| Re: Trumpet Mishaps
I had just started playing again after decades of inactivity. My friend, a Yamaha brass tech, had found a good used student horn for me at a good price. I played it for a few weeks and took it to his shop just to get new corks put on the spit valves. That took 10 seconds and we then got to talking while I put the horn back into it's case, which was on a service counter. We got to talking and he was describing in great detail how Yamaha's don't require glue for the corks; how lucky it was to find a used horn in such great shape; how it had no dings even! etc, etc ...
We finished yakking and I grabbed the handle of the case and turned to go and flung the horn about across the room, the mouthpiece through the door. My stomach and the horn both hit the floor simultaneously. As it turned out, and because I proved to so entertaining, my friend deemed it a shop accident and repaired the bell for me at no cost. I was lucky that the bell was the only real damage. Oh, and the corks stayed on, even without glue.
The amazing thing is that six months later he gifted me his old orchestra horn, a 1975ish Schilke B5. I drop this one, I take up a new identity! |