cornetguy

I second the opnion to take it to a repair tech. The one your school uses would be a good starting point.

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A.N.A. Mendez

I didn't read every post but did we check the water key corks?

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"Baby, I'm already the coolest, and the hippist, now you want me to be on time too?" Buddy Love

"We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and our best generals to edit our newspapers." Robert E. Lee

andrew_jordan

I heard about someone's marching horn one time... they got candy and sodas and stuff in the stands. Ate a bunch of crap in between shorties. One day during rehearsal the horn clogged up. No moving air. They took it all apart and a mass of maggots had hatched in the main tuning slide crook. At least your problem wasn't that.

AutumnLeaves

to all your suggestions; i'm going to check everything when i get the chance. i was outside all day today enjoying the nice weather.

and veery715; i agree with you completely. i do consider myself rather thick-skinned, but i was just standing up for myself and not letting people run over me. thanks to screamingmorris as well.

andrew_jordan; that is one of the most disgusting things i've ever heard. i'm quite glad that's not my problem.

oldlips48

I used a school horn in college once, and I cracked every time I needed to play the A above the staff. Examined the horn and found a small hole(!) in the second valve tuning slide where someone used pliers or something to pull it out.

BTW, I'm not sure I but the maggot story......

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oldlips48

Nor do I BUY the maggot story....

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tedh1951

Dunno about maggots but I have sat next to a young "lady" who blythely scoured food out of her mouthpiece with a knitting needle - and in the middle of a gig - strangely she didn't play too badly afterwards - I, on the other hand, made full use of a handy plastic bag, yuck - my skin still crawls.

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