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All of my three community bands cancelled the season TODAY because of COVID-19 virus fears. I'll miss the Monday and Friday bands. Wednesday, not so much.

@Tobylou8 You wore out the cassette, I wore out the LP.

I've never had much luck with penetrating oils for this. The fit between the tubes is too tight and the corrosion can be too far away from the point where the penetrating oil is applied.

I had one that was really stuck one time where I filled the slide with crushed dry ice. (I had some in the shop for a different kind of thing related to my day job.) I let it sit for a while and then hit the outside of the tube with a heat gun, of the type used for a number of things in construction. (Sort of like a very high temperature hair dryer.) That, combined with wiggling, tapping, and flexing, finally got it loose.

You need to be very careful with both the dry ice and the heat gun, since one is extremely cold and the other extremely hot.

ROWUK in the house....

@kehaulani

"It is important to point out just how hard the Goodman musicians worked in those days. At the Paramount, the band played five shows a day (later years it became seven or eight), seven days a week. Simultaneously, it was working at the Hotel Pennsylvania from 7 pm to 1:30 am every night but Sunday.... Rehearsals for the Tuesday night Camel Caravan broadcast took place after the gig on Thursday nights until 4am." (From "Trumpet Blues.")

That was early in his career, when he was with Benny Goodman. I'm sure he slowed down later on. And he definitely liked drinking, womanizing, and gambling.

@grune Try a luggage and shoe repair shop. They exist in most cities. A local shop like that repaired one of my older Bach cases.

@administrator said in Which trumpet to buy?:

-- Used Bach 190 (lightly used) (probably) You can try before you buy and probably save some money over the new price.

OK, so to bring a musical twist to this thread....

As one of the commenters said on YouTube.... "I hope nobody else anywhere in the world needed a contrabass trombone that day...

@kehaulani Just joking around, dude.

Everclear is 75.5% FWIW. I was using it as hand sanitizer when the stores were all sold out.

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.

@BigDub spackling

Going from memory, the first keyed bugles appeared around 1800, the first rotary valves in the 1820s, and the first piston valves in the 1830s, so the date of 1813 is right on the money. The Haydn trumpet concerto was written in 1796 and was first performed on a keyed trumpet not entirely unlike this bugle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Concerto_(Haydn)

I have one friend who loves to tinker with mouthpieces but, of course, he doesn't have a machine lathe or the right tools to do a professional job. He always buys a certain type of older mouthpiece whenever he can find one. (Always the same basic model.) Then he chucks them up in a big drill, clamps it down to the workbench, and then goes after it with drill bits to open up the throat a little and various grades of emery cloth to change the rim or whatever.

I do not recommend this. Among other things, he winds up taking off most of the silver plating leaving a raw brass mouthpiece. He will get one that he thinks is perfect for a while, but after a few weeks he's on to a new experiment. If he ever did find the perfect configuration, he could never replicate it.

Just buy used mouthpieces online and try different ones. It's fairly cheap that way and if you ever find the perfect one, you can buy more.

@BigDub From what I have read about PP, the ability to identify a pitch is completely unrelated to the ability to produce a particular note upon demand. Yes, a person with PP needs to be taught that "A" = 440 Hz (or whatever convention is used in the culture in question). But once they learn that convention, they can apparently always identify it.

@Vulgano-Brother That's how he got the (real) scar across his face. He got kicked or kneed in the face while performing at CBGB.

@j-jericho The text says Eb.

@jessie Can you post a very short video to help us understand the problem better? It sounds weird, but we will try to help.

Just in case any of our overseas colleagues missed it.....

@administrator The ending was... "not with a bang, but with a whimper." It could have been worse. But with after such a major build-up, it was unsatisfying. It certainly won't go down in the annals of great series finales like "MASH", or "Six Feet Under", or "Newhart."