Great!

RIP

GREAT TO HEAR YOUR DISCUSSION WITH WALT!! 👍

Ha K.O. i what to talk to you

I absolutely can rip for 4.5 hr gigs with my LynnFlex DaVinci and feel completely fine chops-wise the next day. My symphonic mpc is also beautiful sounding and allows me to play with a great sound all day.

Damn! He has he huge sound at the end of the video even though he is talking about using less air. Sounds like he is using lots of abdominal compressions here.

For me this is THE mouthpiece! I am able to get to C4 now, could not do that before

Yeah, good stuff. The Da Vinci series is the real deal! It's just easier!

Great info guys, and well prepared!

Great explanation!!! Really makes you think.. Hope you’re doing well!! Joe Triscari

Javier and K.O.: Thank you both very much for offering this excellent this presentation, not only to those attending the ITG conference but also to those of us who couldn't make it there. It's evident that both of you took considerable time to plan and prepare for it, both together and individually. That demonstrates a high "care factor" and a dedication to giving something valuable to the audience without forgetting to mention things. Great stuff, and great playing Javier!

I always thought you were taller...

In a couple of other comments, sections for videos about Johnny, I heard people speculating about how he may have caught and died from HIV. After a couple of AI searches, I found the following, which hopefully will put all the incorrect speculation to bed: "In the late 1970s, Madrid was involved in a serious automobile accident that resulted in him requiring multiple blood transfusions. Unfortunately, this occurred before rigorous blood screening for HIV was implemented, leading to his subsequent diagnosis with the virus."

How would I go about determining the gap for my mouthpiece and and trumpet?

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So true! Happens to more trumpet players especially younger trumpet players studying with certain teachers. You always hear you can’t get a big all around sound on a tiny mouthpiece. My uncle Ray Triscari played on a tiny mouthful like a drilled out dime and was first call in the studios for years. Great story to share!! Joe Triscari

Great tribute to your good friend. Great seeing you, KO. Paul (Dayton) H.

Loved this. In the early seventies I studied with Roy Stevens for 2 years. It was the best thing I ever did. When I got it I was able to play for over 50 years with no problems. Once I learned what is happening inside the mouth I could correct any playing problem.

RIP

Excellent which trumpet is it?

Cornet in high G is pretty sick, you guys ever thought of making a G Soprano Bugle? It’s like a trumpet in low G but with a big bore, big bell, and HUGE bell throat

My teacher in middle school. So many years ago.

Will the presentation be record and for us to watch? Is Javier coming out with a book on the lead pipe playing?

A great trumpet player and gentlemen.

Hy! Sir, I have to say a lot’s of thanks for this demo. I definitely need up-sound . For me the lead pipe practice isn’t easy. A special difficulty is getting hayer notes. Seems up sound makes it more easy and the fingers moving warms them up too…

I hope this is going to be filmed.

Always interesting stuff, K.O.!! My college teacher always said the best trumpeters he ever played with are always the guys that show up to the session 5 minutes late, start telling jokes and annoying everyone, then they borrow your valve oil because they don't have any and don't warm up at all and then the first downbeat hits and they just proceed to blow the roof off the place for the next couple of hours. He said they if you ask them what they are playing, it's usually just a Bach 37 that they bought used and they are just playing the mouthpiece that was in the case when they bought it. There's a lot to what your are saying K.O. At a certain point you just have to use your ears, practice efficiently and then just play. On the other hand, I think there is a certain "something" to certain ideas about horns and mouthpieces that have merit, to a point, but it's they aren't every really going to replace talent, musicality and a pile of practice. Thanks, K.O. !!

Have fun guys! Javier, stop making the rest of us look so bad!! 😅

Can't wait to see your presentation and try your gear!

Any chance the seminar will be recorded for those of us who can't go?

¡Súper sonido!

I could watch this 100 times and I would still learn something new! Thank you, K.O. and Walt!!

Not enough chops. 😂

A new star + nice educator!

There were 5 names in the Tom Stevens video: Louis Davidson George Mager Nathan Prager James Stamp William Vacchiano

In the late 80's after a radical dental procedure, I couldn't play any more. I went to a colleague who was a student of a particular Swedish educator/performer and well known as an "embouchure" doctor. I ws with this gentleman, for a total of 18 months. We did Stamp from the book. I never could free buzz, that it transfers 1:1 to the mouthpiece - it always dropped around a fourth or fifth. Despite this not working properly, we went on to mouthpiece buzzing - could never buzz more than an octave and a half. And when putting the mouthpiece into the horn, it too did not transfer pitch wise, dropping a good fifth or so and sound absolutely awful. During these last 6 months, my anger never got about a fifth line f, sounded horrid, and as time went on, my throat started tighten ing up, to the point I had to quit playing trumpet. 10 years later, I decided to try playing again, but not trumpet. So I took up trombone in 1991, took lessons with a colleague and we did no buzzing whatsoever. None. We first found my tonal home-base and went step-by-step upwards and downwards, doing a similar exercise to Vince Chicowiz's Air-Flow studies. I only went one step high when I got the same good sound as the previous best note. 1996 I was far enough along, that I passed my performance recital for a teaching certificate on tenor trombone and euphonium. Right after getting my certificate, I switched to bass trombone, started a trombone quartett that stayed together for almost 20 years, Got a job in a local symphony orchestra. I have never buzzed a note whilst a trombone player. I did concentrate on tone quality, everyday concentrically expanding my range from my home base going at the same time upstairs and downstairs. Although I'm retired from public playing, I still have a range from pedal d just above double pedal b-flat going up to c the third space treble clef. So my experience with the Stamp method was, that it didn't work for me to the point I couldn't play the trumpet any more. IOW - there is more than one way to skin a cat.

Good stuff, K.O., ! Thanks!

Yeah, figured it had to be Al Vizzutti. Cool story!

Every young trumpet player should watch this interview a few times.

Stomvi❤

Mouthpieces are like shoes. You don't go for a hike in the mountains on spikes, you use them for the 100m sprint. You don't play soccer wearing basketball shoes. If you play music, just like in sports, you shoe-up accordingly

My experience with these DaVinci mouthpieces is that my playing is now so much easier! Lightning response with expanded dynamic range with ease, , even slotting all the way up and down, superb intonation and huge beautiful sound. HUGE!! Crystal clear articulation. It's all just easier! For a comeback player like me my DaVinci mouthpiece is a game changer!! Thanks, K.O.!

Who's got them at tmea this year?

Qual a numeração do bocal que pancho usa?

Fabulosa Linda es magnifica canta y toca como una Diosa.

Is it a big deference sound wise s3 silver vs brushed lacquer version?

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Bill sounds like a very practical-minded genius. It is rare for most folks to recognize analogies across disciplines and he was also able to apply that knowledge to develop a superior instrument. This video piqued my interest because I’m a geologist and have used a similar technique to measure shear wave velocity, shear modulus and porosity of earth materials through FFT analysis of background noise (seismicity), referred to as ReMi (refraction micro tremor analysis) and percolation theory (the way seismic waves propagate through a material). Thanks K. O. for sharing Bill’s knowledge!

Very interesting presentation! We visited your shop Tuesday afternoon and picked up a great S3BB. Now I understand Ronnie’s comment that he was surprised trumpet playing could be so much easier than with his Yamaha. Very cool!

Love it. Good shake