It is sobering that in this high-tech world where even your washing machine is computerized, an unknown event for one person can take down an entire community that evolved over a lengthy period of time.

@administrator You still have the problem of 00:00 hours.

@j-jericho Before daylight savings time, people just adopted a "summer schedule" or "double summer schedule." In the former, they scheduled everything an hour earlier. In the latter, they scheduled everything hours earlier. Leave the clocks alone. Just change the schedule.

@j-jericho When I worked for one of the railroads, nothing ever happened at either noon or midnight. Everything happened at either 11:59 or 12:01 just to avoid confusion of the whole 12:00 am/pm thing.

I have a bunch of BERP and UltraPure and Monster Oil sitting around plus a few others. I even have some Hetman left, so it's not anything urgent. Hetman just seems to work well on my eclectic herd of horns. Monster Oil also works well, but it is more expensive since the bottles are only about half the size of Hetman. It's no big deal. I just wondered of others have seen the same thing.

Most of the major online music stores have been out of stock of Hetman valve oils. It has been that way for quite a while. There are smaller vendors on Amazon offering Hetman, but some of the prices are $15 to $25(!) per bottle. Anybody know what's going on?

The spam from Spain is plainly just a pain.

There. That's better.

The spam from Spain is mainly a big fat pain.

Hard to tell from just the one photo, but it sounds like a pretty good fake. But a fake nonetheless.

Maybe it's a test to help keep out the riff-raff. Kind of like the soup nazi. If you walk in the door and say: "I like your trumpet parking sign" then NO HORNS FOR YOU. But if you say: "Hey, how come your sign shows a cornet but says only trumpet players allowed?", then you have passed the first test and might be deemed worthy to try one of the Bachs. Five additional rounds of empirical testing are required to be allowed to touch the Monettes.

Many years ago, I got to meet Bill Chase before one of their concerts, along with a group of other people. As part of the Q&A somebody asked him what horns they used. As I recall, the answer was: 1 Schilke (for Bill), 1 Connstellation, 1 Benge, and one I don't remember. Maybe a Committee or a Selmer something or other. In any event, that trumpet-centric group had 4 top-notch players that all used different horns. There isn't one right answer.