Our Old, Beloved Horns (Long Lament)

[Todd S. Malicoate]

"Or when you live in a market that has military players, already having a full time playing job, taking(sometimes) work that the local freelancers could be playing, they having went to expensive music schools with aspirations of professional playing and such. Yes, life can definitely suck sometimes."

Dang, Phil...have you been stewing about that for a month?

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Oh, I've let it go, no problem. I just don't like to see a cheap shot go unchallenged. Guess I took the bait, huh?

[TexTuba]

[bttmbow]

I HATE when that happens!

If you have to sell one, the Alex very well may be the one you regret selling, but some of the others may be also. The tooling for the 21/2265s are still there, but the horns that get built may not recreate what you liked about them. Upshot: "don't sell if you don't have to".

Good luck,
CJH

[Uncle Buck]

Don't sell the Alex. Sell the MW-York. To me!
(Just kidding, not in the market right now, but if I were, I'd be happy to take that one off your hands and help you make your decision.)

[Mojo workin']

he would have posted his whiny-assed mental vomit in that thread about my pet dying just so he could feel like a man with large testicles. He is, as you can see from this post, an ***.

Poor Phil. I hope someone gives him a gig one day. He deserves it despite his area being flooded with better players. Poor, poor Phil. All that bile and no class to boot.

Well, I AM a man with large testicles. However, I was sympathetic to a Cretan such as you when your pet died. I was sorry to hear of that. Looks like I was on the receiving end of the cheap shot there.

Am I an ***? I agree with Bloke, we're all some sort of *** from time to time. I chose to be an *** here because this is the same context that you chose to be an *** in that Army Band recording thread. You know, where you did your standard practice of spreading pestilence all over someone for presenting an opinion that you don't agree with?

Thanks, but let is go, Todd. Phil is up to his usual trolling for responses. He is our resident troll who just happens to sign his name to his posts. He gets mad when others get work while he sits at home watching TV, despite the fact that a contractor is free to hire anyone they choose for whatever reason and is never bound to hire him, ever. But, if you read that thread you know that he believes that people owe him work. He stated clearly that he was seeing people playing gigs that "should have" been his. How could these gigs have been his if the contractor had enough of a preference for "non-Phil" players that Phil was never called for them?

Liar, liar. Pants on fire. Please continue posting, Wade. Your character reveals itself in black and white. One of the reasons why I'm always taking issue with you is because you are our LOUDEST whiner. The LOUDEST whiner does not want to look in the mirror.

[jimgray]

in the spirit of bringing this interesting post full circle...

My advice is simple: don't sell your Alex.
Why? Two reasons.
1) Consider your motivations for playing and the importance of your own enjoyment of the experience. Weigh that against how much you think it matters to others.
a) Will your orchestra really fire you for playing an Alex rather than a piston BAT? Probably not. Seiji Ozawa pretty much forced Chester at gunpoint to play a Yorkbrunner, but are you in that position?
b) Will you be happier if you play your Alex? Clearly...
c) if it is extra work to play your Alex well, how much is your happiness worth to you?
2) Never sell anything you can't replace.

These horns are incredibly special, and you should consider yourself it's custodian...
-good luck (and don't sell, but do play, your Alex)

Jim Gray

[Rick Denney]

...a Cretan...

A Cretan? Wade is from Crete? And here I thought he was from San Antonio.

Rick "a cretin utterly uninterested in other aspects of this exchange" Denney

[Rick Denney]

2) Never sell anything you can't replace.

I would modify this statement to: Never sell anything that is priceless to you for mere money.

Rick "noting that one dollar bill is no more special than the next one" Denney

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