I always liked the LH thumbrest on the old Martin Indiana's. It wasn't a button. More like a molded piece with an indentation for the thumb and a little lip...
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As a clarification, when I terminated my relationship with Orpheus Musical Instruments LLC last summer, I left owning the trademarks for everything except...
Thanks Paul, Your fingering works well on this Conn. It doesn't seem to be too critical on the amount the Eb is opened. Tom De Winter ... From: tenorman1952 ...
Steve, I could measure my TH&C neck, if that would help. David ... THE NET ... showed the ... my files ... It's for an ... com/business.html ... electronic ......
I'm looking for a specific diagram which shows the differences in taper between the 01, 02, and 03 alto necks used on the True Tone series _____ From:...
hi mr. g. i have a 41 big B alto neck if that will be any help. P.J. ... From: STEVE GOODSON <saxgourmet@...> Subject: RE: [SaxophoneRepair] Re: need...
... critical on the amount the Eb is opened. ... Good to hear, Tom! With the Buescher you can just press the Eb palm key only until you feel it touch the D,...
ok ive come up with another shot in the dark.there is a guy who makes tt necks. all of them. his name is Mark Aronson he is in iowa i gues. or at netins.net as...
On Saturday a father came in and reamed me a new one because he paid me a "lot of money" to fix his 8th grader's sax and it doesn't work. When I finally got a...
Yea, and when you do look up the repair, you find that you had done only a quick adjustment and sent the customet on his way - and now that quick repair has...
Hi Mike, Last month, I had a customer come back with an alto sax that I had just repaired the week before. This man really hated being in my shop (any shop)...
You know, no matter how good a job you do, some people will be unhappy. When they become unhappy, they exaggerate.......I used to let it bother me, now I ...
Not a sax story, but same thing where you can't please someone- I just bought a new house a couple months ago. I had about a dozen trees taken down because...
Greetings All: I am actually dealing with a situation too. About 3 weeks ago a man brought in a Heckel made in the early 1900's that he wanted some tuning and...
Chad, don't sweat it. Steve G's advice on these matters is good.  Also, sometimes, I silently recite to myself a little saying I learned from a guitar tech...
Dealing with the public is always interesting isn't it? A while ago, at intervals of about every 3 months, an older gentleman would come into my shop with his...
I was at the Midwest Clinic a few years back assisting in the booth with Santy Runyon. This student came by, wanted to try some mouthpieces. He took about two...
i was running an auto repair shop when the boss was in iran.i was runing the frt. desk, chasing parts,dealing with customers,{not my cup of tea}.filing out...
PJ, In this age of political correctness it puts a smile on my face to hear you do what, I'm sure, is something we all would like to have done on many...
Did you ask him what planet he called home? ... From: tenorman1952 <tenorman1952@...> Subject: [SaxophoneRepair] Re: Has this happened to anyone else? ...
Customers are idiots. I get any grief from one I don't deserve I send them trottin forthwith. I learned a very important lesson while watching my mother die...
You know guys, I've been watching this thread and I've got to say while I'm not an instrument repair professional, I am a professional saxophonist who is a...
Fortunately, YOU are probably the good kind of customer and these guys are the good kind of repair techs! What it comes down to is the world is full of both...
What you expressed Bryan is so true; possibly more so for professional instrument repair tech's than most other professions. In my own experience as an...
Criticize my wife? Hell, I even criticize my wife!! ... while I'm ... saxophonist who ... someone ... better of ... of the ... quick once ... arriving to ... ...
Sounds to me like the repair guy you went to had just had someone ctiticise his wife .... chuckle Danny Wilson 03 3288141 0274479550 11 foster tce Lyttelton ...
Now I will admit that I charge more for horns with the Leblanc fingering system, horns with pivot screw locks, and a few horns with really exotic mechanisms,...
well i am a pro player and repair tech and there are nutters on both sides of the fence .... i agree with a previous post fro Steve ... NEVER let a non player...
I'm finalizing the design for our Bon Fils (that's Good Son in French) line of intermediate horns for the weekend warrior/advancing student. It's got the usual...
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