Posts made by barliman2001

Then it's "welcome back, old friend!"

@djeffers78 Welcome! I've got a feeling I know your nickname from the old TM days...

@grune said in Opinions on Valve Oils?:

@barliman2001
Age would not alter the elements, thus the sulphur would be present in old and new oil. Again, sulphur is highly corrosive to brass and toxic to humans. The presence of sulphur should be noted on the label.

As far as I know, any petroleum distillate contains a small amount of sulphur because this is a natural ingredient of crude oil.

Rowuk Hath Spoken.

Oils, when kept in the dark - as the paper box usually tells us - don't age for several years, that's why. If you keep them in the light - such as shop shelving for too long, they can suffer from exposure.

Until a very few years back, Bach did sell up to five different spring tensions (depending on model).

All valve oils can age, specially under the influence of light, and will then change their colour. THIS IS A SIGN THAT THIS OIL SHOULD NOT BE USED ANYMORE, according to trumpet makers Hermann Ganter (RIP) and Gerd Dowids. Your picture clearly shows a bottle of T3 that has aged for several years. Originally, it is crystal clear and without colour, as shown by this picture:
https://www.thomann.de/de/la_tromba_ag_t3_valve_oil_ultra_thin.htm

"Nurse, did you take blood from the guy in 243?" -
"Yes, Doctor, but I only got about ten pints. He's sleeping peacefully now."

"If music be the food of love, play on."
Twelfth Night

I'm just now enjoying the pleasure of being assistant deputy helper at the Gutenstein Master Classes (www.meisterklassen-gutenstein.com - my wife is Vice President of the show), and that entails a lot of ferrying people around: from Vienna to Gutenstein Village and back, fro and to the airport, shuttling people from their accommodation in the village to the rehearsal rooms and to the concert hall and so forth. Every master class lasts a week.
Today, I had the fun of ferrying three viola players back to Vienna. You should think that for informal master classes, you would have a small case, perhaps a suit hanger for concert dress and the instrument case. Not this lot. Every single one came with a big case, a small case, a backpack, two bags of groceries (for f...'s sake, it's an all-inclusive thing, with all meals included), the viola case (one even had two violas!)...handbags... little paper bags of souvenirs... I could not resist asking why they had that much luggage. I got a classic viola answer:
"Well, it might perhaps be snowing by the end of the week."
In Austria in July!!!

"Trumpet playing is singing, just without a sore throat."
Maurice André

More or less. It's less a comparator than an indicator.

Ever looked up the word "trumpery" in a dictionary?

Locked. Not loaded.

@Dale-Proctor said in Phony players:

@BigDub said in Phony players:

On the show, Hogan’s Heroes, Colonel Klink Would occasionally play the violin, much to the discomfort of those who happened to be in the same room.
He looked rather convincing, but if you looked closely, there weren’t even any strings on the instrument!

Interesting factoid - Werner Klemperer’s father was Otto Klemperer, the famous orchestral conductor.

Even more interesting - quite a number of the actors in that show were either of Jewish descent or had lost family and friends due to Nazi terror.

For quality at really cheap prices, there are the A&S (Arnold &Sons) copies of Bach mouthpieces, sometimes marketed under the Stoelzel brand. They come at around $12 each, and are really good.

That set is just a bad copy of the Stomvi mouthpiece system...

@Kehaulani Good for you. But now keep up the good work, or she'll fall back into it worse than before.

@Seth-of-Lagos This type of peach is called a "vineyard peach" here in Austria, and is a much sought-after commodity.

@Kehaulani I'm going on the principle that he has been consistent in all his postings so far.