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Also I think the idea was to steer the students away from mouthpiece buzzing because it's a completely different resistance which can make the student tight. It's a disagreement that's been going on for years

I believe that Wayne is in sync with the Bill Adam approach

One commender on the video said it well. I am copying his words here: "I don’t believe he says that the lips don’t vibrate. I believe he says that we do not need to vibrate them… they vibrate sympathetically to the standing wave, or in other words, the air causes the lips to vibrate and not the other way around. Watch John Harbaugh’s video on trumpet physics (on yt). By forcing the lips to vibrate we are only creating unnecessary isometric tension. The lips will vibrate as they must when we supply the air." So the vibration comes from positioned and not tightened lips that vibrate from the manipulated air pressure, not forcefully spit buzzing.

OK, I'll TRY not to get too technical. Many trumpeters make a serious EFFORT to get the PHYSICS right often miss parts of it or get it completely WRONG. Sadly, much of that is the case here. First, the lips do vibrate when. you play - period, full stop. In musical-acoustic-physics speak, the trumpet is a lip reed instrument. Second, if the first three minutes of the clinic, he contradicted himself with his demo. First he put the trumpet on the mouthpiece while he was playing, got a lame sound, AND THEN PULLED THE TRUMPET OFF OF THE MOUTHPIECE AND KEPT THE BUZZ GOING. He claimed that this showed the lip buzzing is somehow wrong. Then, he did the demo again, and when he pulled the horn off and the sound stopped. He claims that this shows that he's not buzzing those notes. This is WRONG. HE IS buzzing those notes but the resonance of the horn is amplifying them by virtue of the standing waves in the horn. The actual VOLUME of the notes of the vibrating lips is much softer. That is what he was inadvertently showing in his second demo pulling the mouthpiece off of the horn. HIs "bad" demos are, indeed, manipulated, though he may not realize that he's is doing it. Popping the horn with his hand simply demonstrates wind column acoustical resonance. It doesn't show that the notes are magically in the horn. He put acoustical energy with his had by slapping the mouthpiece. This is equivalent to the lips making only one cycle of a vibration. In fact, this actually serves to demonstrate the the lips DO vibrate. Now, there are some that claim to have seen videos that show that lips don't vibrate when they play. This is also mistaken, because of strobing. If the lips are vibrating back and forth 440 times per second, you have to use high speed video with a frame rate many times higher than the frequency you're looking at, not what you get with a cell phone and some fiber optics. Next, when you consider the physics of overtones on a wind column instrument, with large sections of tapered tubing (the bell, certainly and, though to a lesser extent, the lead pipe), you can verify mathematically and physically that the lips HAVE to be vibrating. The trumpet (and all brass instruments) is a closed end resonators with an overtone series tricked out by the tapers. This is sometimes called a variable acoustic length. There are many books that explain this - Benade, Rossing and Backus, come to mind, but I have already run too long, for a comment. There are also some nice articles by Dr. Thomas Moore for the ITG Journal's science desk. He was a professor of physics at Rollins college in Florida and specialized in experimental analysis of trumpets with holography among other things.. Ralph, I don't have a PhD, like you do (MUCH respect, btw), but I DO have a BSEE, specializing in electro-acoustics and communications, a MM in classical trumpet and a MS in physics. Musical acoustics is sort of my bailiwick. This long comment is intended to just scratch the surface here. In Wayne's defense, MANY clinicians often get in front their skis when it comes to musical acoustics. Hit me with an email, if you want more, Ralph.

Rumor is that Vincent Bach had a new lead pipe he had come up with and gave it to Sandy Sandberg to start the whole Doc Eterna trumpet. My teacher Dominic was a Getzen clinician at the time and in 1970 he got me a Doc Eterna for $200.00. Now having gone to college with a Conn Victor cornet....that was life changing. It was a wonderful horn d

Ralph have a great day.

How long does your kettle bell routine take?

Hey! Even though most of the projects i do don't require a lot of power, i have started implementing the technique you talk about where the tongue goes behind the lower lip, and although i use a more "conventional" technique for my technical playing, your technique has really helped me getting power with ease in the upper register and has saved me a lot of time that i would otherwise have to use doing lip maintenance :) So just, Thank you!

Ummmm…WTH???? 😮 I definitely prefer his playing to Nakarakov.

Same here. The link isn’t working.

I learned a lot listening to this cut. Thanks

That was outstanding! His sense of time and structure are so evident in that amazing stop time section!

I couldn’t hear the clip. The link kept taking to an AOL login page.

Italian trumpet players!!!!!

I can eat everything you mention including fruit juice except high glycemic fruit. My stomach goes nuts.

My favorite mode of exercise JUMP ROPE

BEANS ALSO!!!

I hate to comment on this.. but.. once I bought a cd of Wynton.. asked my uncle to listen to it… His only comment was” first 16 bars was nice” I think he felt too many notes and not musical.. not say the wasn’t great but

Racist? Ha!!! Have you not heard what this man has been saying? Wnyton is fantastic, period. Ralph has complimented Wynton many times. If you know anything about Wynton, he has had chops issues and has even had operations on his lips. I was told by people who know him well were commenting to me that he had decided not to play anymore. I could never imagine Wyton not playing the trumpet. But I do hope he takes Care of his health so we fans can enjoy his musical and personality for many more years. Thank you, Ralph, for sharing your opinion, even though I might not always understand and agree. Un imenso abrazo y te queremos Ralp. Con Amor. Carlos

You’ve certainly helped ME!

Along with Al Hirt, Jerry Callet thought that Charlie Shavers was a wonderful player with an ideal trumpet sound.

Although he was classically trained I especially like Al Hirt’s pop hits of the 1960s. However, his tone was a bit too high and thin for my ears, although I realize that many might disagree. YMMV. Personally I prefer the warmer and more emotionally moving (to me, anyway) sound of Herb Alpert’s playing. Of course, Hirt was nonetheless a true master of the instrument.

Great job, Nick. Thank you and Ralph for sharing.

Nick you sound great!!! Beautiful arrangement!!!

Jerry Callet often used Al Hirt as an example of what the trumpet should sound like.

Ralph Al Hurt my all time favorite trumpet player, guy had amazing technique/ tonging and used that wide rim shallow jettone . Ralph did you ever go to the jettone shack when it was in Fairfield CT? I have lots of stories about the shack 🎺

Incredible Trumpet players!! Pete was a great lead player and exciting jazz player.. Conte was one of the all time great jazz player.. he could also play lead sometimes… They both were very close to my family.. My uncle Ray and Pete had the tiniest mouthpiece’s in LA like a bent dime!!and still great sound!!! Conte played a Mt Vernon 10 3/4 c… exact same mouthpiece as Tommy Porrello… Conte used to get a kick out of Porrello playing same mouthpiece because he didn’t know of anyone else who played one… Both were legends in LA and all over… Thanks for sharing this!!

I am assuming that link was to the Tonight Show with Buddy Rich sitting in on Horace Silver’s “Nuttville” arranged by Jon LaBarbera. As legend has it, the band was SIGHT READING that thing! I have played it with Chicago bands many times and that break down chorus in the middle is wicked hard - LOTS of gnarly barbed wire! That band was amazing.

Nice Haydn excerpt!

Hey Ralph Nothing below

Ralph salutations also from CT 🙂🙃

I think he won the Pulitzer for Blood in the Fields… not sure though…

“A lot of alliteration…” 😉

St. Petersburg was once called Leningrad. My grandfather was the youngest composer/professor of the now St. Petersburg Conservatory. OK, name droppin....

So agree!! Delibra, Perico throw backs..!!! Tommy Porrello is like a carry over from those days..late 1960’s when he played in the LA Studios he played with those greats.. he did the tv show “Hollywood Palace” last LIVE Tv show. Trumpets: Manny Klein, Ray Triscari, Harry “sweets” Edison and Portello… “Tom Jones” TV Show: Audino, Ray Triscari, Jimmy Zito and Porrello. “Pat Paulson 1/2 Comedy Hour” tv show was just 2 trumpets… Conte Candoli and Porrello! So Porrello caught the tail end of the guys.. Porrello a LEGEND in Las Vegas and Delibra is incredible… seen him play live dozens of times at the Riviera Hotel with the Don Menza Big Band.. both Tommy’s in the section! and what I’ve heard on video of Perico he’s right up there!!! So many stories.. I’ll email you a few shortly… Margolin’s sound is the same as Gozzo just in a different music idiom.. crazy power…

Cummings Glen

I’m pretty sure it was Margolin you were thinking of.

Kyra Valleys

This guy would make a pimple on Gozzos ass.!!

Ralph you can run a 5 minute mile?

so give me your opinion of the old Giardinelli mouth pieces? Forgotten by most. I knew players who went through mouthpieces like brands of gum..my dad , God bless him, would tell them " go home and put your time into practicing, then go out and make a living" lol And dont even ask me about a certain VERY WELL KNOW trumpet player who would come in to the music store and wanna switch lead pipes every other week when he came off the road with Artie Shaw band ( I think led b yDick Johnson..another local guy) Dad with his Bach 10 1/2 C since 1920's , playing an. Olds Standard (free as ad promotion for playing it in studios I had it in in high school, with fingernail polish to patch up leaks in it...but HEY it was my dad's HORN from behind Jerry Vale and PattyPage shows )King Silver Flair, Bach 37B.....those were the ONLY horns I knew my dad to play over 70 yrs. As he would say, "give me a horn and I'll MAKE it play. I'll play a broom stick" Love your videos

hello Ralph i have has a 1sb trumpet Mp since april 2018 and a cornet 1sbMP since early 2023. i have a 67 conn director 15A cornet in 0.484 bore a getzen pro 3001 trumpet in 0.462 bore a 1996 Olds pro bach strand clone in 0.459 bore and a 1967 Olds Super cornet in o.459 bore. the 1sb behaves differently on a large bore horn than a ML bore horn. the 1sb blows much more freely on the large bore horns. it slots much easier with a richer tone. on a ml bore horns. when i play the 1sb on the ml bore horns they have more back pressure. the increase in range tone and power are very evident but i have to further cut back on my air .. all of my horns play and sound better in all range on the 1sb than any other mouthpiece i have ever used.

Not only do you talk out of your ass you play from there as well

Post the link in the comments.

The link isn’t there yet.

Hi Ralph.. I don’t have the link below.

Well, I bought TWO 1SB's just so I could look like I'm switching mouthpieces on gigs so I can fit in! Just kidding! I have one down here in Glencoe and one up at my summer cabin in Door County. I've two of the matching flugel mouthpieces for the same reason. I do use a 1SS on my C trumpet, but the 1SB works, too. I'm very glad to not be a slave to mouthpiece switching anymore. I got a little big band project in the works. I HOPE to have it up before Halloween. The rhythm section and bass trombone are recording tonight and hopefully the alto's and tenors will get done over the weekend. I went back and forth with Jerry, but I ALWAYS knew he was sincere and was onto something, which is why I kept going back to him. He figured it all out.

I spoke to Ray via email about a month ago.. He couldn’t speak-highly enough about the 1sb and relaxing his corners!!!

Ralph salutations.

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