Maynard played the valves with his left hand and worked the slide with his right.

Hi Satish, your new firebird sounds amazing! Such beautiful melodies with awesome meends! 👏

4th World

saw Maynard (big band tremendous) - would rather see Radio Free Tibet.

Jon Hassel must have loved this ❤

I play in a Big Band, and we call wah-wah mute basically a Harmon mute with the stem. It's very rare indeed. I've also seen "Tin mute" on sheets. My band leader made me play a harmon mute with a stem to get a metallic sound that goes out, I don't really know what I was really supposed to use.

I never use a Harmon but I don't gig still a beginner.

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This is so great! I just got a copper mute and I love the stem. It's so old timey. But also it could be an intriguing substitute for a wah pedal. So funny that it's called a "wow-wow" mute, I always thought it was a wah-wah lol

I like the sound of that Stem 😂 Also the Clearton is pretty dope!

Great work!

Seriously beautiful composition and performance, Satish.

You guys were cooking on this tune! Nicely done!

Thanks just play it next time ,scales,, what ever.

Indofunk Satish To make a Soprano Superbone I would take a Soprano Trombone & cut off enough tubing to put a Valve Block on from a Piccolo Trumpet w/ 4 Valves

Congrats! So proud to have you use the space. Moody and deep. Well done.

Me too :)

Dancing in my chair!!!!!

Hey ......... check out the drummer @ 2:10!!!! Nice recovery :)

this guys hair just got thanos snapped

the sounds is so good I appreciated

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Love it Satish!!!!!

They now make Soprano Superbones (7 Position Firebird)

Nice!

Txs

Indofunk Satish I'm getting a Super bone which is something you used to have, but I'm getting one of them someday.

This is proper rad

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Whoo!!

Sounds great!! I'll have to show my daughter who is a budding brass musician herself! Great seeing you, Satish!

The only person I ever saw play a MF Firebird was Maynard Ferguson. It was 1979 and it was in Royal Oak Michigan. The song was Carnival. Those were the days. MF was great.

Sehr geil :) Very cool, best wishes from Germany :)

Hindi me anuvad

Loving the history lesson. Never got a chance to ask you about this stuff when we were working together.

The trumpet wasn't good enough so they took part of the amazing trombone to make it better :P

its not hard as long as you keep the shorter bell, but I know a place that makes them fresh nowadays

Rarely fing them on eBay, However Schlub brass makes their own that work very well. There are a couple of videos of them on youtube

Check ebay. One sold recently for $5600, significantly cheaper than a few years ago...

I want to buy one of these. Where can I find one?

super man , great brother .

Hey, that's an excellent question and one that I never addressed! I should take the slide apart in the next episode, whenever I make that. But the mechanism is a slide-within-a-slide. The part of the slide just past the two finger rings is adjustable, and you lock it down with a screw. It's kind of tough to put into words, I'll have to record a video for you soon...

how does the tuning work?

Just a simple drop D. I drone on the lowest 4 strings (D-A-D) and play on the top 3.

What tuning did you use on this?

Unfortunately, can't tell you. The Firebird, obviously, came with the slide so I couldn't A/B it with & without the slide. In fact, the only other Holton I've played is a ST307 which, although I found it to play much better than the Firebird to me, is still comparing 2 very different horns to each other. btw, if you want to take this discussion offline, feel free to contact me through my website: konakkol.com/content/about

How does the added slide affect the trumpets response? I'm used to my standard trumpet, and also I wonder how my trumpets freeblowingness is gonna change after my standard horn is customized to have a slide.

This sounds like a Midi trumpet.

Hey, that's great! Yes, definitely hit me up when you get it and I can give you some lessons over Skype.

my Getzen is being converted to have a slide that will be ready in feb-march next year but i have a trumpet at home that im using, i really want to learn to play north indian raga on trumpet will you teach lessons over skype etc.?