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Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Posted 30 Mar 2008 6:23 pm |
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It has been months and months since I checked into the forum. My transition from Steel to Brass is just about complete. I've been playing nothing but trumpet and cornet since last August and have never felt such a passion for an instrument in my life.
I didn't leave behind my collecting craze though: I've gone through 3 trumpets, 2 cornets, a flugelhorn and a pocket trumpet. My current favorite though is a modified Bach Stradivarius and about a month or so ago, I actually started playing out at some jams in town and I didn't get booed of the stage.
I'm selling all of my steel related books, videos, and DVDs over in the for sale section and also my Road-o-phonic. I'll be posting more as I find them on my bookshelves.
With that Clinesmith D8 PA reissue, I'd say I got out just in time: I would have had to mortgage the house! |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 31 Mar 2008 8:56 am
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Bill says,
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| My transition from Steel to Brass is just about complete |
Bill, in some circles they would call that backsliding. 
In other circles they would call it regression.
In others, it is a tragic divorce. What happened to the marriage? 
Aloha, 
Don |
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Bill McCloskey
From:
Nanuet, NY
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Posted 31 Mar 2008 9:34 am
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I hear you Don.
Love of jazz and particular love of jazz on a brass instrument broke up the marriage. I just could never get my head around playing jazz on the steel (although I know others have).
And playing trumpet was like coming back to my high school sweetheart: my first love. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 31 Mar 2008 10:13 am
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I'm glad to hear you're doing well and still playing music, Bill. Whatever instrument you choose, good music is the goal and the end result.
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Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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