The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for May 30, 2011

Love it.

Was she using her mute?

I may be old but, God we’ve had some great musicians in out time.

That’s four trumpets and a flügelhorn. What? No French horn players?

That’s a u-umlaut. If you’re on Windows 7, go: Start → All Programs → Accessories → System Tools → Character Map. Click the character you want (u-umlaut is on the bottom row of the startup screen, 7th from the left), click “Select”, and then click “Copy”. You can then paste it anywhere you want, like so: ü

In addition to what CoBass said, the character map is in a similar place in any Windows version. And it’s got all kinds of useful stuff in it. No break spaces so you can have a blank line:  Musical notes ♪♫Smiling faces ☺ ☻ (no mention of whether they tell lies)Hearts ♥Arrows (other directions too) →Degree symbols ° and much more.

If you have the numeric ASCII values handy, you can also get the special characters (such as the ü) by pressing the ALT key and typing in the numeric code on the keypad. Saves hunting up the character map.

That is exactly like she sounds on the Television show.

John Phillip Sousa

Flügelhorn? It has a much higher range. Peanuts used a trombone with a plunger mute. Note the “in between” pitches which are very difficult on a flüglehorn, but easy with a trombone. The plunger mute is the business end of the standard plumbing tool, minus the handle, and alternately covers and half-covers the bell of the instrument to get the “wah wah” sound.

aka Nanki Poo, “disguised as a second trombone” G&S The Mikado “If you heard him play, you know why he was second trombone” and similar running gags throughout.

miles davis is my favorite. And i’m a young pup!, well 37,,

runar: Thanks for the reminder, my ex got my Mangione, poop.

The bell on Dizzy Gillespie’s horn was bent upwards some 45 degrees or so – it was his “signature”. Didn’t stick straight out, nossir.

Cool! Thanks for the info! ♫♪♪♫ ♥ ☺ ♠♣♥♦☼