"Has been worked on by professional repairman and put in working condition.
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Electrical tape is there for a reason, I know one reason is to hold in a loose reinforcment piece of brass, other is I think to plug a suspected leak."
Look out Dan, Joe, Lee and Sam, there's an electrical tape wanna-be gunning for ya!
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
If you replaced that valve section with a front-action, shortened it to CC, put a different bell on it, and swapped out the "bugle" of the instrument for a Bohm & Meinl, you might actually have something there!
What mouthpiece do you suggest?
Dan Schultz
"The Village Tinker" http://www.thevillagetinker.com" target="_blank
Current 'stable'... Rudolf Meinl 5/4, Marzan (by Willson) euph, King 2341, Alphorn, and other strange stuff.
