Shoulder Pad Idea - Anyone ever tried this?

[ken k]

looks like a nice idea, let us know how it works out for you. how is the helicon treating you???!?!?!

could you fit a piece over the bottom to have a bottom bow protector? The problem there would be getting it to stay in place.

ken k

[Homerun]

Definitely on to something here... looks great!

[Instrumental27]

A couple of velcro straps would secure the ends pretty well, and still look pretty good. Would work for the bottom bow idea very well, I think.

[SousaSaver]

AH HA!

I use the exact same stuff on dent rods to keep the bell from touching the rod when repairing dents in the bows of Tubas.

[iiipopes]

I'm going to forward the idea on to a friend of mine. He plays the mid-30's Cavalier (predecessor to the 14K) that I used to, and, well, finish interaction is not an issue.

[Carroll]

Not to rain on your parade... but us po folk in these here backwoods been doin this for years.

[imperialbari]

Not to rain on your parade... but us po folk in these here backwoods been doin this for years.

Oh you still have these backwoods? I thought you had cut them down to secure a steady supply of serpents in your metropolitan school systems.

Just for my own education: How do TN people define the differences between their backwoods and their backwaters? Some bloke has water as well as wood in the back of his property.

K

[imperialbari]

I think your padding is better than the commercially made ones I have seen. These look like having seams, which will do more harm than good for your left should. they also look more bulky and distracting than your single piece padding.

I certainly hope you pan handle reinventing something already known in TN. (Cun intended)

K

[Carroll]

Just for my own education: How do TN people define the differences between their backwoods and their backwaters? Some bloke has water as well as wood in the back of his property.

K

As I understand it:
We are backwoods because no major highway reaches the woods in which we reside (or teach, in my case). The front woods is right there by the interstate highway.

Backwaters are similarly distant from well traveled waterways.

[imperialbari]

Like this ?:

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[Walter Webb]

...I bought a 6' long piece of 1" I.D. foam insulation. This was just $1.26 plus tax. Today I grabbed the razor sharp fillet knife of mine and cut off 15" of this insulation and slid it over the existing brass shoulder plate. it fit snug enough and didn't seem to want to slip off. I then trimmed up the corners a bit to make it look like this might have actually been a pad intended for this horn. I'm quite pleased with the results. I'll be even more pleased if it stays in place while I'm playing...

This kind of pipe insulation IS available in 2'' id. On my Eb Helicon, it is a bit too large, but would probably be a better fit for your larger Bb tube. I find it very comfortable to shoulder my Helicon whist traipsing thru the backwoods to the backwaters, where I use it as an alligator call. The large bulls in heat respond most vocally.

[SousaSaver]

BOOM!

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[imperialbari]

bloke raises the question of an acidic content in the insulation material. Wouldn’t such content also attack metal plumbing?

We are using more and more plastic plumbing, but I would assume that there still is a lot of copper and galvanized iron plumbing in the US also.

I have seen such insulation of a smaller inner diameter used to protect trombone hand slides during shipping.

Klaus

[imperialbari]

On my helicon, I use dense foam rubber for both a small shoulder pad and a small lower pad, but both over and under the foam rubber on both pads is a layer of protective Naugahyde fastened to itself with Velcro...in this case (per the finish on the instrument), the Naugahyde is "sparkle silver".

What do you juse on the pimpophone? Peat?

K

[bort]

bloke raises the question of an acidic content in the insulation material. Wouldn’t such content also attack metal plumbing?

That's kind of what I would think as well.

Plumbers gotta keep themselves in business, one way or another.