East Coast trip: Piggy acquired

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Re: East Coast trip: Piggy acquired

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LeMark wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2024 8:32 am Just a little historical footnote here.

When I bought my 601 in 2013, it had couple of patches on the leadpipe. I ordered a new nickel silver leadpipe from cerveny, had it bent to better fit my height, and installed it.

It was terrible. The horn lost it's sweet sound and intonation got worse. I compared the two with a calpier and found the taper was dramatically different between the two. The new pope opened up a lot faster than the old one and then more or less turned cylindrical.

After suffering for a while with the new pipe I took it off and put the old one back, even with the (well done) patches.
Thanks for the warning. I will be sure to measure and check. I would hate to mess with the intonation of this Piggy, because it has the best of any Piggy I've played.


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I have one of those 1980s or 1990s fancy little Cerveny badges on one of my Jacob Winter cases, just in case you'd like an anti-theft device.

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bloke wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 7:44 pm I have one of those 1980s or 1990s fancy little Cerveny badges on one of my Jacob Winter cases, just in case you'd like an anti-theft device.

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