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JohnL

I would be kind of scared to have laskey mouthpieces made by eastman, the store i work at is a big eastman dealer and their mouthpieces are straight trash. The plating is so thin it flakes off after a year or two and i hate how they play play against other brands like bach or even fax. Hopefully th...

JohnL

Conrad Janis, longtime character actor most remembered for playing Mindy's father on Mork and Mindy.

JohnL

You can take them into situations where you'd be afraid something bad would happen to a slide trombone. Trombones are very vulnerable instruments; the "working part" is out there in front of you, exposed to all kinds of misadventures. The working parts of a Flugabone are far less vulnerable, being p...

JohnL

JohnL, I believe your characterization of the titles and subtitles of Nathaniel Davis' trombone glissando pieces is not quite accurate, but, of course, you are entitled to your opinion and interpretation. I would be afraid that members of the audience would conflate the Davis's trombone family with...

JohnL

JohnL, you seem to have come to a different conclusions about Davis’ pieces than Doug Yeo. Could you explain your reasons? Just look at the titles and subtitles... "Oh Slip it Man"; "A Trombone Novelty" "Mr. Trombonology; "A Characteristic Trombone Smear" and "The Son of 'Oh Slip it Man'" "Miss Tro...

JohnL

Finetales wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:05 pm
If you ever have to ask this question, the answer is always "keep going".

I think you mean "D*mn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"

JohnL

I'm afraid the value (or lack thereof) of "trombone novelty" pieces is a topic that's never going to see a consensus opinion. They're a staple of the community band concert in the park, but not really fodder for the serious musician. Looking through the public domain works that are available on band...

JohnL

harrisonreed wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 05, 2020 5:41 pm
Yamaha seems to lose its goodness if keep in a really hot or really cold car.

Not sure about cold, but heat certainly causes problems.

JohnL

Thrawn22 wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 05, 2020 2:14 am
Sorta silly having a thayer valve while the plug in has a standard valve.

The idea is that you only have the slot-in valve installed when you really need it (depending on the literature one is playing, that may not be very often). The rest of the time, you're playing a single with a Thayer.

JohnL

It's not just spit. When we play, we exhale droplets of moisture, which contain various minerals. Some of those droplets end up staying in the horn. When the water from those droplets evaporates, it leaves behind the minerals. There's water vapor in the air we exhale, too, but that's different from ...

JohnL

This 'hole' - and there seems to be another one above on the same line - looks to me like a section of the soldered seam of the tube that has come apart slightly. I wouldn't be worried too much about this. If it were a seam opening up, the crack would follow the seam. The lower crack in particular ...

JohnL

Your best bet for that mellophone is probably to get a donor valve block (probably any student trumpet will be fine) and just work with the bell you have. If you're lucky, you might actually end up with a better set of valves than when it was new. Mellos were generally built to student instrument s...

JohnL

So i had that all taken care of, but i’m curious as to how someone would make a whole new valve. Here's some basic info from Yamaha: https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/trumpet/manufacturing/manufacturing002.html https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/trumpet/manufacturin...

JohnL

My worst nightmare. I guess it wasn’t meant to be If you really want something, your bidding should be based on what you're willing and able to pay and/or what you think the instrument is worth, not on what you think it will sell for. That way, if you do get outbid, you at least have the satisfacti...

JohnL

Large bore tenor. O-15 Operas were solid nickel silver, not nickel plated. The closest catalog I have is 1966; it lists the bore as .554".

JohnL

You know, I would not be surprised to hear that Mike Corrigan has already done this to a few horns. It just seems like something that would fit the aesthetic of some of his customers.

JohnL

Back to the original thread - yeah, I checked out the link. They carry a few trombones, all small bores. They have several Jupiters (mostly valve bones,for some reason), a Yam YSL-354, and a King 2B. The first few listings under "trombones" were two sousaphones and two alto horns. ????? Specificati...

JohnL

Honestly, the only "tweener" horns that have ever been able to gain much traction are the Kings. On any given day, there's usually a few on eBay (right now I see five, including one misidentified as a 4BF). TR159's are significantly less common; some days there might be one or two listed, but other ...

JohnL

Holton has several "tweener" options. I owned a 156 in the 1980s that had a 547/562 slide. Straight horn. Definitely a tenor with unbelievable power. The 159 (which I'm looking to buy) also has a 547/562, but I think tends to the bass side, possibly with the bigger throated bell used on the 183, no...

JohnL

Can AirPlay send the video to another iPhone/iPad? I've only seen it send video to AppleTV or similar device.

JohnL

There is considerable lag as it goes through the wifi to the server and back to the other phone. That's because Presence has to go all the way out their servers; a good thing if you want to be able to watch live-ish video from you house when you're away from home (and you wouldn't notice a little l...

JohnL

Posaunus wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 23, 2020 11:58 pm
What's a 645F?

A 165F played by someone with clumsy fingers.

JohnL

It's possible to be too old...

An original Williams 6 in good condition will set you back a serious chunk of change ($3,000 US, maybe more). One of Earl's pre-WWII horns with similar specs? Not so much.

JohnL

sacfxdx wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 23, 2020 12:05 pm
Ask your boss if it is ok. He may give you a reduced rate if it’s not totally free.

JohnL

Why is it an issue for you that he didn't get his full asking price? An issue? No, just a point of curiosity. This trombone looks to have been made not long after the dissolution of the Earl Williams/Spike Wallace partnership; horns from that period usually don't command the same kind of price as t...

JohnL

DougHulme wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:56 pm
I see this guy sold his horn so he was right and the critics were wrong.

Ah, but how much did it sell for? I doubt if it was the $4,000+ that was being asked.

JohnL

I've played a modified 73H that was really quite awful, sloppy work, nothing aligned, bad solders. The question then becomes whether the sloppy work was done by Larry Minick or by someone else. I'm inclined to think that someone else worked on it after the fact. Here's a brief write-up about him: h...

JohnL

Burgerbob wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 20, 2020 2:27 pm
Or just start a video with the camera app and watch it afterwards.

I've tried that in similar situations and got great videos of everything but what I really wanted to see. It's much easier when you can see what the camera sees in real time.

JohnL

slipperyjoe wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:49 am
How about Skype or something similar from old iPhone to new (or iPad) via wifi?

I think the problem is the lack of a wifi signal at one end of the house. Some sort of peer-to-peer connection is in order.

JohnL

Bonearzt wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 20, 2020 10:16 am
OR just spend $200 and get a Getzen slide trumpet.

Where's the fun in that?

JohnL

One thing he's going to find difficult is that he appears to want to use the trombone slide with its crook. That will make it much harder to make a 7 position slide and still have a bell section. If he downsizes the crook (and braces) he can made the slide an inch or so longer which gives him some ...

JohnL

I clicked on the eBay link and basically you don't exist. Item had been removed and your feedback was not available. ? Was that the original listing or the relist? I'm looking at the original listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/254611720832 I can see the seller's feedback (which is quite good - 260 p...

JohnL

Do you have a regular laptop computer of some sort?

You could try installing EpocCam on the old iPhone and the laptop, then hotspot your newer iPhone and use it as a bridge to connect the old iPhone to the laptop.

JohnL

I suppose it all depends on what sort of shed we're talking about. I mean, this is a shed:

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JohnL

I'll have to convince my mom to let me go then and try it. I heard good things about the A20, and if I can lowball this and get it for like $70, that's a really good deal. Only if it's in decent shape. A trombone that's beyond economical repair is never a good deal. Beyond the slide, look for signs...

JohnL

Looks like an Olds A-20. The "Lions" marking is just on the case.

JohnL

Years ago, John Sandhagen recommended using bronze wool to clean up slide stockings. You can find it at some woodworking stores.

JohnL

Bb/F/Gb/D independent. Then you'll just have to condition yourself to "forget" the Gb options when teaching a student with a dependent horn. It's a whole lot easier that trying to teach the Gb options when you've never used them yourself.

JohnL

That guy was on the old forum. He would never shut up about how great the G attachment was. And always had pictures of girls in bikinis with his trombones. I think that was Anthony Cecena. He might be here under a different name. If I recall correctly he left this area (Metro Boston) and moved to H...

JohnL

SwissTbone wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 06, 2020 9:55 am
Don't know how it is in the US. But doing that here in Switzerland would be absolutely illegal. I don't say it isn't done though...

They aren't allowed to look at a prospective employee's public posts?

JohnL

His trombone choir stuff is wicked hard. And yet it's not hard for sake of being hard (and we've all seen that sort of stuff before). He wrote what he wanted to hear - with little to no mercy, admittedly, but it wasn't about making it hard, it was about giving trombonist the chance to play the kind...

JohnL

...I have no doubt that the Austin Symphony will long remember the day they hired Brenda Sansig Salas! They will absolutely remember it... I suppose someone should ask if she had been posting stuff of this sort before they hired her. If so, someone didn't just drop the ball, they let it bounce into...

JohnL

For you guys with the MIA pipes maybe it has something to do with them leaving from Los Angeles? They could be super impacted... would explain why the mouthpieces I sent Chris are taking so long. It usually takes about 2-4 weeks to send internationally. Los Angeles is still in pretty bad spot, viru...

JohnL

That's a long pull to manage with a thumb lever. You'd have to sacrifice leverage to get enough travel, which means the slide would have to move with very little resistance. AFAIK, Thein is the only company that makes something along those lines: https://thein-blechblasinstrumente.de/07-26-bassposau...

JohnL

I think one reason 10.5” bells get a bad rap is that so many of the extant examples are 50B3L’s. How much of the perceived issue is just “Bach being Bach” (particularly the standard rotor valve set) and how much is actually the big flare?

JohnL

Basbasun wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:19 am

JohnL wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:38 pm
Was Amati ever in Markneukirchen? I thought they were always in Kraslice.
You are right John, my wrong. Svenne

They're less than 20 km apart; same region but a different country...

JohnL

Posaunus wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:53 pm
TAKE...THE...SLIDE...TO...A...GOOD...TECH!

...otherwise your next question is going to be "I have plating loss on one stocking; what should I do?"

JohnL

A very similar current production horn from India: https://www.ebay.com/itm/TROMBONE-3-VALVES-PURE-BRASS-MADE-IN-BRASS-POLISH-CUSHION-CASE-BOX-FREE-SHIP/183551038089 The short model valve 'bones on the Amati website look like they have standard length bell sections, but earlier production looks to h...

JohnL

What's with that spit valve? I'm sure Earl didn't do that. Looks to be in good shape but the price is ridiculous. That's a standard water key for that era of Williams, but some bent it back on itself. Those early Williams trombones usually don't command the same kind of money as the later "number" ...

JohnL

Would it make economic sense to buy the other horn, and have a tech swap the inner tubes? I really like the ‘49 horn and would like to improve it. How's the action on the current slide? No need to go buying another slide if the one you have works well, even if it does have some chrome wear. If your...

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