bloke wrote:Maybe the cat doesn't like the horn...??
Whenever any of us get out the bagpipes and start messing around with them, one of our cats will r-u-n towards us (from as far away as seventy-or-more feet) and bite our ankles!
Whenever my wife practices singing at home, the cats paw at her.
Strangely enough, one of them is not even remotely bothered by the tuba and will just sit in the same room and look at me. The other one stays far away.
the elephant wrote:Thee is no lacquer on my horns. I hate most lacquer unless it is one of the new formulations. They are all raw brass or silver plated. (Or silver plated with big patches of raw brass, heh, heh, heh...)
For customers I use the normal rattle can Nikolas stuff sold by Allied. I have both the clear and the tinted that sort of goes with the current Holton student line tint. (Holton stuff is a bit more pinkish, though, than the Nikolas gold tinted stuff.) I do not like how the spray can stuff holds up over time. And if you do dent work to an area with that formula on it and it is more than a few years old, it comes off really easily in flakes as the dent comes up.
The new stuff at the factories is great. Someday when I grow up I might have to set up a lacquering booth with a real gun and the ability to mix my own stuff.
Thanks for reading this thread, though!
Wade
Thanks Wade, on this topic do you know of a way to remove the new (epoxy???) finishes? A friend wants to get his Yamaha naked and asked about this. You are right, those finishes are great when you don't want them to come off, even with the soldering torch. The horn in question has quite a bit of wear and he'd like to just strip it bare and polish it.
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40years ago I took a job teaching "brass" in a school where instrumental music was compulsory for grade 6. There had been nobody to teach brass and I had a class of over 50. There was not a single playable instrument as with no teacher the hoons had totally destroyed everything.
I made my classes elective by quickly sending most to the headmasters office for special physical education. Every week I took boxes of pieces home and made a few more playable horns. I set some very rigid standards. By end of year we had a decent little brass band and I could even trust the kids enough to let one use my King to learn tuba.
IF you can set and enforce discipline, work your guts out and develope two way respect and trust, success sometimes comes.
Ken Herrick wrote:IF you can set and enforce discipline, work your guts out and develope two way respect and trust, success sometimes comes.
Ken, that "enforce" bit is where things seem to terribly wrong most of the time.
VERY TRUE!! In this case I had support of administration to give students the option of proper participation or leaving so that those who DID want to learn some music could without disruption. Those who left were likely to spend the class period cleaning the school grounds. A few of the real wreckers received harsher sanctions.
