tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356810570417598585.post6336294051445541122..comments2024-03-01T07:36:47.558-08:00Comments on Higgins unHinged (www.ralphhiggins.com): This Old HornUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356810570417598585.post-71304875036439158422014-03-04T18:56:47.616-08:002014-03-04T18:56:47.616-08:00Thanks, but you didn't do too badly blowing a ...Thanks, but you didn't do too badly blowing a trumpet yourself. Cambodia? Is the horn "bi-lingual?" Ralph Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07305894333304660639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356810570417598585.post-63686213167771646352014-03-04T16:58:15.042-08:002014-03-04T16:58:15.042-08:00And a mighty fine player you were my friend. I ha...And a mighty fine player you were my friend. I had the opportunity to hear you play that long-hair stuff and jazz. You had great tone and imagination with that horn. Good news, "If you like your horn, You can keep your horn". I sent mine to the Mission field in Cambodia.<br />Celsius Country Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356810570417598585.post-46208407651878097342014-03-03T14:36:54.174-08:002014-03-03T14:36:54.174-08:00The second photo was me too, but it's a bad co...The second photo was me too, but it's a bad copy and I don't know what it was taken for. Thanks for the compliment, Jimmy. It's interesting that Orrin Blattner, our band teacher, got me started playing professionally and he and I worked a lot of gigs together through the years. He was a great guy and a real loss to me when he died.<br />Hey, Jim, that's not bad to play "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by ear with no instructions. You should have kept it up. It's not too late.Ralph Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07305894333304660639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356810570417598585.post-67788293404195477982014-03-03T12:51:11.340-08:002014-03-03T12:51:11.340-08:00You and Sacha-mo are the best horn players I have ...You and Sacha-mo are the best horn players I have ever heard. Is the second photo you also? If so you look like you just stepped out of the Lawrence Welk band. I wanted to learn to play the Sax at Los Gatos High School but Blatner just handed me a sax and stuck me in a room. He never taught me anything. He was too obsessed with Ralph Higgins. I did learn how to play "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by ear. The good ole days.<br />Your pal,<br />Jimmy LoarAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com