[Trombone-l] Problem with my Elkhart Conn 72H

[Eric & Candice Swanson]

>At 10:02 PM 8/1/2007, t.stone at att.net wrote:
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>>Hi List,
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>>I'm new to the List and have never posted before ab am hoping I can 
>>get get some help regarding a problem I am having with my Elkhart 
>>Conn 72H......
>>

Earl Needham wrote:

>You might just check to ensure that nothing is in the slide 
>that shouldn't be there.  I knew a guy who had a similar problem, and 
>he fought it for maybe 3 or 4 months.  Finally one day he found a 
>pencil had been in the slide!
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Tim,

I'm with Earl here.  I've been in the repair business for 27 years, and 
you wouldn't believe some of the stuff I've found stuck in crooks.  A 
pencil stuck in the slide crook...seen it!  A cigarette in the slide 
crook.  A dent ball left in the tuning slide crook after an overhaul, 
etc.  Since the inner slide tubes are straight, I'll assume that you 
looked down through them and there is nothing in them.  I would check 
the slide crook.  Run a flexible brush (snake) through and see if you 
hit anything.  Make sure you don't have a leak in the outer slide 
section, it could look fine but leak like hell.  It could be a leaky 
cork even.  If all else fails, you could replace the slide crook with a 
new 62H crook and see if that fixes it.

Trying another slide is always the first thing I recommend, so you did 
the right thing there.  That way you isolate the problem...is it in the 
bell section or slide.

Eric