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New Horn mania
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:47 pm
by jmerring
I have a Miraphone 186, which I bought new at Dillon's last year. I still have the new horn worries, such as fingerprints, dings, etc. I usually hold the horn with a small white cloth in my right hand, then wipe the horn down after using it. I am obsessive about it. My question to all is; would it be just too much to wear white cotton gloves or flesh colored latex gloves at all times while using the horn?
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:22 pm
by WoodSheddin
bloke wrote:yes.
confirmed
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 11:58 pm
by MartyNeilan
Take it on a tour. Put it under a bus, inside an equipment truck, on the back seat of a van, on a airplane. Repeat. THEN, after a few tours see how it looks
Of course, it will probably play better too.
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:22 pm
by ThomasDodd
cc_tuba_guy wrote:When I got to the metal detector, I tried to hand my horn through so they could search it (that's what they did in San Antonio.) The guy there said that if it doesn't fit thru the X-ray machine, it doesn't pass this point. So I placed it on the conveyor belt and it BARELY fit by an inch and a half! I don't know what I would have done if it didn't pass.
That's what supervisors are for
Good idea to ask at the airline counter for "assistance" getting it through security.
You bought the tickets for their plane after all.
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:38 pm
by Tubaryan12
I agree with tuba4sissies...i always relax and feel better about a horn after the 1st dent...just get it over with (make it a small one though)
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:19 pm
by tubatooter1940
I hate new cars and new horns.They force you to live in terror of that first new dent or scratch.You buy insurance on them and if damage occurs you must spend hours or days sheparding them thrugh the maze set up by the "repair givers".I am so happy to drive junk and play a 60 year old horn because a new dent in either one of them usually adds character and doesen't affect usability.
tubatooter1940
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:23 am
by Dylan King
I love the extra peanuts I get when I buy a seat for my horn. And it makes a comfortable pillow and "crying baby" sound barrier.
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:52 am
by MaryAnn
One of the reasons why I have never bought a brand new instrument, and have bought a brand-new vehicle only once. It is SO much less painful when the first dent and scratch are already there.
MA