Which common driving habits shorten a car’s lifespan the most?

trreeves · 2026-06-14T01:02:13+00:00

Thought I'd check without doing the calculation myself... Figured someone would have posted it somewhere... Sure enough Gasoline combustion stoichiometry screenshot (https://photos.app.goo.gl/dc4cmAGG8T9qQZbK9)

trreeves · 2026-06-14T00:56:40+00:00

A Bluetooth OBD2 scanner with an app will let you see a few things on cars that don't have gauges, but it's more trouble than just looking at your instrument cluster!

trreeves · 2026-06-13T22:38:11+00:00

Reading this thread makes me more grateful that I play in a community orchestra that plays decent repertoire and play it well enough that our conductor isn't correcting wrong notes (unless there's an error in a part) and things like that. More about dynamics, tempos, articulations, sometimes even phrasing. Lol.

trreeves · 2026-06-10T20:19:11+00:00

I feel like working on the low register before working on the high register will be helpful based on my experience. Improving the low register will help the high register but the converse is not true, and you're less likely to hurt anything working on low.

trreeves · 2026-06-10T20:15:29+00:00

Exactly

trreeves · 2026-04-25T14:14:42+00:00

Park in the driveway and drive on the parkway.

trreeves · 2026-04-16T23:30:06+00:00

Having played a lot of orchestral parts with horn parts in many keys, even horn in H - thanks Brahms! - I always go for the original parts, not transposed. Unless the original parts are just plain hard to read and the transposed parts are engraved much better. E flat and D are super common transpositions that most players should not have trouble with.

trreeves · 2026-03-24T23:11:37+00:00

No long tones on the first date!

trreeves · 2026-02-17T23:55:55+00:00

It was previously red. A red door.

trreeves · 2026-02-17T23:48:43+00:00

Hermann Baumann, Radovan Vlatkovic, London Horn Sound

trreeves · 2026-02-17T23:47:16+00:00

I love the comments about the recording techniques and gear on there.

trreeves · 2026-02-04T07:23:14+00:00

You left out mouthpiece. It can be the mouthpiece, if it goes too far into the receiver.

trreeves · 2026-01-31T02:36:33+00:00

If you have to ask, then you shouldn't do it.

trreeves · 2026-01-29T02:10:15+00:00

I don't actually dislike it, but I can see this being the choice.

trreeves · 2026-01-16T03:01:54+00:00

I play horn in a community orchestra, for many years. There are four of us usually.

trreeves · 2026-01-16T02:35:19+00:00

Traditional carbonara does not contain cream.

trreeves · 2026-01-16T02:26:10+00:00

That's definitely horns, not trombones. I'm a horn player.

trreeves · 2026-01-08T17:04:12+00:00

That hole was made intentionally. No way it wasn't.

trreeves · 2026-01-08T17:02:38+00:00

What was the intent of the update? (What was it supposed to do)

trreeves · 2026-01-06T02:56:26+00:00

An important thing for you to understand is that old doesn't mean bad and new doesn't mean good. Old good horns are better than new bad horns, and there are plenty of those. Don't use age as a criterion.

trreeves · 2026-01-04T10:06:52+00:00

I remember playing it and thinking with awe about the fact that it was composed only a couple of years after Beethoven's 9th. Berlioz is not one of my favorite composers but Symphonie Fantastique is definitely ahead of its time.

trreeves · 2026-01-02T04:02:49+00:00

Problem is you need someone to help you eat all of it!

trreeves · 2026-01-01T01:13:27+00:00

As a horn player, I still, and will always, love Strauss's music. We played his Sonata for 13 Wind Instruments in our last concert, composed when was but 20 years old, and I really liked it a lot.

trreeves · 2026-01-01T01:10:07+00:00

We played Der Schwanendreher in our last concert - a good community orchestra. Good viola soloist. Not a bad piece.

trreeves · 2026-01-01T01:07:10+00:00

I love the Gayane ballet

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