I just did the same banding on an alto Brilhart Tonalin Great Neck, leaving all of the shank printing visible. As with the tenor, I used the band off of a...
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EgilF.
egfurre
Apr 9, 2013 5:07 pm
Today I got a new customer: A 80-year-old still playing jazz musician who had destroyed his Berg Larsen HR alto mouthpiece. The mission is to try to create a...
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EgilF.
egfurre
Apr 9, 2013 5:10 pm
A better link for the pictures: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjEDQrHB...
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MartinMods
lancelotburt
Apr 10, 2013 6:31 am
One of the countless things sax players have stuck in their mouthpieces over the years, in attempt to change the way a stock mouthpiece plays. That makes the...
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fidlershorns
Apr 10, 2013 1:21 pm
It seems to me that many of the hacked emails are broken into by someone who has hacked an easy to determine password or a short password. If you are smart...
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tenorman1952
Apr 11, 2013 4:40 pm
... Not necessarily. Some hackers use pretty sophiticated programs or social engineering to steal your user account and password from yahoo or yourself....
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fidlershorns
Apr 12, 2013 2:26 pm
Paul, Phishing is usually listed after weak passwords and repeatedly used passwords in the computer tech articles. So if Mojo lets us warn others a bit, that...
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Mike
mike_wilkens...
Apr 20, 2013 6:26 am
I would be very interested in original tenor sax curve and baffle measurements for original Otto Link Reso Chamber and original Selmer Short Shank Soloist...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
Apr 22, 2013 4:26 pm
Mouthpiece makers do not give out their internal facing specs. Most mouthpiece are made inconsistently so that you can not measure just one to reverse...
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Mike
mike_wilkens...
Apr 23, 2013 3:52 pm
Keith, Thanks for the info! Theo Wanne said something similar on his mouthpiece museum page, but specifically about Soloists with larger tip openings (F, G &...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
Apr 25, 2013 5:59 pm
Here is a curve from an old Tenor Soloist F. It is actually a .088, 42, +2 in my system. The data shows my set of feelers, the left and right rail...
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Mike
mike_wilkens...
Apr 27, 2013 12:44 am
I am using the "Mouthpiece Facing Curve Analysis" (credited to Mojo & A. Donaldson) in Neo Office, and I want to start using the solver to calculate best fit...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
Apr 30, 2013 12:15 am
I am not familiar with Neo Office.  There are 3 paramaters that need to be solved to get an ellipse of best fit for a set of data. It depends on how the...
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Mike
mike_wilkens...
Apr 30, 2013 3:49 am
It's the "Facing Curve Worksheet." I believe I got it from the Yahoo Workgroup Files, but I'm having trouble finding it again, so maybe I got it elsewhere. ...
Dear, sorry for my english! I can not get the resistance of a Meyer 8M, even using a radial curve. any ideas? I've done everything! Thank you....
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MartinMods
lancelotburt
May 5, 2013 9:30 pm
My new stainless steel ligature and cap - www.martinmods.com/ss01.jpg www.martinmods.com/ss02.jpg www.martinmods.com/ss03.jpg ________________________________ ...
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Barry Levine
moeaaron
May 5, 2013 11:17 pm
That's a nice idea, that row of drilled out spacers for the ligature, enabling consistent ligature placement, and locking it in place. OTOH, I always found...
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MartinMods
lancelotburt
May 6, 2013 12:57 am
Thanks Barry, Cutting super-fine threads in the screw mechanism let's you easily tighten as much as is needed to keep the reed from sliding out of position. ...
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Mike
mike_wilkens...
May 6, 2013 8:39 am
After a little more playing around and research I think I understand my problem and figured I would post it here in case it helps anyone else. I downloaded a...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
May 6, 2013 2:07 pm
What is the tip opening and facing length? It may just be too open for you....
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
May 6, 2013 2:29 pm
It is possible to set up a spreadsheet for iterative calculations. I used to do it decades ago before built-in solvers were available. It is a lot more...
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STEVE GOODSON
saxgourmet
May 9, 2013 3:45 pm
Wolf Tannenbaum, AKA Wolf Tayne, passed away today at age 95.....he was active in refacing mouthpieces until very recently. Wolf had studied with Santy Runyon,...
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Tom Tapscott
sonusrepair
May 9, 2013 5:11 pm
Another of the "old guard" who helped us get where we are today! Indeed...RIP. Â Sonus Instrument Repair Tom Tapscott 802 Glendale Dr Clarksville, TN 37043 ...
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megaohmer
May 10, 2013 8:06 pm
This sounds pretty nice but i wonder if you dont get just as good results "eyeballing" the curve against the measurements curve in a chart. Then manyually...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
May 10, 2013 9:42 pm
It is easy to throw out a point you do not want to include in your fit. Just delete the diff^2 calculation in the cell for that point.  The fit is a way to...
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tenorman1952
May 11, 2013 12:10 am
Take care, Wolf... and may your reeds never split and your pads stay soft. Paul...
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Kenneth
kkshaw43
May 11, 2013 12:35 pm
Barry - Wrap a thick rubber band several times around the knob, and tightening will be no trouble. A short length of silicone surgical tubing will be more...
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barrylevine
moeaaron
May 12, 2013 7:51 pm
Advice appreciated. That said, I haven't played a metal Link for years, and switched to a Rovner on my last Link. As I sit at this computer bench, one of the...
