TromboneChat

harrisonreed wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 4:50 pm If only he had used leather grips!

Crazy4Tbone86 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:43 pm Please tip your hat in observation of the Edwards outer slide tube below for 25 years of service. The owner claims he got the horn in about 1994 or 1995 and has used it constantly ever since. You can see that this outer tube (lower) needs to be replaced and the upper inner tube also needs to be replaced. If you look at the photo carefully you can see the player's thumb mark to the left of the brace solder and the big hole where his index finger or middle finger was placed.

Three interesting things about this particular slide:

1. It is so early in Edwards history that there is no Edwards labeling on it.
2. The slide crook is gold brass (about .589 bore).....I never saw that before on an Edwards.
3. The player admitted that he wrapped up the holes with packing tape and kept playing on it for about 2 or 3 years!

https://trombonechat.com/download/file. ... ew&id=5931

Crazy4Tbone86 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:54 pm Nothing got mangled by intention or brute force. There was never any abuse of the instrument. The slide action of this tube was actually still pretty good!

This is just an example of how a person's skin chemistry combined with repeated use can wear through metal at the contact points. The entire area around the big hole is paper thin because the musician used the instrument so much.

Crazy4Tbone86 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:54 pm Nothing got mangled by intention or brute force. There was never any abuse of the instrument. The slide action of this tube was actually still pretty good!

This is just an example of how a person's skin chemistry combined with repeated use can wear through metal at the contact points. The entire area around the big hole is paper thin because the musician used the instrument so much.

Elow wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 7:17 pm

Crazy4Tbone86 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:54 pm Nothing got mangled by intention or brute force. There was never any abuse of the instrument. The slide action of this tube was actually still pretty good!

This is just an example of how a person's skin chemistry combined with repeated use can wear through metal at the contact points. The entire area around the big hole is paper thin because the musician used the instrument so much.

Is there any way to find out you have acidic hands before it’s too late?

tbonesullivan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:59 am I remember that the Saxophone Professor at Rutgers when I was there, Ralph Bowen, had acidic sweat. He ended up with holes in his horns where he held them. Some people just are that way. I have friend who plays guitar, and his strings are black after about half an hour of playing. For me it takes a month.

tbonesullivan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:59 am

That would be a bummer to be a saxophonist and own a Selmer Mark VI, only to have your hands chew holes through it! What does he do? Buy a student-level saxophone and just expect to get a new one every few years?

Crazy4Tbone86 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:31 am

tbonesullivan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:59 am I remember that the Saxophone Professor at Rutgers when I was there, Ralph Bowen, had acidic sweat. He ended up with holes in his horns where he held them. Some people just are that way. I have friend who plays guitar, and his strings are black after about half an hour of playing. For me it takes a month.

That would be a bummer to be a saxophonist and own a Selmer Mark VI, only to have your hands chew holes through it! What does he do? Buy a student-level saxophone and just expect to get a new one every few years?