Tech/maintenance SHWoodwind Updates

[saxyjt]

Epplesheim is in Munich... You might not find it so difficult.

Oh well, so far all I've seen of Munich is Terminal 2 and the suburban train to catch my train to Oystereich, by the sea!

I've never seen a bass saw in my life's let alone an Epplesheim!

 

[Stephen Howard]

Just a bit of a teaser...
Working on a new investigative article...whaddya reckon's going on here...?

 

[vries1]

A test of 5 magic solutions to blacken an oxidised vintage mouthpiece

 

[Pete Thomas]

Leave them like that, come back the next morning and see if they changed places during the night.

 

[Halfers]

No.4 is the odd one out.

 

[Pete Thomas]

No.4 is the odd one out.

As opposed to no.3?

 

[vries1]

Maybe apply the sound trainer. Play music you like at high volume for 168h continuously, that’ll teach’em !!

 

[Vetinari]

No4 is facing left the others right

 

[vries1]

Yeah my vote for the odd one also would have been #3 but we don’t want to hurt our fellow single-reed players feelings do we

 

[vries1]

players’ (sorry)

 

[Halfers]

As opposed to no.3?

Very opposed to it, by the looks of it. Alternatively, it might have fallen out with No 5

 

[vries1]

Off-topic paradise !

 

[Stephen Howard]

A test of 5 magic solutions to blacken an oxidised vintage mouthpiece

Now that would be an interesting test. Not sure it can be done though - but there is a trick that can improve matters....

 

[Stephen Howard]

No.4 is the odd one out.

Aha! Well spotted! But is it of any special significance...?

 

[vries1]

Now that would be an interesting test. Not sure it can be done though - but there is a trick that can improve matters....

The other test would be, how fast do mouthpiece oxidate under high UV exposure? With the summer coming up and all.

 

[Halfers]

Aha! Well spotted! But is it of any special significance...?

I don't think the logical mind of a technician such as yourself would place it like that without reason.

 

[Wonko]

They all look like used mouthpieces, different models, even one that looks like a clarinet piece .....
So possibly testing something that has to do with the use they have endured, weathering, damage ……

 

[Vetinari]

No4 plastic? The others rubber

 

[Stephen Howard]

No4 plastic? The others rubber

Nope, they're all rubber (ebonite)

 

[vries1]

Right, that’s why I thought it was an experiment around oxidation. Fix it ... or accelerate it!