"Nope."
"You look like &#!"
"Thanks, you too. I stayed up way too late watching the Bills."
"Beer?"
"Yup."
"You know, I can have like six beers and I don't even feel a thing."
"That's nice."
"What do you have your B-flat for?"
<opens up to Mozart>
"For this note. This is why I got out of bed this morning...to come and play THIS note right here."
"You gonna pedal it or put it in A?"
(N.B.--In the Overture to Mozart's Don Giovanni the 2nd trumpet part calls for a bass clef D, impossible to play conventionally on the modern trumpet. The valveless crooked trumpets of the Mozart's day would have been able to generate the note as a fundamental tone, but to make the note come out on a modern instrument a player must either press down all three valves on a C trumpet and produce a "false" pedal note by lipping down a low F# or by extending the main tuning slide of a B-flat trumpet to pitch the horn in A and then also extending the 1st and 3rd valve slides to their full length.)
"I'm gonna put it in A."
"You could just play it up the octave."
"Do I look like a coward?"
"You should play the whole show on an A trumpet."
"Done. So what do I have to do for the de Falla...up a minor third?"
"Ha, good luck."
<rehearsing de Falla>
"I think I'm going to play each one of these Es with a different fingering."
"Okay, so 1&3, open, 3rd valve?"
"Yup."
"And...first with the first slide kicked?"
"Sounds awful, but that'll work."
"First and third with the third slide kicked?"
"Yup, that works too."
"We sound great."
<rehearsing end of de Falla>
"That actually sounded pretty good!"
<rehearsing end of de Falla again>
"That did not sound so good...what happened?"
"Haha, I think my slide keeps going further out when I play loud just from the force of the air."
"That's what you get for keeping your horn clean and your slides lubed."
<slide clatters onto floor>
"Okay, want to pull out to B trumpet for the next one?"
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