I mean, you can set it up with the handle on the opposite side. Or, my favorite way, you can reach across and drink with it in the crook of your elbow like an old timey moonshine jug.

I’d say the use of the 1st and 3rd slides can be taught pretty early on. The low D is sharp and needs a bit of slide, and the low C sharp is even more sharp (can be off by 25 cents or more depending on the horn) and needs more slide. These are on the mid-low range of the instrument and are some of the first notes that beginners learn to play, and they sound pretty wildly sharp without a bit of adjustment. Not that you’d need to insist on it to beginners, but it wouldn’t hurt to at least mention that the real fingering for a low D is 1+3 + slide.

In my experience when folks say their low Ds and C#s aren’t sharp, it’s usually because their main tuning slide is too far out and they’re playing everything way flat, or the horn just has major tuning issues.

Weather can definitely affect tuning, but it affects it pretty much uniformly. If it’s hot out the overall pitch will rise, if it’s cold the pitch will drop. You just adjust your main tuning slide accordingly and continue to use your valve slides the same way.

All this is to say I think the use of the slides should be part of the fingering chart. It doesn’t take much energy to learn and it makes a huge difference.

Source: I never grew out of being a band kid and play trumpet for a living.

Yep. Tiresome and it doesn’t actually do anything about the issue. You could even argue it gives people a false sense of action and makes them less likely to do basic shit like vote.

So we should just echo chamber it on every Lemmy thread? Do you really think there’s anyone here on the other side of this issue?

There are any number of things you could do that might actually have a meaningful impact if that’s what’s so important to you. Gloom and dooming on a meme comments thread is not one of them. Don’t act like I’m stopping you from changing the world here, I’m just saying feeling bad for yourself on a forum full of people who already agree with you isn’t productive.

Organize a protest or write a politician if you feel so strongly about it. No? Then let people enjoy internet memes in peace without making every single thread about these issues.

Jesus christ even in a meme thread about skiing. It’s Lemmy…we all know about global warming you don’t need to point it out in every fucking post.

Like, look…I know it’s important to talk about. But maybe, just maybe, we don’t need to make every single comment section about global warming and eating the rich. Just a thought.

Looks like she’s setting up an arm bar, though tough to tell without being able to see her left arm and weird that she’s not gripping anything with the right. Could be coming from a closed guard type position (with him between her legs) and then pivoted to get the arm bar. It’s entirely possible she just let go of both arms to give/receive instruction.

Edit: Although yeah…doesn’t make much sense for her left leg to be on the ground then. Who knows…

Andy Buckley, the guy who played David Wallace on The Office. He was a financial advisor at the time and they wanted him because he looked/sounded like an executive. Totally knocked it out of the park.