Amado Water Key For Trumpet

January 25, 2019 John Mkdareq Leave a comment

Amado Water Key or Amado Spit Valve For Trumpet

When a person plays a trumpet, the players warm, moist breath will condense within the inside trumpets metal tubing. This condensation is caused by warm water vapor in the players breath which will gradually become cooler as the moist air vapor travels through the cooler metal tubing of the trumpet. In addition to water condensation, saliva or spit from the players mouth will also accumulate within the metal tubing of the … Read the rest

Female Cornet Soloist Jessie Millar

January 17, 2019 John Mkdareq Leave a comment

Female Cornet Soloist Jessie Millar – 1890’s

See: Soft Lips on cold metal: female brass soloists of the 19th and early 20th centuries by Gavin Holman.

An exceptional ‘FEMALE’ featured virtuoso cornet soloist that performed with the Carl Clair Circus Band in the United States in the 1890’s was named Jessie Millar.

Ms. Millar did not play in the band with the other male band members. Ms. Millar was a featured virtuoso cornet soloist who exclusively performed on a podium … Read the rest

Female Cornet Soloists

Vienna Prostitution Scandal Travels To UMASS

January 3, 2019 John Mkdareq Leave a comment

Vienna Prostitution Scandal Involving Professor Wally Chesnut Travels To UMASS-Amherst

Within two weeks after returning home from the two week, Spring 1971, Edward Tarr European Trumpet History Tour, the highly regarded UMASS-Amherst trumpet instructor, Professor Walter Chesnut (“Wally”) was stunned to find out that the specter of a “BUDDING SEX SCANDEL” that Professor Chesnut thought was put to rest before he departed from Vienna had actually followed Professor Chesnut back to the United States.

The scandal revolved around … Read the rest