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A while back I posted about a student's horn (a large Martin BBb) sometimes playing well and sometimes sounding like there was a hole in it. I finally borrowed the instrument and did some "extreme flushing", really filling the instrument with water and snaking it out thoroughly. Although I saw nothing, (and I mean nothing!) float out with the water, the problem has gone away and the horn plays better than ever. I can only assume it was something in the horn that could dissolve in water and float out undetected, (spider web?, a lump of "slide grease plus ?-goo"?-who knows?)

I'm just posting to give everyone the end of the story-happily ever after, so far!

bloke wrote:As many of us remember, this http://www.people.memphis.edu/~jaross/i ... tbow2a.jpg was retrieved from the bottom bow of a Reynolds 4-valve recording bell "Contempora".

Darn. And all this time, I've been wondering where I left that mouse...

My old Reynolds sousie in 8th grade began to smell funky so I spun it and a bat in similar condition to that mouse fell out

I wonder if that mummified rat's "death grimace" was due to the last sounds it was forced to endure.....