{"id":490,"date":"2016-02-15T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldnoseconsulting.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:13:51","slug":"volume-9-the-trumpet-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/2016\/02\/volume-9-the-trumpet-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 9 – The Trumpet Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Band practice was cancelled last week due to bad weather, and it might be cancelled again tonight. \u00a0I hope not, since I have a different trumpet to try out now.\"cropped-IMG_20151112_205745.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Finally, after a couple of months of trying various remedies and techniques, I was able to remove the tuning slide from the laquered ’73 Olds Ambassador trumpet this past weekend.<\/p>\n

What finally worked? \u00a0First, I soaked the entire horn in warm water with vinegar in it for 4-5 hours. \u00a0Then, with light tapping on the slide with a screwdriver and a mallet, I was able to loosen the slide enough so that I could pull it out. \u00a0The funny thing was that it didn’t look all corroded like you might expect.<\/p>\n

I will reassemble the horn with valve oil and slide grease this afternoon. \u00a0If we DO have band practice this evening, I’ll take the ’73 with me to try out tonight. \u00a0From previous tests, it seemed to blow much more freely than my\u00a0silver Ambassador. \u00a0We’ll see this evening, hopefully.<\/p>\n

\"cornet-trumpet\"In other trumpet-related notes, I won a cheap auction for a couple of wallhanger horns… the first is a semi-mangled H.N. White silver-plated cornet from the early 20th century (missing all 3 valves) , and the 2nd is a Sky trumpet (who makes these?? this one is missing one valve and one of the bottom valve caps). \u00a0The Sky looked like it was originally black, but someone had sanded off most of the finish, except for the valve casings.<\/p>\n

Why would I buy those, you ask? \u00a0Well, since they’re not worth repairing, I am going \u00a0to build a desk-top fountain out of the Sky trumpet, and I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the cornet yet. \u00a0In coming months, I’ll show you\u00a0photos of the progress of the trumpet fountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Band practice was cancelled last week due to bad weather, and it might be cancelled again tonight. \u00a0I hope not, since I have a different trumpet to try out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[45,71,65,114,43,41,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}