If God had meant us to attach coins to our valve levers we would still have silver dimes.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Cole Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:13 PM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Coins as lever extensions, formerly HR 1. Adds thickness to valve levers that have worn down thin -- prevents such wear on newer valve levers. 2. Provides for lengthening the levers to accommodate players with shortish fingers. 3. Gives a tactile reminder to keep the fingers appropriately arched so that the balls of the fingers are in contact with the wide parts of the valve levers. 4. Silver coins on the valve levers are w-a-a-a-a-y cool ! BTW, I always thought the de riguer part was using older coins of genuine silver (staying away from those newer, base-metal coins). If so, that pretty much rules out using USA coins dated the same as the year the horn was made, except for pre-1964 horns. Also, the way I heard it is that the date on the coins is supposed to match the birth-year of the horn player -- which also rules out USA silver coins except for folks already well into middle-age & beyond. I am not familiar with Liberty Head dimes; don't the USA horn folks usually go for Mercury dimes? (Might be 2 different names for the same thing, I don't know.) However that may be, any way you shake it silver coins are way cooler than those sissy concave finger buttons -- at least among the rank amateur horn crowd. (Don't know about the professionals, though.) -- Alan Cole, rank amateur McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 01:20 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote: >What is the purpose of these coins? > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.11/26 - Release Date: 6/22/2005 _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/bgross%40airmail.net _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
