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Hi Roland,
I am in Ft Myers and like Tom said, drop Nick a note, he is a super guy and very knowledgable. I would love to see a picture of your cornet. As far as it being stuffy, that is how my old 80A was ever since I got it from my grandfather in the early 70's. I had to blow so hard to get a decent tone it wasn't worth it. I had it replated in 73 or so and the only way it played well is if I ran warm water through it. Well I took it in recently to a shop and the guy found it was leaking a lot around one of the slides, he fixed that but it was still stuffy, felt and sounded like there was a few cotton balls stuck in it somewhere. It was the valves leaking so we sent it off to Andersons for a valve job. I just got it back a couple weeks ago and have not put it down much at all. It sounds so great and plays so well that I have bruised my lips playing it so much. If a valve job is what you need, go to a shop you trust and have them send it in. Andersons leaves the valves pretty tight for the shop to lap in just the way you want it. My bill was under 250 bucks, with new valves and a chem clean, it will play like a brand new horn.
Ken