[Trombone-l] stuck mouthpiece

[Daryl Burch]

To put the list at ease: though I myself have never in +/-25yrs. of 
playing had  a mouthpiece stick on me, I've watched way too many dads 
destroy them with the vise grips & 3-in-1 Oil method. My one trumpet 
playin' friend's dad actually owned the music store in my li'l town. 
And it was _thee only place_ to take your horn for repairs. They, in 
fact, had said mouthpiece puller and got many miles out of it. For the 
record, that is the ONLY corrective method I recommend for those 
unfortunate souls that have experienced this dilemma.

Consequently, there was only one time on a particular sousaphone found 
in the basement of the local Catholic high school, where it had been 
forgotten for 30-odd-years or so, that the mouthpiece puller could not 
get that mouthpiece out. But considering the volume of other issues 
with the horn, getting the mouthpiece out was the least of its troubles 
(e.g.: seized valves, flattened tuning slides, stuck water keys, 
gargantuan dents, etc. -- looked like it'd been run over a few times & 
left in a pool of muck). That was the only time I saw them actually 
"give up" on a horn.

Cheers!
-D-
www.radionoise.com <- Rock star by night
www.burchinteractive.com <- Tech-nerd by day #;-)

On Apr 10, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Gary Maxwell wrote:

> NO!!!!!!!!!!!!    Take it to a repair shop!
> Gary Maxwell
> Fuchsbone/ Bassbone
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