It is so good to see your smiling face and hear your voice again Ivan.
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, James. It was such a great pleasure meeting you in New Orleans some years ago. Your friendship and your wonderful videos have enriched my life.
@JamesSterling
2 жыл бұрын
@@PopsCoffee The feeling is indeed mutual Ivan.
@juanchogarciavelasco3569
2 жыл бұрын
Great to see you again!! I re-started playing the clarinet in my mid fifties during the days we were confined at home. Listening to your videos inspired be to buy two of your books on Tuba Skinny and Traditional jazz music, and really you have been my inspiration to go back to music again and re-discover a great hobby. Thanks for all you have done for us, music lovers. Do not understimate the power to make an impact on people you have never met, it is huge!
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
I am deeply touched. Thank you so much for such kind words, Juancho Garcia.
@darz3829
2 жыл бұрын
A couple of comments for info - It's always best for a repairman to loosen a tuning slide with a tool that provides a gradual pressure. But it's also effective to take a wide men's belt and snap it firmly but gently around the slide to pull it out. It helps to apply some Liquid Wrench first. I've seen this work many times. Just don't strong arm the slide enough to loosen the soldered joints. All of the players I know who have Getzens replace those horrible spit keys with regular ones. Those button ones collect puddles of spit.
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for those observations. Since I made that video, nine months ago, the lovely Yamaha has been repaired by a professional. It also has a new owner.
@JD12
2 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed your stories and the history of your instruments very much. A bit different from the usual KZitem thing. I’ve just taken up the cornet (60 years) and have joined a lovely village brass band that has been going since 1919 with the same director for 40 years! If you would like to sell your Yamaha I’d love to have a go at making her good again. Perhaps you would message me. Either way, thank you for a gentle and enjoyable video.
@wpbgmail
2 жыл бұрын
Pops, thanks very much for this interesting post.
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Bill.
@oliverz.3555
2 жыл бұрын
Three fine cornet's you have. I have an Olds Ambassador from 1967, a Reynolds Hi-Fi from 1957, a Holton Collegiate and a Conn 20 A. The last three were long built ones, I like a little more. I like to play all four horns, but most time I'm playing trumpet.
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Wow. You sound like a serious collector, Oliver. Can we tempt you into making a similar video?
@oliverz.3555
2 жыл бұрын
@@PopsCoffee I'm serious, but don't like Videos. Saturday I played the first time the Reynolds horn and a Reynolds trumpet, built in 1961.
@jazzingrandad
2 жыл бұрын
interesting Pops. You've always gone for a shepherd's crook cornet and were never tempted to try the American or long cornet so many of our heroes play. Here's wishing you all good luck for the future and don't give up on the occasional videos, they're always welcome
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks, Andy. I have a few ideas for some more 'chatty' videos, discussing aspects of our music.
@SamuelPlaysBrass
8 ай бұрын
Hi Pops, nice little demo here! Three beauties to be certain (especially enjoyed Bist Du Bei Mir on the Getzen). Yamaha, Courtois, and Getzen are responsible for some of my favorite trumpets and cornets that I've tried. Sorry to hear you're not well enough to play anymore, because I thought that for someone who got a 'late start' on the cornet you had a very pleasant and accurate jazz cornet tone. Also interesting to see another concert-pitch oriented player in the wild. My instinct is to refer to pitches in concert terms, and every time I have to explain things to my section-mates, I have to stop and think a little.
@PopsCoffee
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comments. The video was made some years ago and the Yamaha and Courtois cornets have been given to two players in an English brass band, so they are being put to good use. I still have the Getzen but my lips are now so weak that I can hardly produce a tune at all. As for referring to pitches in concert terms, this had to be second-nature when playing - as I did - in traditional jazz bands.
@axeleast8632
2 жыл бұрын
For years your videos and comments on other people's videos have inspired me to find out more about various topics. Now I want to find a written-off brass instrument to see if I can dismantle it. Thank you!
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Axel. Dismantling should be interesting. I hope you have the necessary tools.
@denniskennedy1097
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, Dennis. Since I made the video, the Yamaha has moved on. I am still playing a few notes on the Getzen from time to time, but hoping to find a good home with someone younger for the Courtois.
@MarkWYoung-ky4uc
2 жыл бұрын
Those are some fine looking cornets Pops! I hope all is well with you and Mrs. Pops.
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Mark. We're safe and well, but sad that we're too old and infirm to travel 4500 miles to New Orleans ever again.
@DanPurdy1
2 жыл бұрын
Ivan, thank you very much. I am so sorry that you are having to give up playing, except for a little noodling now and then. You have so much to pass on to the younger folk. I don’t know anything about brass instruments but I am always curious. Good information that you have given here. 🎺
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the kind words, Dan.
@ronsmith6728
2 жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear that you are retiring Ivan. I only became aware of your good self in the last 3 years at Burton JC and the Coronation and was taken with your clean and simple playing, so unusual these days. Thank you for introducing me to Tuba Skinny, they have helped me get though the lockdowns. Have a safe retirement.
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for those very kind words, Ron. All the best to you too.
@charlescopes
2 жыл бұрын
Pops, as a guitar player I have no knowledge of brass instruments. Thanks for showing us your trio of fine corners. Very interesting. As you probably know, we stringed instrument players find brass musicians to be speaking a foreign musical language.
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Charles. Of course we all have to get used to the fact that brass instruments are usually 'transposing' instruments. This means, for example, that an 'F' on a guitar would be a 'G' on my cornet. Though I am ignorant of the skills involved in guitar playing, I am hugely impressed by guitar players who play well even without chord books and who can work out by ear - and then remember - the chord structures of tricky tunes. One such is my friend Jonathan Graham (who is also an excellent trumpet player). I listened in awe as he held his guitar and worked slowly through that fiendishly-difficult tune 'Laura', never satisfied with second best but always wanting the perfect chord. Then, having worked the chord sequence out, he had it permanently in his head for public performance.
@kennethkirkman8221
2 жыл бұрын
Good to hear from you again Ivan. Sorry you've had to give up the band. it must have been a difficult decision. Roger and I are counting down to next April FQF flights and hotel St Pierre are booked. Meanwhile I've bought a Trombone and am learning SLOWLY to play it. Don Lusher videos show what can be done. Some hopes!!
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks; and that's all great news, Kenneth. I hope all goes well for the FQF, and I'm sure you will like the Hotel St. Pierre. Excellent too about the trombone!
@GordonHudson
Жыл бұрын
I play the cornet. One of mine is an Olds that previously belonged to a jazz musician called Dave Copperwaite. I also have a Conn 28A that looks like a trumpet. My main cornet is a Geneva Heritage which is quite similar to your Yamaha. I do like a long model cornet though.
@PopsCoffee
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Gordon. I remember Dave Copperwaite. I heard him play many times and I learned a lot from him. Pleased to hear about your instruments. I no longer have the Yamaha featured in this video. As at the end of 2022 and - in my mid-eighties - no longer playing, I am hoping to find someone to whom I can pass the Courtois; and then I shall be left with the Getzen.
@GordonHudson
Жыл бұрын
@@PopsCoffee I will get to that stage eventually, although I did play in a brass band with a man in his 90s who had taught Alex Welsh when he was learning cornet in the Leith band. I was trying to keep my collection of instruments smaller in size, but I also have a cornet made in Glasgow in the 1880s - very rare, and various trumpets too including a Selmner the same as the one Louis Armstrong played. I keep buying things but will eventually have to reduce the collections. Love your videos. Big fan of Tuba Skinny, which is how I found you. One of my friends is a jazz cornet player in New Orleans - Jim Thornton.
@PopsCoffee
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, again, Gordon; and I'm pleased you enjoy my videos. It must be fascinating to build up a collection of vintage brass instruments, as you have done. I don't think I came across Jim Thornton when I visited New Orleans, but there are so many musicians resident there that visitors can't get to hear more than a few.
@Mauro58
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, Pops! I'm an Italian trumpet player and I have enjoyed seeing your instruments. I too, as a second instrument, have a Yamaha 4330G cornet that I am delighted with, and I wanted to ask you why you didn't have the lock on your tuning slide repaired (as well as the little ding on the second piston pump). I think surely in your city (or very close) there will be some very good repairman, like here in Italy. Best wishes for a long, happy and music-filled life! Have a nice day!
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, Mauro. With the help of friends, I have tried everything we can think of (including the well-known heat methods) to shift the slide, but without success. A professional repair - if possible - would be costly and not worth attempting, as I have given up playing. As for your good wishes, I promise to listen to music every day and I am planning to live till I'm 100.
@Mauro58
2 жыл бұрын
@@PopsCoffee Live Long and Prosper!
@Klottorp
2 жыл бұрын
@@PopsCoffee Very good to hear, Ivan!
@PopsCoffee
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Göran. Good to hear from you, too.
@thehappyplace4u
Жыл бұрын
What beautiful instruments. I wish you could come to New Orleans and blow your horn 😊❤
@PopsCoffee
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Sadly, I'm too old and infirm to travel far any more. However, I had the pleasure a few years ago of visiting New Orleans and hearing some of the finest bands.
@thehappyplace4u
Жыл бұрын
@@PopsCoffee It looks like you’ve embraced the life of being a musical historian and Jazz expert. I think that’s a nice transition and wonderful use of your wisdom. Are you going to write another book?
@PopsCoffee
Жыл бұрын
@@thehappyplace4u No more books; but I am thinking about producing an updated version of 'Tuba Skinny and Shaye Cohn' for publication in 2023.
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