wishing for a practice mute. I read Chris Waage's review on the Wallace practice mute (http://trombone.org/pdf/wallacemute-rev.pdf). Unfortunately, "Wallacebrass.u-net.com" no longer exists, so I can't find more about the Wallace mute. So, two questions 1) Where does one buy Wallace practice mutes? 2) Is Wallace still a good practice mute for the dollars? Thanks for your input!! --==jb==-- ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= john burton Bach 50B3 Bass Trombone, Charleston NeoPhonic Orchestra South Charleston, West Virginia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:25:20 -0500 From: Steve Beck Subject: Re: Slide Stops / slide length ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Keilitz" > > If the width is constant, then how does that explain > that some horns have narrower legs than others?? The width is a constant for a particular horn. The slide movement changes - the crook does not. By this I mean that first position is a function of all that slide tube - slide crook and all. Second position is first position plus 2 times the slide movement. Third position is second position plus two times the difference in slide position. Etc. Note the slide crook plays no additional part in this effort. The width of your slide has nothing to do with successive slide positions. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:23:49 -0700 From: Mark Bauer Subject: Marcellus Mouthpiece I recently came across a Marcellus large bore mouthpiece that I used with Conn 88H. It only says Marcellus on it and no mouthpice size. Does anyone know what size this would be equivalent to? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:28:08 -0700 From: Phil Burton Subject: The Great, and Incomporable Milt Bernhart Dear Trombone_L mailing list subscribers. I recently received this sad information from another mailing list. Milt used to have and maintain his own website, but I could no longer find the link. The website below just barely touches the surface of his wit. http://www.jazzprofessional.com/humour/bernhart.htm Milt is one of the few remaining great jazz trombonists of all time. Like many of the "greats" of that era, his original sound was rich, his creativity was inspriational, and his wit, incomprable. He played with Stan Kenton in the late 40's thru early 50's, was one of the featured trombonists on "Kenton in Hi-Fi", and can be heard on Frank Sinatra's "I've Got You Under my Skin" (along with George Roberts) and on much of the late Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn series and albums. Until his retirement, he was a regular first call, in the Hollywood Studio scene. I hope and pray he will regain his strength and recover. Phil --------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:03:12 -0500 From: From: "David Bernhart" Subject: The Great Milt Bernhart Hi, everybody. I'm Milt's son and just wanted to ask that you think of my dad in your prayers. He came down with congestive heart failure two years ago and has given it a tremendous fight, but his health has declined noticeably in the last couple of weeks and we're placing our faith in his ability to make another comeback. On the positive side, he still talks of not just attending the Big Band Academy's annual luncheon/concert on March 7, but emceeing as scheduled. May it be so! Best wishes to you all, David Bernhart Burbank ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 04:32:50 +0000 From: Daniel Pliskin Subject: Re: Practice Mutes I own a Wallace practice mute and never use it. It suffers from the same problem that my other practice mutes suffer from. Itās too heavy. I make a great little practice mute, out of a small Calistoga sparkling water bottle, thatās light, basically free, and maintains good intonation. I hot-glue on a little piece of pipe insulation, where the cap had threaded on. And I drill a hole in the bottom and hot-glue in about 6 inches of a straw, from one of those Asian tapioca pearl drinks (the straw is inside of the bottle). The weight of an empty soda bottle and a straw doesnāt bother me too much and itās somewhat crushable, so I can get it into my case. DanP _________________________________________________________________ Rethink your business approach for the new year with the helpful tips here. http://special.msn.com/bcentral/prep04.armx ------------------------------ End of TROMBONE-L Digest - 16 Jan 2004 to 17 Jan 2004 (#2004-18) ****************************************************************