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Niels Bohr, Danish nuclear scientist of Nobel fame and working for the US during WWII, hung a horseshoe over his door. A scholar visiting him asked whether the professor believed in horseshoes bringing happiness: Bohr replied, that it was his understanding that they worked whether one believed in them or not.

It shouldn’t bother me, but I don’t like 13 in any context.

Sven Bring, our fellow TubeNetter, has been through times so rough, that I honestly believed he was gone. He isn’t out of dire straits yet, but the other day he sent me a mail asking for my street address, as he would send be an non-playable 3-banger in F made by German immigrants in Sweden: Sandner & Leistner in Kristianstad.

Friday I found a note that the postman in vain had attempted a delivery very early in the morning. I couldn’t fetch it until today. When I stuck a mouthpiece in it, I couldn’t get the pedals, but only go from B natural be low the staff until the 16th partial F.

OK, it is a single F horn, but my main point stands: Sven is still with us! And his error about the alleged non-playability has been forgiven already.

Klaus, now with 13 horns from Sweden, Russia, Czechia, Germany, Austria, Italy, the UK, and the US, 1 double, 1 comper, and 11 singles in 5 different pitches: Bb soprano, G descant, Bb, G, and F

the elephant wrote:Better get yourself a 14th horn ASAP! I do not want evil to befall you!

I guess you have close links to a potential donor in the Jackson extended wire choir!

I am a freak about single F horns, which have in all permutation of rotors/pistons and right/left plus Wienerhorn (that one bought no ticket to Graz).

At the London parade of today I again noted one special fact about the British military players different from many Danish and American military players. The Brits appear to march their concert instruments. Double horns, trombones with Thayer valves.

In our royal lifeguard parading Copenhagen at the shifts of guard during November through Easter the WW players have concert instruments, which eventually are demoted to street instruments and finally end up, in the "for rainy days only" category. Horns are single Bb on the street. The F tuba has the 5th and 6th valve removed, The CC’s are 4 valvers. The euph is a 3 valve non comper with one or two triggers (only one euph, the other two members in the section play baritones).

Straying.

Klaus