Also sold. Right around the corner from me. Not someone I know though.

Sold already.

It's a bit confusing, because alto and tenor are used interchangeably when discussing E-flat instruments of this nature. (It took me a couple of months sometime in the last year or two to realize this, as I had never paid much attention to this particular nomenclature.)

Thanks for mentioning this ...

I put the torch to it and it immediately burst into flames. So, that's how I found out nail polish is flammable.


This made me wonder if nail polish is made out of nitrocellulose. Google says it is, but “at a low concentration” making it safe. Or at least safer than old film.

I wonder if it is ...

I have not seen this before. Where can I learn more?

Thanks,

Eric

I have a Willson Eb that ran pretty sharp, but I could get it in tune with the main tuning slide almost all the way out - basically on the verge of falling off. I wrote Willson but they wanted a fair amount for a longer one. Fortunately @Unclebeer is just up the road and he simply replaced the ...

My only knock on Sweetwater is that it took me the longest time to discourage them from phoning me at random times to ask if I needed anything.


I have emailed “my” sales engineer (at least he tells me he’s mine) when buying some expensive-ish stuff and asked if they could make me a deal, and ...

tubatodd wrote: I figured that was a good deal for a tuba bag. It was shipped straight from Sweetwater, including their standard bag of candy.

The most expensive candy on the planet.

Happy birthday!

Eric

If I’d’ve known how much the cordura likes cat hair, and how much our long-haired cats like cordura, I’d’ve splurged on a leather one.

The cats also really like Gator speaker bags.

Eric

I think the seller was one of my teachers about 45 years ago. How time flies….

Eric

Turns out they are booked up on the one day I could get by there. But they were indeed very speedy and nice in their reply. Some other time.

Eric

Turns out I’m an hour from the Alexander factory in Mainz. Tempted to visit them but mindful of wasting their time - the only thing they make that’d be remotely close to anything I’d be interested in would be a Bb 163, but from everything I have read that’s a way bigger horn than than little ol’ me ...

Kontrabasstuba wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2026 11:32 pm I NEED IT! Just wrote a mail to the shop...

Is anyone coming to Germany soon?

I am, but I don’t think that would fit in my carry on.

(And Baltimore Brass is 1400 miles from me)

Eric

I will be in the Rhine valley around Boppard for about a week in the near future. Would be interested in trying a Miraphone 494 if not too far away. Any suggestions?

Anything else of interest around there?

Thanks!

Eric

My world music group is playing this Saturday July 11th at Dr Jeckyll’s Beer Lab in the heart of Pantego Texas - which is completely surrounded by Arlington - from 7-10 PM.

Some highlights:

Five musicians - two violinists/violists, a mandolin/octave mandolin/mandocello/guitarist/accordionist, a ...

In my high school in Texas we either had to take two years of PE or band all four years. So totally did the band thing. I think if you dropped out of band after tenth grade you had to do PE the rest of your time in High School. I know very few folks that did that.

A coworker just reminded me of Eric Larson’s “Devil in the White City” which is set in Chicago in the 1890s and mentioned that there are two buildings remaining from that world’s fair. Neato.

Thanks everyone! Exactly the sorts of suggestions I was hoping to get!

We are staying somewhere near the field museum, so some of that sounds pretty close. Definitely interested in the live music in particular.

Keep’em coming!

Eric

My wife and I and some friends are all going to be in Chicago for a week or so coming up. None of us have ever spent any significant time there. Wondering if anyone can recommend some things we should check out while we are there, especially musical stuff falling anywhere from performer to purveyors ...

(Whoops! Managed to post this twice).

Dan Oberloh has posted some pretty detailed piston valve repair reels on Facebook which show a good bit of what you surmise. Pretty neat.