The "other" Shake Weight?

I don't refer to it as "Artificial Imbecile" without reason . . .

One of the more odd things I've played . . . we did a first read of "Symphony #1 in Memoriam Dresden 1945" last night . . .

prodigal wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2026 7:45 pmPanzertuben?

The smartass in me concluded that if I played opera, I could, at times, refer to it as "Panzer Faust"

(It's the bomb!)

Perhaps we have revealed evidence that the Germans, ever practical as they can be, came up with a "Young Scholars" parts line, made from 70 percent "normal" brass alloyed with 30 percent old Panzer armor. :laugh:

Two birds, one stone!

(Oh, and the mouthpiece "wobble" was pretty minor to begin ...

950 miles, actually, but close enough for either horseshoes or hand grenades. :laugh:

Ironically, with this trip, cost me about 100 more miles that we would have gone anyhow. Milwaukee/Chicago (likely next closest - we make Williston look outright "urban" in terms of proximity to anything "large ...

When somebody says they play the recorder, I would probably ask them whether it's tape or digital.


Ironically, back in 6th grade music (in classroom, 1 hr a week or so), they presented us with "recorders" . . . My Dad had just gotten a pretty nice tape recorder, and I was amazed (albeit briefly ...

The only thing I can think of that we discussed that I didn't see mentioned was that tiny ding in the receiver that fights with solidly seating the mouthpiece.

And glad to see that not everything is a disaster area to work on!

My thanks and appreciation to all in the "chain of custody" for the keel! I'll give it a good home!

I also tend to believe the same things about electric bass guitars that I do about mouthpieces... How much mass, how much weight, the type of material (whether a particular type of wood, or plastic, or even sometimes metal) I don't believe makes much difference at all (though the overwhelming ...

And you deprived me from naming it "lard ass" ("lead ass"? "Iron butt"?) . . . Oh the angst . . . What will I ever do?

Ugh! Sorry . . .

(Probably explains why my local guy with limited tooling gave up on that though . . . )

Brought it up in the car as well (while still travelling), but can't hear much on tablet speakers. Beautiful space! Hoping to find a recording as well.

I'll officially "out" myself as the owner of this project 186.

I bought this after not playing for 34 years, and not wanting to sink a lot of $$$ in a horn until I knew how well I was going to do, but (even in this condition) I have grown fond of this horn. (And none of the issues found were made ...

Translation: "Union greed and grift is killing yet another long lived, well known American business."

Gotta wonder if they asked the employees if they preferred unemployment to trying to be competitive?

And the UAW probably couldn't suck any harder . . . the same bozos that complained/defended ...

Took the horn . . . no interest in what Car and Driver once dubbed "a flying d!ldo"

Perhaps play (and act out) less Clash covers?

iiipopes wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 10:43 am Decades of being on stage with speaker/instrument/microphone feedback have negatively influenced me. I have a hard time with the phrase and concept of "positive feedback."

Hit the "phase invert" button and then it's negative feedback

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Unfortuately, the Harbor Freight website doesn't show any rawhide mallets or rawhide hammers, so you may be out of luck, but there are plenty of other toys to choose from.


Oh well, if I cleaned up I'd probably find a couple that I forgot that I had. I have one large one and one small one that ...