Found this in my case, what is it?
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 12:04 am
Hi everyone,
I've been helping out a friend by playing in my local Salvation Army band. To make things easy I've been using an S/A horn that's kept on-site for practices and performances so I don't have to schlep mine back and forth. The horn is a York "Presence" model (3409 or 3904?). This horn has hardly been played since the center opened more then a decade ago. When putting the horn back in its case tonight I spotted the item in the attached photo in the back of the mouthpiece compartment of the case
I've never seen one of these and neither has anyone in the group I'm playing with. The spacing of the holes is about right to match the stem placement on the three upright valves and there is some kind of spring loaded tab in the middle hole. The thing is capped on both ends and it has a nice silver finish to match the horn so I'd guess this wasn't meant to just lock the valves down for shipping plus the the finger buttons couldn't fit into the holes. Can anyone tell me what this is for?
This is the first time I've tried attchimg a photo here so I hope it works. Thanks for any guidence you may have.
I've been helping out a friend by playing in my local Salvation Army band. To make things easy I've been using an S/A horn that's kept on-site for practices and performances so I don't have to schlep mine back and forth. The horn is a York "Presence" model (3409 or 3904?). This horn has hardly been played since the center opened more then a decade ago. When putting the horn back in its case tonight I spotted the item in the attached photo in the back of the mouthpiece compartment of the case
I've never seen one of these and neither has anyone in the group I'm playing with. The spacing of the holes is about right to match the stem placement on the three upright valves and there is some kind of spring loaded tab in the middle hole. The thing is capped on both ends and it has a nice silver finish to match the horn so I'd guess this wasn't meant to just lock the valves down for shipping plus the the finger buttons couldn't fit into the holes. Can anyone tell me what this is for?
This is the first time I've tried attchimg a photo here so I hope it works. Thanks for any guidence you may have.