| Re: Problems with my horn
1. Bravo to Miyot, rowuk and oldlou! Good answers all!
2. If you determine that the slides are leaking, you can expand the ends of the inside tubes using an old mouthpiece shank--extremely cheap.
3. To check for leaks: remove the first valve slide, depress the first valve, put you thumb firmly over the slide where air comes out, and blow. You can feel if it is leaking, and a free hand can feel where air is shooting out, or you can rub some spit (yucky, but this is a Vulgano trick, after all) on the joints and look for bubbles.
Your solutions in order are:
1. Lubricants
2. Careful expansion of metal
3. Addition of metal (by a repairman-even Vulgani don't, as a rule, mess with this stuff on their own horns).
Good luck!
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