Since this website used to reside at a different address, until the idiots who run my web hosting somehow didn’t notify me of a domain name renewal, I doubt many of you (well, the one or two who’ve visited so far) are familiar with the Trumpet Chronicles. This was a series of articles I wrote as I wandered my way through the intricacies of trumpet selection and mouthpiece searching.
Continue reading “Volume 11: The Trumpet Chronicles is Now the Saxophone Chronicles”
My wife and I just completed relocating to Lexington, KY. Continue reading “Relocation”
I’ve finally done it. I’ve found the “holy grail” (for me) of trumpets!
Continue reading “Volume 11: The Trumpet Chronicles (The Holy Grail)”
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t’s frankly amazing how quickly time goes by. I logged in to this site today just to see if there were any software updates that needed to be applied. My last posting was in February! Several things have happened, so…. Continue reading “Volume 10 – The Trumpet Chronicles (Has It Really Been 5 Months?)”
Band practice was cancelled last week due to bad weather, and it might be cancelled again tonight. I hope not, since I have a different trumpet to try out now.
Continue reading “Volume 9 – The Trumpet Chronicles”
There hasn’t been too much going on with the trumpet chronicling lately. Continue reading “Volume 8 – The Trumpet Chronicles”
The holidays are typically a slow time for trumpeting, at least for me. But there have been a few things going on that are noteworthy. See what I did there? See? C’mon, it wasn’t THAT bad! Continue reading “Volume 7 – The Trumpet Chronicles (Happy New Year)”
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A lot has happened since the last episode dd ddd dddd dddd Turn it OFF, Kevin nnn nnnn CLICK! Thank you. Continue reading “Volume 6 – The Trumpet Chronicles”
So, last night I was at band practice. We were quickly running through some of the Christmas music for our first concert on the 13th. I was using the Yamaha 11 mouthpiece I mentioned in a previous post with my silver Olds Ambassador trumpet. Strangely, my lip got really tired way early in the practice, long before I expected it to. On a whim, I switched to my generic 3C mouthpiece, and quickly found new life and endurance. My tonal quality came back substantially also. Continue reading “Volume 5 – The Trumpet Chronicles”
I started to just update