Posts made by barliman2001

Many, many years ago (must have been around 1995), the late Hermann Ganter of Munich made me a cornet and gve it to me, suitably engraved, as a birthday present.
Some years later, I was in financial straits and sold that cornet on to a fellow cornet player, an English (?) lady called Alison Something then playing in the Munich brass band.
Shortly afterwards, I had to relocate and lost all contact to the band, the lady and the cornet.
Now, I would dearly love to get that cornet back somehow, but the band disbanded and reformed and there are no records of contact details of the players...
Yellow brass lacquered shepherd's crook cornet, engraved with HERMANN GANTER and a German language birthday message mentioning my name. No serial number.
If you know anything about the whereabouts of that cornet, please contact me!

I can confirm that that iceberg is huge, and in pristine condition. Steve Smith has been hoarding treasures for years... now it is for you all to say "Open Sesame" and get at the treasure...

@Dr-GO Needs to be a slide instrument... but if you've once mastered the slide positions on a normal trombone, it's easy (relative distances as regards mouthpiece/bell rim remain roughly the same). It's tougher on the tenor trombone due to the vastly different mouthpiece size. But even that can be mastered with enough incentive: Some years ago I inherited a trombone from a dear departed friend... thirteen years after his passing, his daughter called me and told me they had opened up her father's music room for the first time, and found hand-written labels who was to inherit what... and his pride and joy went to me (B&H Sovereign big bell trombone)... and of course I was in honour bound to learn. First piece I played was Amazing Grace at his graveside... been using it for a number of gigs since.

@SSmith1226 I know...

@SSmith1226 I seem to remember that horn...

@administrator
Whoa!
You should try a different approach - mine.
Got my Courtois flugelhorn as a factory surplus - free.
Inherited

• my B&H Sovereign trombone
• my Selmer G picc

found my Garreis trombone in an ntique shop for a hundred quid
found my latest cornet (Besson Bb/A) in a pawn shop, for less than $100...

Got this nice and wonderfully decorated Conn International off e-bay at € 47...

and was given this nice Arnold & Sons pocket trumpet - the ideal hospital trumpet! free, in exchange for a review...

and finally exchanged a badly dented and patched UMI Benge 7 for this Olds Recording...

Cold is of no importance when transporting instruments - only when playing...
I remember one Christmas gig in Austria, with temperatures nicely below zero for several weeks... and then we were supposed to play a Christmas service in a church that rarely if ever is used (secondary Catholic church lent to Protestants on occasion). When we arrived through about one foot of snow, the caretaker informed us that he "had switched the heating on ten minutes ago".... in a frozen-through Baroque church!!

We were seven - two trumpets, one flugelhorn, one French horn, one baritone, one trombone and a 5/4 Kaiser tuba... when tuning at the beginning, everything was fine. But with having to wait in between pieces for the service to continue... intonation went haywire, and we ended up being more or less halt a tone apart...
horrible... and in the final piece, the rotary valves of the tuba and the french horn suddenly froze... luckily, we were seated near the door and were able to escape with our lives before the service ended...

@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...