I've been playing a Dolce for a couple years, after 5-ish years of playing a differently stamped Jinbao compensating horn. Both are / were good bang for the buck. I wish I could have had either of...
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I've been playing a Dolce for a couple years, after 5-ish years of playing a differently stamped Jinbao compensating horn. Both are / were good bang for the buck. I wish I could have had either of...
A 3-valve compensator (at least in the baritone) runs into another problem -- they can't make the compensating tubing short enough, and combinations with the 3rd valve are flat rather than sharp. ...
I guess I was lucky to get mine done when I die :-O
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When did they quit? They did my Conn's valves, and that was just a couple years ago.
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I put my 1923 Conn 86I in for a complete rehab job, including replating the valves, a couple years ago. It was an expensive proposition ($1800), and I probably won't recover that cost if I ever sell...
This forum needs a *like* button.
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Stupid question -- are the threads on all euphoniums identically pitched, or does the manufacturer have to make different HBCs for different brands?
My 1923 4-front-valve non-comp Conn 86I.
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In retrospect, I do wish I had started cello my soph year in HS, rather than starting double bass my senior year, just so I could get some orchestra experience. Cello and euph? Good pairing, I...
He sells Jinbao instruments. I bought my baritone from him 5-ish years ago; totally positive experience.
It would be an adventure, that's for sure!
Across the Trans-Sib? Cool beans. I'll come with you; you'll need a Russian interpreter :D
Good luck getting that train across the Pacific :-O :D
Here are some silly lyrics I wrote to an old country song, expressing my reaction to the whole COVID quarantine issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBciDjimpG4
Dean will have to say for sure, but you're pro'ly right. I've met Harold Schonberg (official spelling), and I know a little of his career, which, I believe, did not include teaching and/or writing...
I saw it at a USAF theater, Misawa, Japan. At the time, my favorite character was the old lady :D
Not as easy on a euph as it would have been on a 'bone :D
Smooth as hot honey! And perfect accomp track. I'd have to take it down a notch or three.
I played that on accordion a few years back in a homecoming service at the church where my parents are buried.
We have cats. Zazu the torty leaves the room, but she's not panicked; it's like she remembered something else that she had to do. Fiona the odd-eyed white is deaf; she couldn't care less.
As a linguist / polyglot, I have a problem with using the syllables "ta" and "da" as articulation models. Physiologically, they are the same, except that "da" adds vibration from the vocal cords,...
I'm not going to be much help. I had a major underbite until I was in my mid-20s, but then I had complete orthodontic work and a mandible reduction while I was in the USAF. Unfortunately, that...
Go right to the boss -- email Adam Frey and ask him about local rentals.
I would have used the word "smart".
I'll leave that for others to answer; others who fly frequently with their horns can tell you better than I can. I'm less than 200 miles away; I always drive.