Another school needs a hodgepodge of (mostly) Jupiter, Conn, and King sousaphones repaired, along with one or two other instruments repaired within a week from now. They've been sitting here for a week or so. One of the Jupiter sousaphones was the worst of that batch - with the lower mouth pipe folded, some of the main tuning slide braces broken, and the braces to the receiver broken - along with dents, stuck slides, missing valve guide parts, and all that jazz... I went ahead and completely repaired that one today.
Tomorrow night, one of our best (fastest paying) band customers (national competitive band, actually) will meet up with me. He and I both play in that ringer band that I've been discussing a little bit. I ordered a Blackburn mouthpipe for his fancy model Yamaha trumpet and it arrived a couple of days ago. I have a couple of repairs to hand off to him along with an invoice, and I think I'm going to put a couple of little temporary pads on the players left side of that mouthpipe along with a couple of zip ties, so he can fool around with it at the band rehearsal. I think he'll like that.
Today was the Christian churches' Sabbath... I suppose I was doing the Lord's work...
... Mrs bloke got started on working on seven bassoons for Ole Miss, today. One of them doesn't need much, and the other six are...well...
We need to get this crap cleared out of here, because the summer stuff's going to hit real soon. We've actually got a couple of other pretty good piles of instruments from some North Mississippi schools over near Alabama to get out of here, too.
We can use the money, but I've got some stuff that I would love to finish for myself - as does Mrs. bloke, but never mind... And never mind getting this property mowed. It's raining cats and dogs most every day.
I've blown several days working on some pretty difficult music I had to perform, and that's now passed...so it's time to go back out to the dungeon.
