[Trombone-l] alto trombone was Re: WBEZ-CHICAGO PLANS TO PHASE OUTMUSIC

[John Burton]

Where'd you buy yours, Pieter?

Seems the only place I've found either Selman or Stagg is e-bay ...

On the main these look like what I'm wanting tho...

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john burton
Bach 50B3
Bass Trombone, Charleston NeoPhonic Orchestra
South Charleston, West Virginia

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pieter Bos [mailto:bos.pieter at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 5:00 AM
> To: Jeff Albert; John Burton; TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] alto trombone was Re: WBEZ-CHICAGO 
> PLANS TO PHASE OUTMUSIC
> 
> I bought one of those Selman altos. Although this one is 
> branded Stagg, comes with a full year of warranty and can be 
> bought in normal shops, it's exactly the same instrument. It 
> plays ok, comes with a really nice and light case, very 
> shallow very wide mouthpiece, small cleaning cloth and cheap 
> white gloves (?!?). Slide was scratchy at first. Turned out 
> it needs a cleaning rod, an old shirt, some brasso and a bit 
> of your time and it should work fine. Tuning slide is a bit 
> loose, but hetman ultra slide grease fixed that. Others have 
> had comparable results. The removable leadpipe can be 
> replaced by those that fit the Kuehnl and Hoyer Slokar, if 
> you would want to. Apparently, this improves it a bit, but it 
> also costs nearly as much as the entire instrument. The 
> entire instrument is a copy of this Slokar model.
> The case is an adapted copy of a BAM classic, the case for 
> the Selmans apparently is some other design than mine, a full 
> hard case while mine is mainly styrofoam with cloth (and 
> perhaps some very light wood, no way to tell really).
> 
> Buying a mouthpiece for this thing is strange - you're 
> putting one third of the worth of your instrument in a mouthpiece!
> 
> I had the change to compare it with a Laetsch, which costed 
> over ten times as much. The Laetzsch clearly responded better 
> and had a better sound, with about the same degree of but 
> quite different intonation issues. But you can buy ten of 
> these inexpensive ones for just one Laetzsch!
> 
> Overall, i certainly don't regret my purchase, nice little 
> horn to learn to play alto trombone on and it sounds quite 
> good. I'd stay away from the nickel plated one though. If 
> it's not lacquered, you might develop a nickel allergy from 
> playing it often - that's best avoided!
> 
> Pieter
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Albert" <jeff at jeffalbert.com>
> To: "John Burton" <John.Burton at JohnBurton.org>
> Cc: <TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu>
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 7:21 PM
> Subject: [Trombone-l] alto trombone was Re: WBEZ-CHICAGO 
> PLANS TO PHASE OUTMUSIC
> 
> 
> > John,
> >
> > I have a Weril alto that is quite good for the money, no Bb  
> > attachment though.  It is a tuning in the hand slide 
> instrument.  I  
> > think they are about $800 new.  I never play mine and would be  
> > willing to sell it.  make an offer if it interests you.
> >
> > jeff
> >
> > www.jeffalbert.com
> > (225) 303-6226
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 14, 2006, at 11:33 AM, John Burton wrote:
> >
> >> This is a somewhat odd request, but I seem to recall 
> someone on- list 
> >> bought one of those "Selman" alto trombones a while back.
> >>
> >> What was the result on that?
> >>
> >> I'm looking for a low-cost alto trombone, would like one w/Bb 
> >> attachment, but I'm not picky.
> >>
> >> Reason for this is for the trombone ensemble, I'd like to 
> bring it  
> >> in "just in case".  I'm sticking to my Contra and Bach 50B3 in the 
> >> ensemble, but I know others who might like to pick it up 
> and play it.
> >>
> >> I'm not willing to commit $1500 to a trombone that's less 
> likely to  
> >> be played than my soprano trombone, but I'd still like to have an  
> >> alto around for when needed.
> >>
> >> Ideas?
> >>
> >> ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
> >> john burton
> >> Bach 50B3
> >> Bass Trombone, Charleston NeoPhonic Orchestra South 
> Charleston, West 
> >> Virginia
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >>
> >> From: trombone-l-bounces at maillists.samford.edu on behalf of Chris 
> >> Tune
> >> Sent: Fri 4/14/2006 1:50 AM
> >> To: George Carr; thetubameister at adelphia.net
> >> Cc: trombone-l at server5.samford.edu; tjonz42 at yahoo.com
> >> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] WBEZ-CHICAGO PLANS TO PHASE OUT MUSIC
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Well. . yes.  But there were only two people at the time.  
> Adam and  Eve.
> >> And no doors anyway. . .
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "George Carr" <georgecarr at gmail.com>
> >> To: <thetubameister at adelphia.net>
> >> Cc: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>; <tjonz42 at yahoo.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:21 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] WBEZ-CHICAGO PLANS TO PHASE OUT MUSIC
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 4/13/06, thetubameister at adelphia.net 
> >>> <thetubameister at adelphia.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Too true - a decline in basic civility.  And it is 
> equally true  in 
> >>>> art as well.
> >>>
> >>> Just exactly when was this Golden Age when 'basic civility' was 
> >>> commonplace and rarely ignored?  I seem to have read about people 
> >>> complaining about the decline of civilization since ... 
> civilization 
> >>> started.  Was there really some actual time/place when everybody 
> >>> held open each other's doors and smiled warmly at each 
> other all the time?
> >>>
> >>> Just trying to keep things in persepctive ...
> >>>
> >>> George
> >>>
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