Re: [Harp-L] Design project, Harmonica Mic - please help

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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joe and Cass Leone" <deleted>
As far as trumpets, THEY are one of the
> easiest. There are only a finite combinations of valve positions. The
> rest is done by embouchure. Once you can get the 4 (major)
> embouchures, you're home. Changing embouchures QUICKLY is where it's
> at, and that's what takes the practice.
>
> smokey joe (not the BBQ grill) and the Cafe s (not the musical)




Trumpet... easiest?

Not for me.  Les Brown's 1st Trumpet back in the days when they played for
Jackie Gleason in Miami was Bobby Wetzel.  He tried to teach me but I just
couldn't get it.  Only three buttons for all those notes?  Didn't register
with my brain wiring.

And getting the tone was nearly impossible.  One time Eddie Harris was over
and he took the sax mouthpiece and put it on the trumpet and handed it to
me.  I played it, and it sounded half OK.  But it was easier for my brain to
deal with "One button, one note"  Hold them all down except the one you want
to sound... the longer the tube the lower the note, Use the thumb for
octaves... that I could understand.

"A man's gotta know his limitations." --  Dirty Harry

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