Away for a bit

[Pete Thomas]

I shall be off to the Frankfurtmesse for a few days, so I may be a bit quiet on here, don't know whether I get a connection at my hotel yet.

Anyone else going to be there? Spike?

 

[PaulyT]

Have a safe journey and have fun!
Paul

 

[old_git]

Enjoy!

 

[frankb]

...for a bit of what? :?

Or shouldn't we ask?!! 😱


Enjoy it anyway!

 

[Semiquaver]

Will you still be monitoring?

Can we say arse more than once?

 

[Pete Thomas]

Semiquaver wrote:
Will you still be monitoring?

Can we say arse more than once?

I might and no you may not.

 

[Semiquaver]

Ok.

Have a good time, don't spend too much money.

I am sure they will have a good guitar section. Lets hope it is not too sparse with things to buy and if you are driving don't spill anything on your car seats.

 

[Jules]

Not me- but Jim and Phil from my lot will be....

 

[Linky Lee]

Spike is ""in die Naehe", so I imagine he may pop along. I'd love to go but I'm saving funds for an Oktoberfest outing this year.

 

[Bobby G]

Whatever you're doing Pete I hope you enjoy it. I promise to be good just in case you're watching.

 

[andrew_sanders]

Tschuss
Bis spater (where's the umlaut?)

 

[suethesax]

Have lots of fun.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Not sure about fun, my feet are killing me - I couldn't believe how massive this Messe is.

It was very nice to meet Benedikt Eppeslheim, I just had to buy one of his beautiful contrabass tubaxes.

I was very impressed with Rampone & Calzone. One of the P.Mauriat tenors is now officially the best tenor I've ever played (sorry Hanson). A very nice Vietnamese sopranino too and a strange Chines alto with new pad design (pics to follow).

NOT impressed with Cannonball or Francois Louis ligatures.

 

[Saxlicker]

oh-noooooo!!!! 😡

Pete why did you have to go and big up the PMauriat?

I have liked the thought of owning one since Sax.co.uk opened in the new premises.
But until now, it was just a vague twinkle. Now I definately need to test drive one.

P.S. hide this thread from Bob or he'll be robbing Doreen 😛

 

[griff136]

I can confirm what Pete has mentioned

like his feet mine were sore too - I was also at the Messe and managed to track Pete down.

I loved the PMauriat unlacquered tenor.

I also met Jody Espina (Jody Jazz mouthpieces) and we ordered a starter set (altos and tenors ebonite and metal) so watch this space for details - they will be on sale at John Myalls in Croydon.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Oh yes, I forgot to say how nice it was to meet Griff - we didn't get a chance to hang out much. I was there with a non saxophone hat (business meetings with Apple software people, but you don't want to know about that).

Not all Mauriats are that good - don't just go and buy one.

I tried some Jodyjazz mouthpieces. Probably a bad time as I was asked by someone on the stand to play it outside. :laugh: Very good mouthpiece but not for me.