Anyone who has contacted me and received a PayPal address to a gmail account from this brain-addled soon-to-be senior citizen, please correct it and try again.

It is what I sent you, but with "me.com" appended to the "@" and NOT "gmail.com".

Yeah, I am a doofus.

Wade

This thread. This whole thread. Old problems merit old solutions. IYKYK…

Titebond III if you ever exect to have to set it down on the pavement on a rainy day. It is waterproof. Titebond II if it *might* get a little wet, as it is water resistant. Titebond Original is NOT safe to get wet.

I really like Titebond III on plywood cases.

Wade

Worked with a tuner for a couple of hours today and ended up rebuilding the 2nd slide. Everything was really close, but with a tuner, the truth emerges… So played a lot of stuff from my last recital. I edited a lot of my piano parts ( or simply made my own edition of entire works) and I then created ...

The book is up and ready for purchase. I have increased what you get and lowered the price. You now get 275 pages of music for $275. That is A BUCK A PAGE for those of you who are arithmetically challenged! I am sick of doing this sales bit each year, so this is your last chance to get the best ...

I sent you a PM with the link.

Let me answer this tomorrow. I am about to hit the sack. I will send you a link to the file with all the updated and improved stuff for free… just please pass it on to him. I "improved" a lot of these, and added some I had wanted in the collection for years. I also added in some "serious" stuff that ...

This excerpt is not so hard on a tuba in A.

Well! This turned out better than I had hoped! Fingering Chart (needed pitch corrections) High Octave High F is still hard to nail on this tuba, but now it is not sharp AF… Middle Octave Gb/F# top of staff = 5th (12 can still be used, but I have to push in on 1st, and 5th is bang on with the tuner f ...

I lied. I feel like crap, but it is time for supper, and then it is back to bed where I will watch a movie and hopefully sleep. (I had a lot of trouble sleeping last time I had COVID-19, and it seems that this is a consistent thing for me.) https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-fKCLcZf/0 ...

The video is 8:02 and is just me reviewing what I have been working on with this tuba for the past week. The below paragraph is what I shared with this on Facebook for my well-intentioned friends who insist on telling me the world will end if I do not get my arse back to bed. Horse apples! :laugh ...

COVID Labor Therapy Richard Simmons would have been so proud of me, sweating to the oldies as I was all afternoon… I had my Motown playlist blaring away in the shop, probably causing some feline consternation, but that's too bad… I did a lot of piddly stuff to while away the time, without actually b ...

Very mild COVID. I'm having to miss four MSO or MSO BQ performances this week. Thankfully, I'm not getting docked from my salary. The first few days will be the worst, and so far I am mostly experiencing a loss of my senses of smell and taste. (Last February when I had COVID I thought I was going to ...

Well, I lack tools that would have made this a heckuva lot easier, faster, and nicer, but I have what I have, and I had little time and low supplies from which to draw. All this was done with a Dremel tool. Cutting, shaping, drilling, buffing, all on a Dremel. The tapping was done using a cheap hand ...

Doug Elliott P5 pr P5M Shank (not P5E, P5A orA+)

Got one? PM me. I can buy or trade.

Doug Elliott P5 pr P5M Shank (not P5E, P5A orA+)

Got one? PM me. I can buy or trade.

Due to my incredible mathematical idiocy, I hacked the 2nd slide thinking it was solving an irritating issue… and it did… and that introduced a passel of other issues that I did not notice at the time I did the work, so much later when I discovered the issues I suspected it was due to my new and rat ...

There are two, a thumb ring and a pinky ring.

It's installed. The soldering is messy but will clean up easily enough. One unintended outcome of rerouting the fifth slide and giving it a lot more pull is that it may capture my hand or require me to alter my hand position if it has to be pulled any more than in the photo, as you can see. I need ...