[Dixielandjazz] The PBone

[John McClernan]

Dave,
Thanks for the information and your perspective. Your premise sounds reasonable, it may get the kids to practice more. I guess I should get off my fat butt and go try a Pbone at a store.

I used a similar scheme for the past dozen or so years to promote home practice. I had the school buy Yamaha YSL-354 student bones and had them colorized (dark blue tint in the lacquer). After two diligent years in the program, students received a blue horn to use in school and kept theirs at home for practice. The carrot was the color and also not having to schlep a horn to school every day. It worked so well for recruiting trombones that we did the same with euphoniums. Tubas would have been next, but I retired.
 Cheers,
John


On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:04 PM, David Washburn wrote:

We have the pbones available here at our store. They are a Conn/selmer
product.   We just make sure everybody understands they are NOT meant
to replace or even sound like a brass horn, but provide an inexpensive
way to have something to practice on at home for the school students.
The slide stockings are of brass and are surprisingly smooth. If they
break you throw them out. As a repair tech, of course, I agree with
the below comments on quality and trying to convince a parent to buy
reasonable quality. It's almost impossible.

Thanks,
Dave in Dallas
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