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Mary Ann

the elephant wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 8:50 am I'll take it if you don't want it.

Yeahbut you won't let him ship it.

Mary Ann

Tuesday in the trio rehearsal that used to be all double reeds but is now oboe, clarinet, and cellassoon, for the last low Bb in a piece, I stopped and turned the C string peg down to Bb before I belatedly played the last note. The clarinet thought it was hilarious, and the oboe was a bit confused ...

Mary Ann

The only B&S F I ever played belonged to Mark Nelson (probably still does) and I was comparing it to the MW 182 I had. The B&S definitely had an easier low register, and I suspect it was at least in league with the NStar in that respect, and maybe even easier. I am a way better player now than I was ...

Mary Ann

I'm getting better at mashing the right levers (no buttons for my skinny fingers) on the Eb and am only moderately confused between it and the F/Bb horn. Moderately. Since one is right handed and the other left, I think that helps the feeble aging brain with the pattern recognition.

Mary Ann

Mary Ann wrote: Sat Jun 20, 2026 7:27 pm Oh, I was polite to the guy who screwed up, but my opinion has been known far and wide otherwise.
And I see no reason for you to dis the OP. Uncalled for, makes you no better than what you are saying about him.

Mary Ann

Oh, I was polite to the guy who screwed up, but my opinion has been known far and wide otherwise.

Mary Ann

arent these kinda known for being stuffy in the low register?

The one I have is less stuffy than my 283, but it has been modified with a standard-sized receiver. It is also full of dents that do not appear to have any negative effect. Mine anyway is not even in the same ballpark of stuffiness ...

Mary Ann

Someone on this site (Ace Morgan) has something that looks like that -- he was sitting behind me in a concert band a few years ago (I was playing horn,) and I heard a difference one night. I thought he had gotten himself a BBb! (He's an Eb guy.) But nope, it was a three banger Eb that had a fabulous ...

Mary Ann

I just had the most frustrating tracking number episode! I had sent something to be fixed (Wisconsin) and the guy sent me a tracking number, finally, after I asked after, several weeks, if it was fixed. But the UPS site said it had been delivered already, to some place in Missouri. I caused a ruckus ...

Mary Ann

I made it through an hour and a half rehearsal with the woodwind quintet on horn. For me, this is a victory over dystonia -- things are not perfect but at this level they are workable. Horn is my "heart instrument" and it means so much to be able to play it again.

Mary Ann

Yesterday I played horn for two and a half hours at a rehearsal an hour north of here (8 am to 1pm total time.)
It is non-dystoning some of the time, and i have no idea why but will gratefully accept. I *was* a very good horn player.

Then I played, again as the ONLY FREAKING TUBA, in a concert band ...

Mary Ann

the problem with the post office, from having watched it from the inside via a friend lo these 20 years or so -- is micromanagement by people who have no idea whatsoever about what actually works. Consistently and repeatedly, edicts come down from above (WAY above) about how the most minute things ...

Mary Ann

The Forum Genius hath spoken.

Mary Ann

You are correct.

Mary Ann

That descriptor of "drilling" the air through a bone -- I have not played one much, but that describes how it felt to me. I don't "drill" air through a (French) horn but I support the hell out of it, in a very different way than tuba.

I'm not one of the experts here, but I would say if you are ...

Mary Ann

You mean these things? In my estimation, they're by far the best "mini tubas", although in all fairness, they're quite a bit larger than the Wessex or MW ones. Way more tuba-ish sound, much better intonation, and they don't "blow back at you". They come in BBb, CC, Eb and F.

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Maybe ...

Mary Ann

Nope but today I frightened a couple of woodwind players with the NStar on a bassoon part.

Mary Ann

When I got mine it was in fine condition and hasn't needed anything but oil since. Bought from someone on the forum who knew I was looking for an Eb, and kindly responded with this one. I now play my Norwegian Star (miraphone 283) everywhere except iffy outdoor gigs now, but the 183 isn't going ...

Mary Ann

I hope that one plays as well as mine does, and glad you like it.

Mary Ann

So if it's a pawn shop, and suspecting what happened with my $40,000 violin -- is anyone missing a 2155?

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