<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Hi Bob,</div><div class=""><br class="">
</div><div class="">I loved this too, thanks for sharing. Especially how great the trumpets sounded just sat in the corner of that bar :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The concert footage reminded me of the first Blu-ray I ever authored, which included this performance of ”Pictures At An Exhibition” - Simon Rattle was an idol of mine growing up, along with Brian Eno: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/15991" class="">https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/15991</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I didn’t have anything to do with the audio or video, only making sure the BD reproduced them faithfull. It’s a great performance, although possibly too polished and 'comfortable' ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It also reminded me of this fascinating (and hilarious) short film about Christian Lindberg’s daily routine:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5FvULGshhw" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5FvULGshhw</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Which makes me similarly thankful I didn’t try to be a professional trombone player !</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope you’re all doing well and coping OK with lockdown,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18 May 2020, at 11:02, Grimm | Eelco <<a href="mailto:eelco@grimmaudio.com" class="">eelco@grimmaudio.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Hi Bob,</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Thank you for sharing this indeed wonderful video. What a great trumpet player and joyful person he is. The passage about the cleaning woman outside of the hall who almost dies when he makes a mistake is hilarious. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">All the best,</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Eelco</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">During the Covid-19 pandemic the <b class="">Berlin Philharmoniker </b>is allowing free use of some of their amazing website.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a wonderful 8 minute video about their Principle trumpet player, Gábor Tarkövi.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><a href="https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/film/360#" class="">https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/film/360#</a></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is some of the most beautiful trumpet playing you have ever heard on this film. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both the Vienna Phil and the Berlin Philharmoniker play with the Austrian<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Schagerl</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>rotary-valve trumpets that are a little darker than piston valve trumpets. It has valves and levers I've never seen on a normal trumpet. Towards the end of the video Gábor mentions that, even for him, mistakes do happen and like a field-goal kicker who misses there is always another day. It made me more glad than ever that I gave up my trumpet playing to go into engineering!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you are interested, here is the website for his custom trumpet:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><a href="https://schagerl.com/meisterinstrumente/instrument/berlin-c/?lang=en" class="">https://schagerl.com/meisterinstrumente/instrument/berlin-c/?lang=en</a></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope you get to enjoy this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All my best!</div><div class="">Bob</div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">MLA mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:MLA@grimmaudio.nl" class="">MLA@grimmaudio.nl</a><br class=""><a href="http://grimmaudio.nl/mailman/listinfo/mla_grimmaudio.nl" class="">http://grimmaudio.nl/mailman/listinfo/mla_grimmaudio.nl</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">MLA mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:MLA@grimmaudio.nl" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">MLA@grimmaudio.nl</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="http://grimmaudio.nl/mailman/listinfo/mla_grimmaudio.nl" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://grimmaudio.nl/mailman/listinfo/mla_grimmaudio.nl</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>