Posts made by barliman2001

@Dr-GO Red wine cork for rose brass, white wine cork for silver plated instruments... chips of plastic champagne corks for Chinese-made TSOs...

Thomann are offering different sizes of waterkey corks as well as different thicknesses of cork sheet to cut your corks out of.
https://www.thomann.co.uk/search_dir.html?__cTr=7bedffb2-1e7f-45de-be1e-2790c2f1c4c7&shp=eyJjb3VudHJ5IjoiZ2IiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6NCwibGFuZ3VhZ2UiOjJ9&reload=1&sw=cork&smcs=a935ee_13621

As your question is resolved, I will close this thread.

@Trumpetb In principle, you are perfectly right. But in this case, the insrument in question is a relatively modern, almost new instrument of Chinese mass production... The main question here is, whether it is worth while going to any length to achieve this for ths kind of instrument...

@Gendreauj
Three questions:

1. For which instrument(s) do you want these caps? Threads on these caps can be wildly different.
2. Do you want normal or heavy caps?
3. If it is just optics - why not just buy a normal spare set and have them galvanically coppered?

Welcome, and congratulations for having found your way here!

@administrator Probably just bots snding the same stuff over and over again... I've managed to ban those that I became aware of...

Thomann had a very excellent "warm-up mute" which was equally silent in all registers. It's discontinued now, but they might have some new old stock...! Here is my Olds Recording with a Brand Turbo mouthpiece and that selfsame mute (which I even used in hospital!)

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When the only beaver-gnawed tree falls onto the only vehicle parked there... totalled...

The flood has receded, and everything that was inundated in our garden is now dring in the sun...

@administrator It is quite tasty - I've been there and tried it. But you have to beware of two Icelandic specials. The first is avoidable - grilled ewe's head. But the second comes along treacherously: In the supermarket shelves, it looks like smoked salmon. And if you buy it under this impression, you are in for a shock as soon as you open it. The smell can be described as cigarette smoke x train station bathroom...
it is in fact smoked fermented shark. STAY CLEAR!

@Trumpetb Dreams and their outcomes can be quite different... you mentioned Columbus. His dream was to reach India by going westward. He never got there - some fat ass unknown continent got in the way, but he never grasped that idea during his lifetime. The results of his dream were definitely not what he originally wanted...

@administrator You have to take what is raining down on you...

@SSmith1226 Nicely done, Steve!

@administrator We would be happy to donate some to Portugal - they are fighting wildfires there...

The garden is now fully inundated, and all the stuff we had stored underneath the house has gone aswim - firewood, garden furniture, some empty gas cylinders from the caravan, a full suite of upholstery and a set of antique massive oak furniture inherited from my grandparents... fortunately, everything is still inside the garden, not all over the place like some of the neighbours' stuff... Our garden now looks like this...

@administrator It is still raining heavily - it receded a bit over night, but now it is rising again...

For those who have not seen my post about our flooding in Austria yet (water, water everywhere), here is a pic taken this afternoon...

Almost the whole of Austria is a disaster zone just now, with continuous torrential rain over the last week... many communities are flooded, and the first deaths have occurred. Luckily, our house is built on stilts so that we can still hope to escape relatively unscathed; but at this moment, our garden is almost three feet under water.
Luckily, we were able to save about three weeks' worth of firewood - our only heating source! - all the garden appliances are now in the house, and we have filled every container with water, and the larder is full of dry and canned foods, and over the last weeks, we preserved many hundreds of jars of our home-grown fruit (cherries, apples, pears, peaches, apricot, grapes, plums and quince) which is good because our community is now isolated from outside. Fire service and army are helping or evacuating those that are not so fortunate... so if any appeals for help reaches you, be so good as to donate. Many people have already lost everything; and in many areas of Austria, you can't get flood insurance.

Our street

Our and the neighbour's garden

"Dad, where can I do my number twos now?"