[Dixielandjazz] Re: the next dumb thing after Gig Bags are opened

[Larry Walton Entertainment]

Well Russ the same thing happened to me.  I have a Winston soprano.  The
horn plays nice except the high register.  I can play it in tune but it's
not naturally in tune.  It does have a nice tone but so many of these
imports are really soft metal.  I did the same trick and it went over
bending the body of the horn and everything attached to it.  Lucky we have a
killer repair shop here.  They didn't charge me much because the laughs were
worth it to them.  So after three trips for adjustment problems I decided to
buy a Yamaha Custom at ten times the price.  The Yamaha is a great horn.  I
keep the Winston as an emergency horn.

Funny thing the Winston stock mouthpiece will not play on the Yamaha.
Yamaha stock mouthpieces really suck.  I was using a 3.5 or 4 Rico Royal on
the Winston.  I Bought a Bari mouthpiece on the recommendation of a friend
and it plays really well but a 2 or 2.5 reed feels about the same as a 4 on
the other mouthpiece.  A weak reed was, intonation wise, a waste of time on
the Winston.

Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Guarino" <russg at redshift.com>
To: "Michael Woitowicz" <banjobarons at nconnect.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 5:11 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: the next dumb thing after Gig Bags are opened


> Some of us can damage a horn no matter how careful we be.
>
> I just purchased a new soprano sax for $250 [  it plays really great, but
that's
> another story ] with two neck pieces, one straight and one curved.
>
> I took the body of the sax out of the case, set it down on the soprano
stand and
> attached the straight neck piece.  Forgetting that it needed to be
tighten, I
> then tried to pick up the horn by the neck piece [ my old horn did not
have a
> separate neck piece ].  To my surprise, the body of the horn fell to the
floor
> and bent the bell, but god be praised, nothing else was damaged.
>
> So I now have a brand new soprano, in a hard case, with a bent bell.
>
> Russ Guarino
>
> Michael Woitowicz wrote:
>
> > Interesting thread -- gig bags.
> >
> > I have one for my banjos, and use it occasionally when I travel by
plane. It
> > doesn't offer the greatest protection in the world, but it seems a bit
> > easier to get through security at the airports with a gig bag hung over
your
> > shoulder as opposed to carrying a hard shell case. Perhaps because it's
a
> > bit smaller overall than a hard-shell case.
> >
> > I don't use it for my best instrument, and am very, very careful how
place
> > it in the overhead storage compartment. I watch whoever else is putting
> > stuff in the same compartment and advise them to be careful.
> >
> > I can stuff a lot of other soft items in the bag for traveling, so it is
> > handy.
> >
> > Mike Woitowicz
> > The Banjo Barons Ragtime Band
> > The Dixie Barons Dixieland Band
> > www.banjomusic.biz
> >
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