In a message dated 6/30/2007 1:50:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello, more important than all the outside packing is it, to prevent the heavier valve section to rip off the body of the horn. To do so, you place a 4 x 2" piece of 0,5" thick moss rubber or other semi-hard & semi-soft piece between lower side of the valve section & the tuning slide on the back of the horn, some other wrapping material (airbubble sheet = usual packing mterial for fragile things) where you can squeeze it between horn & case inside & on top of the horn & the sides of the bell. -- Hans's advice is invaluable. You must suspend the valve section. Then prevent other moving around and bumping into things or the case. Make sure the latches cannot come undone easily, and wrap it with a luggage strap. See Doug Yeo's website regarding what he does for his trombone, as well as the picture of his trombone case laying on the tarmac, fifteen feet below where it was supposed to be entered into the airplane's cargo hold. Ouch. (Spoiler alert: there's a happy ending.) _www.yeodoug.com_ (http://www.yeodoug.com) Dave Weiner Brass Arts Unlimited ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
