[Dixielandjazz] Re: More information about my wonderful cheap soprano

[Charlie Hooks]

On Monday, August 29, 2005, at 04:06 PM, Larry Walton Entertainment 
wrote:

> The old Bueschers have a low end to kill for and that's true but the 
> high end is a little weak.  New horns are made with a more powerful 
> high end because modern music demands the ability to scream. Older 
> music features the low end more. Rock changed everything.
>

This is also true of my old Buescher curved soprano: the low end is 
well in tune (for a soprano), but the higher notes are all "play at 
your own risk!"    This silver horn is also from 1927, and I bought 
it from the guy who had bought it new in that year; I took it out of 
the case, and it played!  Some moth eaten pads, but it actually 
played if you forced it a bit.   One general overhaul put it in 
excellent condition--but nothing repairs the intonation except your 
mouth--with each note--separately.

For a number of years I had a Saxello that, with a metal mouthpiece, 
could blast trumpet players into another dimension.   Someone stole 
if off the stand about 30 years ago: I'm sure the thief was an 
annoyed trumpet player.
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" When John Stuart Mill was a young man, he worried that we were 
running out of music, since there were only 8 notes and therefore  
only a finite amount of music possible."--Tom Sowell