Showing emotion with a trumpet

[ScottTaulbee]

The other night I was playing a trumpet I was working on in one end of the house, and my wife was at the other end of the house trying to get our grandson to sleep.  I was only soft calling....very very soft calling...trying to call as quiet and soft as I possibly could.  After a couple of minutes, my wife came storming down the hall of the house mad as could be at my calling on a turkey call while she was trying to get the grandson to sleep.  The soft calling sound from that trumpet penetrated two closed doors and five rooms in between...and I was being quiet. Granted, there is absolutely nothing wrong with my wife's hearing, but I was shocked she was hearing me from one end of the house to the other.  My wife wasn't having any of my excuse that I was trying to be quiet. She complained she could hear me plainly....and I was not quiet. All I can say is a trumpet yelper sound carries at a distance a lot better than the human ear can comprehend.

I've had the same thing happen to me, working on doing soft stuff and tree yelps with a trumpet in our attached garage, and my wife would be in the living room of our house with the kids getting them settled down for bed, 3 rooms, with 2 closed doors between us and she came out hollering mad that I was getting the kids wound up and I had the bell end cupped with both hands and my hands closed off. Barely audible to me type stuff.


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[GregGwaltney]

I will say that the best responses I have had with my trumpet is super soft stuff, the softest/quietest I can play it. I also have found that a few clucks with maybe a pleading yelp or two has worked best. I do play 1-handed 99% of the time and have found it pretty easy to get the soft stuff this way. There is always the exception, and I have called in birds cutting loudly and yelping aggressively on a trumpet too. A few days ago I was calling softly/sparsely on the trumpet when I heard a hen yelping, she was only 40-50 yards away and I could barely hear her. She was only letting out 2-3 yelps at a time, super soft, no clucks, and my immediate thought was how similar she sounded to a trumpet. This was public land that hens are typically very silent on so it was cool to listen/watch her.

[DocHolliday]

At 80 steps all he'll hear from me is the "snick" as my safety is moved.

I jest, but you blew his eardrums. At that distance a single cluck or whine or "pip" is all he gets, if that.

[outdoorguy3]

The other night I was playing a trumpet I was working on in one end of the house, and my wife was at the other end of the house trying to get our grandson to sleep.  I was only soft calling....very very soft calling...trying to call as quiet and soft as I possibly could.  After a couple of minutes, my wife came storming down the hall of the house mad as could be at my calling on a turkey call while she was trying to get the grandson to sleep.  The soft calling sound from that trumpet penetrated two closed doors and five rooms in between...and I was being quiet. Granted, there is absolutely nothing wrong with my wife's hearing, but I was shocked she was hearing me from one end of the house to the other.  My wife wasn't having any of my excuse that I was trying to be quiet. She complained she could hear me plainly....and I was not quiet. All I can say is a trumpet yelper sound carries at a distance a lot better than the human ear can comprehend.

Great information, and something to always keep in mind!  Thank you sir!

Ralph

[Brillo]

Thanks for the input and observations everyone.  I will be amending my approach.