Posts made by Shepherds_Crook

I have a basic Peacemaker Torpedo case. I am sure there is no more protective case available. The only thing I will note is that you have to grab the bell of your horn and pull it out of the case, which tightly cradles your precious instrument. I actually indented the large 5.5” bell on my custom Adams A4 LT-S with my fingers by grabbing the flare instead of the bell bead wire. When I ordered that bespoked axe, I wanted my design or fingerprint on it, but leaving finger marks in the bell was not what I had in mind. I consider this operator error, certainly not Torpedo’s problem, but just wanted to note that you need to be thoughtful grabbing a horn with a wide or thin bell. Lesson learned.

Hi Ray, would be nice to see a few pictures. There are so many possibilities with your description.

@Dr-GO I don’t mind ... love the 5MM. Since that first experience, as captured in the video, I have purchased more bodies and during last year’s Harrelson Garagd Sale I picked up a bunch of throats. One of them turned out to be significantly better for me than the Yamaha 14B GP or the duplicate that was 1 part of my original 5MM kit. I would have never known that a different throat would give me such a big gain in playing without the 5MM system. I’m sure I will try some other bodies, but this product seems to have ended my life-long mouthpiece safari! Time will tell ...

Hello all! Formerly ‘cyber_shake’ on TM (and still that on TH), going to use ‘Shepherds_Crook’ here.

@Dr-GO I not really ‘old’ yet ... I think!