lombardo! I see you posting here but even I'm not sure if I should type here.
Isn't this the Musical Instruments Forum for tech talk, repairs and builds?
But that's not why I clicked onto your thread. I love trumpets.
It's too bad I have lips that made the conductor say no to french horn,
and gave me a cornet. I bought my own trumpet, used, a nice one.
I'd start to get a headache after twenty minutes or so, trying to hit high notes.
I'm sure you know it's easier to play down the scale than up.
When I was starting out with my own acoustic as a teen,
I wanted to get better on guitar and get some jazz tunes down.
When I worked as an usher at the show they used music as breaks,
rotating for a while, so I had an idea of what I could sing to.
"Theme from The Sandpiper, The Shadow of Your Smile",
an adult movie with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton,
"Play Misty for Me" by Errol Garner, an organist, an intermission filler,
and "Stranger on The Shore" by Acker Bilk, another intermission filler.
The first half of the Acker Bilk filler was Al Hirt with his hit at the time.
Anyway, I wrote to the American Federation of Musicians Union in New York.
I explained that I wanted to learn these songs as the writers wrote them,
to learn the music as a lesson to myself, and to get them in the same keys.
The ones I was used to singing along to in the show.
They sent me back an address with some prices, surprisingly low, and I got them.
Even after I stopped having to look at the sheet music to get into them,
I'd still look at it, thinking this is what real music looks like,
not the simple notation like most of the songbooks I was seeing.
The cover graphics were cinematic too.
I bought some Nicolo Paganini scores to look at them the same way,
and ended up using photocopies of sections for graphics years later.
Long after I forgot the songs, what, over twenty years later since I tried,
I was showing someone the chords to Play Misty for Me and told that story.
She said do you still have them and her offer was more than nice.
Music not only happens or is where you find it,
but it can be an investment that grows within you and your finances.
What you're asking about is serious music, often funereal.
I'd treat it that way.
