Lawrence, I concur! I've been a proud Alex driver for over 10 years now, I have two 103's. When my main driver needed a new lead pipe, I asked a lot of different makers at an IHS "shindig" at what kind of leadpipe I should put on it. The best advice I got was from Paul Navarro, who said put another Alex pipe on it. I did and I'm happy.
William, have you tried a MooseWood mouthpiece? Tom Greer's moutpieces slot VERY well! Tom recently sold me one of his new experiments he calls a Magnum Opus. Wow! It slots very well, and it will help me to fill a hall. Last week I was rehearsing the Dukas fanfare with the orchestra I play with and I was really happy with the sound. When we finished, some of the string players came up and complemented the horns on our sound. All of us are playing on MooseWood mouthpieces, but with various horns. The principal plays a Karl Hill, the third was absent and the fourth plays on a Kruspe. Maybe you might want to try a MooseWood before investing hundreds of bucks on a new leadpipe... Good luck finding what you want to improve your sound, Walt Lewis --- On Tue, 2/22/11, Yateslawrence <[email protected]> wrote: From: Yateslawrence <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Improvements to a Paxman 25A To: "The Horn List" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 3:02 AM Swap it for an Alex Sent from my iPhone On 22 Feb 2011, at 07:24, [email protected] wrote: > I've been trying to look around on the internet to see what improvements > can be made to my 20 year old Paxman 25A. The lacquer was removed before I > bought it and the horn does really well in the low range. The high range > isn't as great as I'd like it to be and there are some minor notchyness > issues > and intonation issues in the high range. I've got a little extra money and > so I found that Patterson can install a better leadpipe, but I'm not sure > who else does this sort of thing for Paxmans. > > I just want a few minor improvements here and there, not a huge overhaul. > Any suggestions? > > -William > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/yateslawrence%40googlemail.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/lewhorn9%40yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
