@shifty said in Fickle playing...:

“Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.” — Dizzy Gillespie

So true. I am still playing on horns that have ages that may challenge my own longevity, such as my 1939 Olds Super Recording (although so far GeorgeB has this one beat!)