Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:07 pm
Looks good. Whatever student did this doesn't deserve to have another school instrument.
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Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:45 pm
Or to badly misquote Holst, "Jupiter, the banger of jolt-ity."
Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 7:13 pm
If that’s what you call “good enough” I wouldn’t pay $100 more for better than good enough either!!
Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 8:16 pm
Fine work, bloke (as usual)
Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:17 am
Ooh.. what's the new thing that's good enough to get you to drive to Greyhound?
Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 7:30 am
Nice work
Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:47 am
Snoozebloke wrote:nevermind.bort wrote:Ooh.. what's the new thing that's good enough to get you to drive to Greyhound?
It's four-valve, front-action, and in extraordinarily well-preserved condition...
...but it's not rotary, it's not European-made, and it's not in C. (It's American-made).
Nice work on the Jupiter!
Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 4:16 pm
Does the new thing have the correct finger buttons?
Eh, Bort?
Eh, Bort?
Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 5:11 pm
Are you sure that's not some new form of valve venting?bloke wrote:There are some makes of instruments that make me frown, and make me feel very fortunate to be a John Packer dealer.
wtf...!?!?!?
Re: Jupiter, The Recipient of Smashidity...??
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:44 am
bloke wrote:I gave this school two prices - $100 apart...
- one to repair it well (no Ferree's dent machine work...mostly: sit-in-my-comfortable-chair work)
- a higher price would have been to put it in the condition that I would put it in were it mine, or if I were offering it for sale
Of course, they chose the lower one, so I'm having to hurry, and judge "good enough", but here is only a PORTION of what is required to make this back into a tuba...
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Did you have the bow guard for the horn somewhere before? Is that part new to the tuba?