swhornchic

Southwind's contra's stacked their horns in an interesting way when we were on grass this summer. The two end horns were on their bells, and all the middle ones were on their sides, alternating which way their bells faced. It was always fun to see them pull the horns out of the stack, they'd all pop them out at the exact same time without a sound. (I hope this made sense!)

I read an article the other day talking about hearing loss, and I don't know how much of it can be helped. The article said that 2 hours on the phone would have an effect on your hearing as would 15 minutes of practicing trumpet at a mf/f level. I think the effect was minimal, but the articles point was that it all adds up. I wish I could remember where I saw that.

It takes me a day or two after a camp to get used to playing my french horn after a camp on my mello. That's because of the difference in mouthpiece size, not just because of the different keys!