“Mnozil, Mouthpieces and Kissbones” Zoltan Kiss, the incredible daredevil trombone player from Mnozil Brass talks to Sarah Willis live on the Horn Hangouts talks about his career with Mnozil and as a soloist and introduces his new Kissbone X and mouthpiece collection. And plays live in the studio too!
Transcript
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So I see the little live button in my screen I hope that means you’re all out there write in and tell us if it’s all working and you can see us we had a few uh few technical problems to put it mildly but you know that’s the world of online communication welcome back to the horn Hangouts and it’s a really special day because we have the wonderful
Sultan kiss with us um I just wanted to say uh it’s been a very sad day here at the filon because as you know Maestro clao abadoo um passed on this morning and we’ve been very busy all day at the filmon with tributes for him and um I just felt I couldn’t not say anything on the hangout because well he was a very very important person for all of us and so um we are thinking of him and his family and very very grateful for what he did for classical music and and all of us especially here at the
Berlin pH philarmonic and I definitely don’t want that to take away from the hangout tonight claudo wouldn’t have wanted either so we thought to start this wonderful hangout with Sultan kiss Sultan is ready at the piano I think with his accountant yek I hope I said that right and you’re going to play us in with with a little piece so take it away it’s
Sal [Music] time [Music] n [Music] huge appla Applause I hear everyone on the horn hangout right now applauding from all over the world right you guys Salan welcome thank you y did I say this name right you’re wonderful pianist yeah thank you thank you thank you Salan welcome it was quite a difficult half an hour because we couldn’t get everyone hooked up yeah it was really difficult it’s just um it’s just a phenomen of internet and online streaming
I just pretend that I’m from from maybe a spaceship so this all the slow movements and flying objects like my new mouthpiece oh what’s that wow and I I just touch it and goes in other direction start sending in your questions for him I’m gon to chat a little bit because actually Sultan and I have only met very briefly in
Berlin haven’t we um very very briefly but um I just we just had to have him on the horn Hangouts because the story was we had Christian Lindberg exactly and you tell us the story Oh no just um my wife my beautiful wife Sky um SK um yeah so she just W woke me up hey you have to get up it’s it’s
Christian online and I was like oh yeah yeah yeah great great great he said yeah yeah and then shall I say hello shall we say hello and then yeah yeah please please um because sky was of course doing the typing and um yes we just said hello from Vienna and all people started to to greet me back and um while
Christian was telling her a very interesting story I just said ah thanks guys for for recognition just just let’s listen to the master I remember I remember um then and then we decided that moment that we were going to get you on the horn hangout so we’re really happy you’re here um tell us exactly where you are and what you’re doing there um actually
I’m mean an can you tell can you say it yeah in the Netherlands and um yesterday I was playing with M BR [Music] in and it was fantastic concert and um I have my great friend here Ben who’s behind another computer the same room at this point we need to say Ben Ben croing is that right yes
Ben croing ladies and gentlemen it’s great thank you so much for everything you’ve done today Ben for setting all this up I mean look at it it’s amazing it’s a really professional setup yeah it’s it’s thanks to him he’s that guy tell me quickly about your connection um please Ben few words um yes we had two years ago the
Le trombone festival and suan was invited as a soloist on that and teacher on the festival and yeah that was a lot of fun a lot of quality and we invited them again for this year great yeah you do he’s helping me with everything he’s he’s the guy he’s the man man Ben you’re the man thank you without you this thank you thank you get back behind the camera so sutan you have amazing fans out there you would not believe it you’ve got
Texas you’ve got Macedonia Melbourne Brazil Chile Cairo inbrook England um all over the place you have got people watching for from everywhere and um and so we want to know a little bit about you we don’t really want to know the stuff you we can Google we want to know the nitty-gritty stuff because did you know when
I Googled you this is what I got wow yeah but read it hung in football player ah yeah that’s great that’s great oh foot yeah and the picture is right so yeah it’s a bit confusing well the the the thing is that zultan is like number four or number three in popularity list in Hungarian names and and can you can’t maybe you can’t believe it but
Kish what we say Kish kiss with double s actually it’s like number two number three number two so many many many many kishes are outside in the world with the name and zans and yeah it just happens to be a few football players and actually is a a boxer in Poland yeah I got him as well but you know
Poland Poland is where you went to stud study right yeah you went to study and I actually there were quite a few polish students um at the concert the other night and they said oh yeah we know we know sulan and I said well tell me some of some of the stories about Sultan and they said you know
Sultan was always going to be a star right from the very beginning it was clear that you were going to be a star and they said when you went to competitions you would always they they they put it like this they said you would smoke the Winner’s cigar already before the competition [Laughter] yeah it’s a true story was is don’t don’t take me arrogant
I was um I don’t know 18 17 and we just decided that hey normally people are smoking cigar after they winning a competition or some priz so let’s let’s go to the PB and now let’s let’s smoke this cigar before the finals so you were sure and you did win didn’t you yes I did win you did win performing you just knew that’s what you wanted to do right you were just and were you always an acrobat on the trombone right from the beginning uh no no my my
Beginnings were like I wanted to actually I wanted to be in a boy band all my life like really like like you know oh baby you know like this this kind of thing it was so funny I was pretending playing on the keyboard and in front of the mirror and was really bad um but you studied dance though you were going to be a dancer you like that yeah
I love dancing uh I was in the dance school and I at one point I had to had to decide if I go seriously with the dancing or I just take the path with the music because I didn’t I couldn’t do both because the both cools were very strict with uh with hours so I I I kind of decided because music
I can do longer than dance so I would finish my career now in your job now you do use dancing a lot I saw the moon walk oh yeah so um that’s the great thing that I as I I hit the jackpot with with noil yeah because I can just do you know fool around pretend that I’m in a boys men um say not is really a boy band actually you made it into your boys band well yeah he’s like the brass boys man someone’s just written someone’s just written in the chat a wz just wrote
Sultan the Backstreet Boy that’s so you were always an acrobat on the trombone I’ve I’m I’m always been inspired by um of course the great giants like like um Christian who showed me what’s possible in trombone because I I thought this was kind of limited that the trumpet is more free to do uh technical things on instrument and um yeah and he just he just opened my eyes wow it’s all possible so
I just go for it and this Elizabeth C hi Elizabeth she just asked she said who was your musical inspiration in your younger years so I guess I guess it was a big big part was Christian I think my generation everybody could say that one of the pillars of inspiration was Christian Lindberg yeah I I had lot of from from
Bill watus uh Jigs weam and um actually minor Ferguson Bill Chase from trumpet players now talking um actually a big fan of the trumpet I I actually play the trumpet privately don’t tell anybody yeah um um and I love the the the big band music and I love the bass bone and I like the lead trumpet and
I always about the French horn French horn yes French horn yes what was that the French horn player for goodness sake actually I think French horn is the most difficult Bron instrument here here all the horn players watching this are going here here we agree we can’t but um yeah yeah trombone is pretty difficult as well um so you studied in
Poland you had this wonderful Trio your your brass Trio that you you toured the world and I oh yeah the war of brass Trio we like friend um high school friends and we tried to play in bras quintet didn’t work out we tried to play in the bras quartet but my brother left the country back to Hungary so we left with with us three three so we just decided try to to make it work it’s quite difficult because the the literature is not that that great for brast trios there’s some nice there’s some nice videos of you guys on
YouTube and I like the hair you got to tell us about the hair tlan because you had like this incredible ponytail and you had a shaved eyebrow that was all part of the sultan before yeah this was the sultan before when he wasn’t well known and I needed to do something to look different than anybody else and then
I got into the mle and I got more more worldwide recognized and I started to do my things my stuff and then I suddenly didn’t need to shave my eyebrow or have long hair is anything is there any Scar left or anything or is it all is it all still there no no it’s just now it’s growing really lot so
I could do like here a little pony tail now from no no it’s all fine so suly you said in the interview before you said umil how do they pronounce it not well originally should be ulil yeah it’s a Czech Czech name family name but they moved like long long time ago to Vienna and then actually like the
Z is pronounced set in German so it’s just became nil not okay yeah this was a pop it was po I know yeah there’s a pub called notil Gast house so notil Pub and yeah so that’s the name coming from it’s opposite the the hula where you guys were were all yeah yeah it’s just just across the street and um guys are hanging out playing folk and
Jazz and become very popular in the area and of course others wanted to hire the bands so they needed a name and they were really good friends with the family who’s owning the PB the notu family so they decided Well we just call ourselves not to brass and um I’ve just lost you sorry modern technique I’ve got all the
I’ve got the chat going on next to me that you can’t see but I will send be sending you a copy of the chat so you guys any messages you want to get to Salan if I don’t get to your questions write them all down because um he will get a copy of this chat so he’ll be able to read what’s going on for example
Kai just wrote and said he loves your recording of the plog Trio with Warsaw brass Trio yeah Anthony plug he’s a great guy yeah and um oh there’s all sorts of things about your warm-up routine and your practice session but we’ll get to that in a secil made you a star I mean you were obviously a star before but they made you really famous in the trumbone world yeah when
I when I started in the band I was like yeah I’m I’m really excited and uh Thomas told me like oh don’t worry wait a month or two you’ll be everywhere and you guys are literally on the road all the time I mean you’re all over the place we yeah I think once we made a count it was like 27 countries around 27 countries maybe it’s more now um and 130 concerts now we try to push it down because it’s getting the family is getting bigger and we try to to squeeze in some family time yeah you guys are all daddies um almost all of
You everybody’s a daddy the last Roman is the last so he become daddy Roman’s a daddy I didn’t know that okay yeah is a daddy now I still can’t believe it just look at him there are many women out there are going to be very sad about that yeah um so uh Richard in Melbourne hello Richard he’s a regular horn hangout um friend of ours he wanted to know how easy was it for you to fit into nozil when you were invited to join because there was another trombo player in it before you yes um actually it was before me like the main member was
Sebastian fuks begger he’s now a great tenor he’s in Solo tenor in leig at the Opera House M wow and and um after him was for a very short time at partica on B bone and they were really looking for uh somebody to quickly get in but they didn’t know who to invite so they made like a silent audition like just for for a couple of friends jazz players and
Symphony Orchestra players professionals like you know just Jaz players who who they thought might might fit and they yeah it was just a big the biggest acent for me my thank you very much go um I met them in in on the way on the on their polish Poland tour if you say Poland tour polish tour yeah polish tour and uh we met in kco and
I just I was the guy around there I didn’t even know the guys and just I I was just helping them around we a how did how did you do that at the beginning because um they KN they play everything for memory so you had to learn all this stuff yeah so they just when they they invited me to the audition
I I I was really scared because I I thought I’m you know as say I’m the type who plays from music I’m the type who can memorize stuff and um I’m the type who can play Only from musicar that was the big shock like you know we don’t use Street Music and said okay so can I learn uh actually here is a video and learn it from that yeah
I got some like copies like like the melody starts and then it’s bank and then it appears and another side and yeah it was really that’s their music because because Leon has just asked a question Leon pnik if I pronounced that right and he said how long do you need to learn all the all the program by heart so how long did you need well the problem
H was that the guys were a bit delayed with the music for me and I really had to speed it up and learn in a maybe in a couple of days oh God couple of days yeah and then my first gig was a radio live gig through the ORF Ein the radio Center first in in in Austria and we for the last moment we didn’t know if
I I joined the band for that first concert because it was very important it was a radio sending and then I just I just practice through the night with the DVD on my back and just just just you know looking at the movements and uh and we we we had a a quick rehearsal before the concert and they said ah it’s all fine now and and
I just joined them yeah I bet there was a lot of beer after that concert ah yeah it was was really great and actually I met Sebastian after that concert and he was very happy okay with me too so it was really really good was from me really really nervous time and then new country new people new band actually first time really professional professional lot of music to know
I was very nervous but one thing was for sure that my humor and um um the energy between us in the group was from the very first moment so it was really hand in hand so really really good so that’s that was the most important the rest was just the rest is knowledge like just had to learn the stuff but to hang on stage and have fun was from from the beginning this has been one of my favorite
Hangouts to research because I actually just died laughing there is so much fantastic stuff out there on YouTube of of the guys playing um do Bohemian rap cides playing the recorder out of their noses um trying to play their instruments while they’re pretending to be cowboys on horses you guys are just absolutely hysterical I I I love it so thank you if if you watching why don’t you guys write into the chat show tell us your favorite noil um
YouTube excerpt so that we can all have a look at them because there’s so much out there and I just kept I I had you on all the time yesterday it was just it was fantastic there’s so much great stuff there um Solan we have some prominent viewers tonight atina Ting hset has just joined us she’s watching in
Copenhagen at the airport and Matias herfs and his son Tilman are watching in Hamburg so hi to you guys thank you very much for joining us so um yeah all the trumpet players are out watching you so how about the Trump players yes yes trumpet players are watching me I made it you made it um tell tell me uh
Dustin has asked a question a very good question what do you do in a memory lapse what do you do when you forget what you have to do what do you guys do memory laps um um you laugh um I just have a memory no no the thing is it’s great thing that we we improvise improvise comedy and sometimes we really just fool around just trying what works good with the audience what’s not so we little space for that and when something happens we just improvise we just work around it you know it’s meant to be like that it’s meant to be that
I forget it’s meant to be like so it was great it’s planned planned comedy you know planned chaos plan it can always work you know if you if you remember that that point is is sure and you can just fool around and and meet at that point and it’s still scary playing without music I mean I couldn’t imagine it in my
Orchestra and not only that dancing and singing and everything oh actually one helps the other so I I I realize that a little bit of humor and just telling a few jokes and we just fooling around on stage it just makes um makes you forget about all that maybe tension what comes with learn uh playing um by heart so it really helps have a few jokes and you is just relaxing the body and and of course we hours of practice um 10 hours for for a month we are sit together and play so there’s a solid work done before you you also have a um
You have a produ a director who works out all this stuff so how much is is his of his of the silly jokes are his and how much do you guys work into it well naturally the jokes are are mostly coming from us it’s it’s about the director’s job to to make it look good but we like being our mirror mirror so just um seeing that with the eyes of the of the public so it’s a
Public’s eye and and just just fooling around giving the gags in sync because it might happen that somebody’s out of focus because too many H too much happening on on on stage so it’s kind of the job is to make us organized because we all like to fool fool around hey look at me look at me and so each of you get your moment everyone’s writing in where favorite moments the
Eastman horn girl say Bohemian rapid the the slow motion um the slow motion one is a really good one that is just I love that one yeah it’s like some of one of this one of these things yeah or the punch myv the punch look like our hangout test earlier on yeah looks like a hangout it’s like is it
Punch Coming like really slow motion and no it’s like the I’m just fooling around it’s coming from actually rehearsing a piece and just start to fool around or my voice is not that difficult so just going like la la la la la and then going and then joking around with with Thomas or or or mostly Thomas because
I always see him so he’s like when he’s he’s all quickly ear his voice and then he’s just fooling around looking always somewhere and and our eyes are meeting and just his with the age differences the the least with Thomas and he’s into movies and special effects and me too and just yeah just works yeah I heard you were you know the best way to do research is to ask people close to you um you know the things that you can’t
Google so I had a nice little conversation with your wife Sky um of over via Facebook of course cuz it was about 3:00 in the morning and she said you’re a big softy and actually when you’re not playing the trombone you like to watch movies she said but you always cry at Movies much much sooner than she does it’s true that’s true yeah
I don’t know I just watched yesterday like the 12 year slave and I was just crying like a baby so yeah oh so I’m just softy yeah she said if you weren’t a trombone player you would have been a cook yes well if I wouldn’t be a dancer and a TR player probably I would end up being a cook
I love the just throwing stuff together steamy the chili kills my eye and you know tell me about dinner night dinner nights yeah one of my favorites I’m just inviting friends over you know that better actually uh you inviting friends together all artists friends once a week at your place and in our place and we just cook cook something up something simple and and yeah we just hang out okay that’s that sounds good so
I think we need you need to invite all the horn hangout viewers okay I just hire a mension and then so you know what I’m just going to get through some questions now because the chat’s going crazy and um there’s some really great stuff going on out there um so Louis says hi Zan looking forward to seeing you soon in
Argentina yeah hey Louis hey yeah tell us quickly what you’re going to do there um actually we’re preparing um the premier of my really solo recital with with yat and um hi yat and so so lucky had the opportunity to to fly to Argentina is ver and there is a is a brass Festival going on for a couple of years now and it’s great so we’ll just we’ll do our first night trombone in piano
Night piano and trombone night yeah that sounds cool um Austin wants to know do you have any plans to coming to the US for concerts and master classes yes yes I have I would have plans if somebody ask me um yeah of course students are very interested I just I didn’t have yet the official um connection or contact
I might go to Ben to Canada was Yen Slinderman was interested want to come oh it’s beautiful there yeah is really fantastic uh um more more happening for now more and Europe what is was very very cool I might go next year to New Zealand Bros Festival oh wonderful what’s great of course maybe a couple of gigs on the way in
Australia we have to see well you know what people are going to be able to catch up on or watch exactly what you’re doing on something we are going to announce at the end of this hangout so um we’ll keep the surprise for a bit later you guys are going to wait for the surprise it’s coming right at the very end of the hangout um so a couple more things
Adam from Cairo says can you say something to us in Hungarian please he’s from from something in Hungarian and that’s yeah for now inan which mean oh I just said that I’m really happy everybody’s watching because I like to be watched and I hope who understand doesn’t laugh too much now and yeah that’s that’s it for now a okay here we go again before we get back on track um a lot of people are asking this question um they want to know how you avoid hurting your lip and how you manage to get the endurance for noil concert because the last time
I heard heard you guys in Berlin I went out like that you had blasted me against the wall I was like in the in the 20th row I’ve never heard such a loud noise in all my life and this went on for two hours how do you guys you in particular how do you manage not to hurt yourselves oh
I don’t know I’m I’m I was always like I said I’m really interested in the technique and and the lead trumpet technique and and is about projection so not how strong I actually holding the instrument or or pushing against my lips or or how intense I’m I’m blowing into the instrument but actually how it projects how is um a tongue technique what
I use with lead trumpets using a lot tell us what that is oh it’s just um something like I I because I can’t change the size of the mouthpiece during the playing but I have tops yes so I have to change the lips yeah but it’s also limited and what I can do is change the size the inside the size on inside my mouth and to do that you you use your your tongue like when you speak yeah you need you need the short word or a deep voice or you you want to pronounce something in other languag and all changing um positions and that’s
How I get the projection when I push up my tongue up and forward it’s less space in my mouth so the air is faster um getting through my mouth and this is one of the things I do to get really good projection and that’s how I I gain loud not losing actually power from lips so so that that saves actually
CU you’re actually projecting we do that a lot in in our section we project forwards with the air to because the minute we do that and use a smiling ERS sure it takes too much uh too much yeah when yeah it’s just the the the the playing with your muscles loud is limited you have probably like 30 30 to a minutes if somebody’s like really really strong you maybe a couple of minutes and and just you lose intonation sound everything after one after the other just just goes off okay and what you can do is how to learn how to to use the air and
You use your muscles to keep your lips together and and keep it on the mouthpiece all the time do you guys ever practice quiet Yes actually we do what happens before a manoto concert what happens backstage H what happens backstage the the the the not the x-rated version the one you can tell live on the internet massage is happening um lot of of lot of you know inspiring each other you play long notes do you do you play flexibility exercises what do you we play very silent and long notes so very slow and and
Silent slow and Silent slow and silence like nothing like nothing yeah nothing like we just go really like yeah like this no it’s it’s pretty much everybody has their their um his own warming up and and the trauma are joining each other and just play through a couple of places from the show just for fun just for tuning and and finding the balance because when we find the the perfect balance there is an extra projection of the band so that’s might be one of the one of the secrets that if you if you if you manage to match each other’s volume on stage it gives
An extra push yeah um a volume get nervous before performances or is it just too much fun I’ve been always very excited before performing like I’m sometimes over excited so I go in St got like you just really want to say something and then you you blocked and that’s might might happen but of course playing 130 120 concerts a year yeah it’s um you get used to that and you you’re more focused about what
I want to do how I want to do and just when you do so well something you you looking forward what people how people react what can I do can I push more jokes if I push the joke in should I should I continue that joke as a running gag because people liked it so just keep doing that during the show but not too much and everybody has that so it it can happen yeah yeah um tell me
Austin wants to know again um how much did you practice in order uh to play the last note in summer time what is the last note in summertime it’s it’s that one isn’t it that one I didn’t know I thought it’s this one but you you say that one uh I don’t know maybe mean this one but
I think I don’t know this one you see one of the things one of the things is the the high notes one of the secrets psychology secrets that the notes are here not there they’re here here you play play them here like a not not try to squeeze um but of course this was extreme it was a what is that is a triple triple
F I don’t want to know because I’ve never played one in my life after wait let just let me let me check it if I can still play it okay yeah I still can play it so yeah this was the triple F you have that in the schnapi as well in your schnapi schnaps I have a triple
D I don’t go to that maybe sometimes when I I I but that’s not a real note how are you getting that out you’re just sort of flattening and you’re flattening the lips inside and just sort of vibrating it out no what what you’re saying that you putting your lips together and you vibrating them and they are not real notes how you do the other notes how do you get those notes it’s ridiculous
I don’t know it’s [Music] just [Music] and it was a double I see on the trumpet yeah would be was okay um what would you say is your most important exercise Kai wants to know most important exercise lately the most exercise is really long notes through all all over the trombone like not all over like on mean the classical register all over the trone just to relase then and and try like a breathing exercise like a yoga exercise you just really control the air and just relax and and get the not um connected and just try to call myself don’t worry if it doesn’t come
Out if I split a note don’t worry just do it because it’s a yoga exercise there is a breathing exercise nobody’s recording watching or or judging so just I judge myself too much like I everything has to be perfect and then I I psych out on on on pieces yeah yeah so that’s that’s I think is this my favorite of course
I like then fooling around and and practicing uh technical difficulties and it was all I love it all the time how to break through um thank you Christian yeah I just how to break through walls of difficulties and be um be like a trumpet trumpet I always thought trumpet is like a head of Trumble with technical possibilities and it turns out it’s everything possible you just it’s is it is in your head what you can how you limited the limit is in your head you say okay that’s enough
I can’t go further your dear wife said that you don’t practice all that much at least not when you’re with her she says a couple of hours of really good intensive practice and that’s that that’s good for you yeah yeah so I’m really focused when I when I I need this kind of Zen exercise because after that
I’m going for the really difficult technical exercises and I just really want to First relax to get the power yeah yeah to get that to that point I can really focus and and practice places like no I’m just working on the on the Carnival what I will first time I’ll play in Argentina um someone’s just asked I sorry
I missed the name it’s way way down you want to wants to know about your next CD do you have one planned well we we we started uh with yat to working on a funk album a funk album yat can you dance as well do you have to dance better than not I think I always stick with the piano maybe okay no it’s it’s it would be fun album
I I try to to work around some maybe well-known lines trombone solos or trombone literature take them a little bit UNS seriously but seriously as a funk band and and then we’ll see what happens I’m still in progress we just we just started like a month ago so well your two CDs are out and I can only recommend them like maybe one of you can um write in the links where you can get them because slideshow especially the the slideshow is is really
I mean it was an incredible debut but you said your second CD was actually your favorite your yeah the Rebellion is my favorite it’s just fantastic um I know it sounds like oh yeah fantastic hang on your city but I was working with yek and um Adam Adam Raa fantastic trumpet player he’s really incredible he just so flexible in the trumpet like a
Claret player just go all over the the the the the horn is unbelievable and unbelievable energy and inspiring energy and we were just just really had fun with really intense five days and we managed to have a our view through the brass instruments to to to how we understand Pat’s music how we see P music at that moment in that time and space so and
I think it’s it’s it’s it’s my best playing so far and it doesn’t have to be all all virs yeah but musically I think it’s the best thing I ever done till now I I hope it’s more to come more and more not only more to come but we have some special things that you’re so we can tune the note because it’s it’s naturally not on uh on the throne bone the problem is always to go back to the same tuning yeah so what
I I’m I’m pulling it out and when I’m pulling it back it stops at the point I was tuned because it has a little thing yeah like the yeah we can see it yeah and the same happening um here so extra slide I can just pull it out and pull it back without you know the problem is that you oh you have to pull it out and then pull it back and look if it’s in the same place so
I can just do blindly just go and pull out the stuff the first kiss bone the original kiss bone couldn’t do that or what no the original kiss bone couldn’t do that and the original kbon had a Hagman valve uh system and Hagman valve I’ll just not the French one okay and we decided to to go with our own and go back to the roots so go with a classic rotary valve okay like it was was always before when it all started this revolution with the new new
Wes okay great and looks like a horn really happy with the action really happy with the action especially when I have to do the weo stuff it’s a really very very small action yeah it’s can do this like of [Music] all yeah like this for the variation would be fantastic um it’s not bad yeah yeah it’s still working thanks but so this is mainly what changed so just kind of a little bit clean up the old ideas and put in new ones and with the that of course the original now is shager wve system in it so it’s everything made in the same place and
We have control over the quality control over it I’m really happy when can we buy sorry when can we buy it you going to able to buy it you have to sell your horn first um problem now it’s actually it will be the music Messa in March and uh we will be I’m going to be there from the 14th of
March in frankurt in Frankfurt for for two days to Frankfurt so is going to be at the music Messa and he’s going to cook for us all if we all turn up then he’s going to take us all to dinner right cook for us yes yes s yes yes we will hang out we will have actually a live camp for the whole whole day for two or three days and we will do we will have a midday uh jam with with peop are who are coming to the stand it will be the ledge company and the
Sher company they join into one stand and we’re going to advertise and then let everybody know about my about the new trombone and actually about the new mouthpiece yes mouthpiece is the next question because quite a few people have said what is that sexy oh Tom Hundley in Seattle just said my cats just woke up when they heard you playing that’s good hi
Tom um people have been saying what is that sexy mouthpiece I mean only brass players can find sexy mouthpieces sexy I’m sure my mom who is watching in England hi Mom I’m sure she probably doesn’t think mouthpieces are very sexy but oh that’s a very sexy look tell us about your sexy mouthpiece my sexy mouthpiece uh well the first thing is um about this mouthpie actually
I have another one is just the one I’m just playing the still testing and testing and testing it will go go very soon uh to to serious production the best thing in the mouthpiece I was really really surprised how the wood can actually help me tell me about the wood because I couldn’t see that that’s wood from here yeah this is eony yeah eony wood what
I believe they use it to the woodwi instruments yeah and um what is fantastic is it’s the mouthpiece is really light because the the wood part is not thick it’s actually actually uh it’s just a thin layer of wood what allowed what we were believe in the beginning it might took away the edge of the the mouthpiece and maybe become too too soft too mut you know uh but mainly mouth wood wooden mouth pieces are too soft they’re just not they’re good for
Maybe barck music or or um some chamber music but not all around uh mouthpieces and what I when I believe that the right combination might might get the best from both words worlds and um that combination of metal skeleton and wood allow to have me the the the power I need in nbras but also in in very bad
Acoustics what happens sometimes I’m just I’m just getting out the softest sounds and and I don’t have to really wor on controlling it it just works perfectly and I never had this before I never had it before really I’m really I I never had it before I’m so tell us in Bach terminology what is the size FID
F bone FID bone wants to know what what’s what is the actual size is is there a 5G probably like a 5G of B it’s it might have a another feeling it’s just the the the shape of the rim but it’s it’s like a classical classical Trum mouth piece size yeah the one Wonder happens the Wonder happens with the with the cup size and and the materials we use is just is just allows it’s it’s a little bit different feeling because it’s a it’s a light mouthpiece okay but it’s pretty powerful
I don’t know You’ been on Mon concert so you can say it’s pretty powerful is very powerful blown away but um the focus is very good um okay because the the the general knowledge says go with putting a lot of mess in the mouthpiece and you gain control but the problem is that when you do a lot of mess in the on the mouthpiece you lose the overtones so what are you going to do what we what do what if strip the mouthpiece from that all that unnecessary mess and replace it with a touch of wood what happens then and we just we it’s not
Was yesterday it was two years ago we started to build a mouthpiece yeah it’s hand smoke is great great that’s a question someone wants to know did you build a mouth with Lynch or with shago they build mouth with Lech uh company and especially with h smok he’s he’s a very shy okay guy and he’s a perfect
Master he just loved the work and he put his soul and and time into this mouthpiece and he and he he managed to put the two materials together you know I just said oh just put it together let’s see what happens and actually he worked it out that he made some magic and a couple couple questions you’re you’re you’re in love with this mouthpiece
I’m in love with how it looks I want one for horn I really would like to try hor Matias wants to know is there a Bas trombone version of the mouthpiece available oh no not yet um I was working now you did the tenor and Alto because that’s what I’m used to most of the time Bas is not yet but let’s see how people react and then if it’s a good reaction this mouthpiece then maybe we we we think about to to make it mouthpiece question is the wood from
W who’s um asked a lot of questions sorry I haven’t got to all of them the wood is on the outside only for the weight the wood is on the outside it’s um yeah it’s probably the weight I I tried the mouthpiece without the wood on it and I had to say I I didn’t have that control it’s just it’s just was a skeleton mouthpiece if you know the throne players
Jess players play like really skeleton mouthy sometimes uh who likes it and um I think the wood was just kind of finding that little touch to not to to to what happens normally with wood and Brass meets wood grabs the brass and holds it and you just doesn’t vibrate that well well can you can you ask him to develop one for horn as well and get get
Sky to um the the one of the secrets the the the the wood is is special treated very very um quite thin okay so we didn’t for the mess we went for the where it touches which place it touches and how it touches and this is unfortunately this is u i tell that so we can we can try well everyone else can try it all out at the music
Messa in Frankfurt because you’ll be showing them all then um exactly um talking about mouthpieces is a really important part of a brass player’s life especially on the horn Hangouts everybody wants to know about mouthpieces we’re almost at the end of The Hangout I’m very sad to say and and so so you have you have a piece for us another one to play for us don’t you yeah
I will I will yeah I have a little little oldie to play we can say that now miss okay um let me just read you just a couple more things um yeah Tim fell asleep right it’s very early in the morning thank you Kendall um uh we have some friends of yours in Qatar watching some Hungarian uh people watching in katar
David from katar and uh oh I missed the name you guys better write in again anyway Salan will be reading all this so he’ll know who’ll be watching um Kristoff says hi Su and Obie strings are also watching so we got strings hey guys they must have fallen asleep at the mouthpiece talk Daniel in Rome was asking if you m guys are naturally talented at singing or do you do some training to sound so good um it was for me it was part of the audition
I had to sing really cool David in katar says please tell him that Sako Norbert is watching oh so there you go um and and Lee says Tim has a lovely surprise and you have Hungarian there are some Hungarian fans in Qatar watching so my goodness I mean they’re really everywhere um Lee Alexander is a great friend of the horn
Han outs and and she said Tim is a lovely surprise so if the surprise doesn’t work then um yeah I just have a if if I if you allow me to say it because we yeah we will finish it soon I just wanted to mention because it’s very close to me the of course the two the two sponsors and um both are planning a um bro
Festival first going to happen of course the music Messa in March if I will be there on from the 13th 14th of March uh we will let everybody know of course uh later that’s going to happen the Shaga BR Festival in July please just go on on the Shaga website and check it out it’s going to be fantastic the new instruments to
Pro to introduce the new bass Trum trumpet will be available to test and buy and and many Fantastic players and I will play a solo with the Blazer fil Harmony and we will be with nil so it’s a lot lot to see James is going to be there the fantastic fantastic J Morrison I’ll be there yeah the
James going to be there there what are the jam James we yeah yeah so I one of the guys I was listening like yeah wow he can do it I can do it so it was really inspiring and um the other thing is Lech Festival is also coming up it’s going to happen in December it’s going to happen on between the 16th and the 21st of
December uh just before Christmas and we would like to have everybody to to get to to the website and check it out what’s going to happen many people will come jigs bigam going to be be there um Carol Jarvis and um a lot more surprise solists we to be announced soon but it will be fantastic yeah I be there that there is something happening happening today um that we are going we are in on because it’s happening it’ll happen like now this minute that tell us we are launching something today live on the horn
Hangouts well what’s going to be launching is like my website finally is ready and we’re going to launch it we’re going to launch it in three two one and it’s online it’s online now this very second tell us the address Ben online is it online is it online is it online Ben Ben uh yeah so the website is on and um all the infos
I’m sorry www.san kiss Zan kiss.com www zultan kiss.com please you do that yeah so um will be all the info there all about the festival sha Festival ledge Festival my new mouthpieces the the new trombone all about my projects the rebell album the slideshow the the people I’m playing with what’s going on with me where are we and you can contact me book me in the states every everything every everything is possible now and it’s all in one place and it’s always been a difficulty to visit this website isit this isit this album is here this album is there and it’s all thank to
Ben gring he going to be so Ben has made this website for you congratulations Ben yeah thank you sir Ben you are a hero of the brass World why haven’t I met you before you will met me no problem y don’t worry everything everything going to happen well you know all time we’ve had people asking if you and
I can play a duet or if you and I could do a funk Joo um so I’m I’m I’m happy to be there if you need a low horn for some sort of funk on your new funk album I’m there well all right we mind you know I can sing too you can sing too too good but take the horn with you
I don’t know if anyone wants to hear me you know yeah yeah you could do that little sort of or this this kind of you know this this thing is going guy and I could be your backing singers that’s right yeah good yeah no but but the arrangements are still not um we are now all all about how what to do which songs and how and it will be the br will be separately recorded and arranged so it might happen there are some special guests on pick me pick me yes
Sarah I have a great idea do you like to play on my new album I want to play on your new album please Salan I would love that okay you WN Out friends you’ve heard him promise okay so we’re gonna hold him to it now we can cut this out yes Ben you can all no we’re not cutting that outan people are looking at your website
Dave trumpet from Chicago says your website looks great so there are people looking at your website now that’s fantastic and the and the the logo designed by my wife by fantastic I think it Blow Me Away when she just put in paper with pen I was like wow I wish I could sign my name like that okay well as soon as soon as the
Hangouts finished I’m going on to your website I hope all of you will go onto the website as well um and you’ve got people watching from all over the world a friend of mine from Ecuador Yoni a trombone player from Ecuador he just joined in and said hi Colombia oh he’s from Colombia living in Ecuador I remember from all over the place um
Tim’s also just congratulated you on the website he says it looks great thank you um I wish we could have your surprise your wife and your little girl AA was supposed to join us live but Sky’s computer has just crashed so show us a picture show us a picture of AA please yes it’s going to be that so this is she’s so cute what a sweetheart well they were hoping to join in live but they’ve been watching all the time and um so we send them lots of love and sorry it didn’t work next time yeah
San thank you so much for joining us are you going to play us out there’s all sorts of questions keep writing in your questions I’m going to send this chat to zultan maybe he’ll answer some of the questions on his new website or maybe we’ll just getting back on a hangout oh maybe a part two maybe a part two so s what do you think about a part two we’ll think about a part
Ben do you think your nerves could take apart too H it will work no problem Salan do do it for the for the part two and then you have interest now doing it too okay we will see we will see I’m very expensive so you go and get ready I’m going to say goodbye to our horn hangout guest and
I have a good news for our next horn hangout it will be the 31st of January with German brass they will be here and they will be here live in Berlin so that and probably I don’t know how many of them are going to be taking part as many as possible so I hope that um all of you can join us for that um the details will be on the website so
German brass here live in Berlin for a horn hangout and to play us out we have the two boys the guys of the night um what are you going to play for us LLY well we just said before that it’s going to be an Aldi but everybody will recognize I think I don’t have to introduce this number okay thank you for joining us thank you for playing us out congratulations on your website on your mou thank you so much for inviting me for the horning out and hope will more join the horning out it’s a great idea and
I’m really happy you started something really big thank I’m really happy for thank you for joining us thank you to Ben and Tim for making it possible take it away yeah thanks [Music] oh [Music] y [Music] Lord [Music] h h h h h h yeah [Music] oh [Music] yeah w
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