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Fri, 22 Aug 2008

Trumpeting in C.

That was somewhat strange playing. I managed to play small octave C# (trumpet Eb), which is beyond official range, and third E-F (trumpet Gb-G), which are the highest tones in the official trumpet range. It was not very reliable of course, although third C was played lots of times.
I do not know how I managed to sound them, but I did. Maybe because of two day delay in morning exercises (what the heck, I can not wake up as early as usual for the last several days).

But when I started to play some melodies (namely "He's a pirate" main theme in the 1-2 octaves, second noteset moved to 1A, i.e. one octave higher), I managed to make lips tired so quickly, that the same 10-20 first notes (not counting introduction) of the theme sounded cool only couple of times, although I 'played' about a hour.

Strange. Also found that my sounds are not clean (at least in the first octave), since they also contain sound of the breathing itself, but I noticed it at the end of the exercises, so likely I was just too tired at the end. But I will continue.

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