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I did the Hudson's parade a few times and a couple in Canada and one in Florida (never did Macy's)
Believe me, the Florida one was by far the worst
The 50-70 degree days with practices in October are where you get the stamina.
I honestly looked forward to the colder ones, no problem staying warm, but trying to cool off in the Florida parade was nigh impossible.
Once it gets cold enough the horn starts freezing, though, is also not pleasant.
The warm air you blow thru the horn condensates and freezes, causing multiple issues no matter how much oil you put on the valves or grease on the slides.
/but it does build character <grin>
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🎼 Why 432 specifically gets attention
This is where things get interesting for musicians like you:
432 Hz tuning has been romanticized as “more natural,” “cosmic,” or “mathematically pure” 4+3+2=9, 9 is magic in mathematics and music.
🌀 Why this makes 9 feel mystical
Even without the Tesla mythology, 9 has some genuinely strange properties:
Any number multiplied by 9 reduces back to 9
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Any number added to 9 reduces to the same digital root as the original number
9 is the only digit that behaves like this
It’s the absorber and the eraser at the same time.
🎸 A musical parallel you might appreciate
It’s a bit like a drone note in music:
It’s always present
It colors everything
But it doesn’t change the harmonic identity of the chord you’re playing over it
It’s both part of the sound and outside the movement
That’s why people get drawn to 9 — it has that “always there, always not there” quality you just described.
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Not too shabby for a college kid. "There is a unique complexity to this language because while learning it, the only way to comprehend it is to put it into action."
"People conversing in the language of music all express themselves at the same time to create a harmonic blend of sound and rhythm that moves not only the artists but also all those within hearing distance."
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Especially when you are playing trumpet in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 30F temperature - been there - done that. Here in South Florida, the winters are usually mild. But when a huge deep-freeze blizzard hits the northeast states, we might get the tail end. Night temperatures in the low 40s and only 60 in the day. Then it warms back up to the 60s at night and 70s in the day typically the next day, and rarely a couple. My first year of high school, our band marched in the Orange Bowl parade. It's something they did every year. Yes, it was one of “those” nights. I had long pajamas under my band uniform, and still froze. The next year I had a gig offer. I asked the band director for advice. He told me to take the gig. We can march with one less saxophone, and the gig experience will be good for you. Even though the band marched in the Orange Bowl every year, that was the last one for me. On New Year's Eve, there are more gigs available than there are musicians to fill them. So it's easy to get booked. Plus, it's the one night of the year when we get paid what we think we are worth, thanks to supply and demand. Notes ♫
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Here in South Florida, the winters are usually mild. But when a huge deep-freeze blizzard hits the northeast states, we might get the tail end. Night temperatures in the low 40s and only 60 in the day. Then it warms back up to the 60s at night and 70s in the day typically the next day, and rarely a couple.
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Notes ♫ You're breaking my heart Notes  Woke up at 7:30AM yesterday to 2F (-16.7C) and today at 1:30PM it is 9F (-13.8C). Now I have to go out and snowblow and shovel my driveway.
Checkout person "Did you find everything OK"?
Me "Why do you ask? Are you guys hiding stuff"?
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Same here Mario, I cannot even get out of driveway. It will be -1 in the morning with more snow on the way.
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I’m looking out at snow that is paralyzing the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York and remembering this would have been called a little dusting where I grew up in the Adirondacks. About playing the trumpet in the cold, this is why there are so many people who USED to play trumpet. I frequently wonder what they know that I don’t.
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