Re: [Hornlist] Booze
Does it have to be scotch? I prefer a Jim Beam Manhattan, up, with three cherries. m now I'm thirsty. Happy thoughts, Chris - Original Message - From: Alexandre Grand-Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Horn List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Booze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hornfolk,I have been advised to pour Scotch (booze) down into a sluggish valve. Anyone ever try this,and would it harm the horn? Did it work? Comments,please! Tried it once. Horn sang like never before, but was in foul mood following day. Alex ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/cbonner%40swfla.rr.com ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Booze
Whoa, that's my drink, although I'm satisfied with 1 or 2 cherries. I have to admit though, a Maker's Mark mannhatty is pretty smooth too. Chris --- Christopher Bonner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it have to be scotch? I prefer a Jim Beam Manhattan, up, with three cherries. m now I'm thirsty. Happy thoughts, Chris - Original Message - From: Alexandre Grand-Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Horn List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Booze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hornfolk,I have been advised to pour Scotch (booze) down into a sluggish valve. Anyone ever try this,and would it harm the horn? Did it work? Comments,please! Tried it once. Horn sang like never before, but was in foul mood following day. Alex ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/cbonner%40swfla.rr.com ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/tedesccj%40yahoo.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Booze
chuckling My, my, my! Shall we keep track of how many drinks e-mails we're able to toss back and forth on this nose to the grindstone no other topic except horns list? It's amazing how, when a topic is interesting to us, we tolerate it. But let another musician talk about a topic that we don't enjoy, and the negative condemnations pour in. Chris Tedesco wrote: Whoa, that's my drink, although I'm satisfied with 1 or 2 cherries. I have to admit though, a Maker's Mark mannhatty is pretty smooth too. Chris --- Christopher Bonner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it have to be scotch? I prefer a Jim Beam Manhattan, up, with three cherries. m now I'm thirsty. Happy thoughts, Chris - Original Message - From: Alexandre Grand-Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Horn List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Booze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hornfolk,I have been advised to pour Scotch (booze) down into a sluggish valve. Anyone ever try this,and would it harm the horn? Did it work? Comments,please! Tried it once. Horn sang like never before, but was in foul mood following day. Alex ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/cbonner%40swfla.rr.com ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/tedesccj%40yahoo.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/whetmore%40bellsouth.net ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Booze
Oh, that's making me thirsty. Too bad for me that I had already consumed my total lifetime capacity by the time I was 45 years old, eh? -- Alan Cole, rank amateur McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA. At 10:08 AM 12/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: Ach, Laddies Lassies... I suggest that if ye gootta flush out the valves ya be fugal and use a cheap Scotch such as Dewers on the valves and use the Glenlivet in your valves... lol...no, I've not been at the Glenlivet this am...just my whacked sense of humor... I read once on the back of an album cover where Dennis Brain and Alan Civil would lubricate their horns after a gig with a pint of stout from the local pub. That is a tradition that I like to observe whenever possible! I usually like to go to a microbrewery where they have 27 different varieties on tap. Walt Lewis Lake St. Clair Symphony (St. Clair Shores, Michigan) Grosse Pointe Symphony (Grosse Pointe, Michigan) Warren Concert Band (Warren, Michigan) Warren Cultural Commission ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Booze
Pouring Scotch down a horn player will make the player sluggish, so why do you think it would improve the valve? Seems like a waste of Scotch to me. John Baumgart - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Horn List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:10 PM Subject: [Hornlist] Booze Hornfolk,I have been advised to pour Scotch (booze) down into a sluggish valve. Anyone ever try this,and would it harm the horn? Did it work? Comments,please! ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/baumgart%40chicagonet.net ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Booze
In a message dated 12/2/2003 5:25:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hornfolk,I have been advised to pour Scotch (booze) down into a sluggish valve. Anyone ever try this,and would it harm the horn? Did it work? After giving this some thought, I decided to make a serious reply. The active ingredient here is alcohol. Alcohol will act as a solvent on some substances and will eventually evaporate. I would think that you'd have to pour in an awful lot of Scotch to cut enough gunk and flush out the horn. You'd better be drinking the cheap stuff. This would have to be followed up with a thorough oiling to lubricate the valves again and protect them from corrosion. There are other alcohols that are more effective as solvents, especially denatured alcohol. But these alcohols have harmful vapors. Avoid them. I have tried alcohol as a solvent and cleaner in the shop, and it does not work well. It only dissolves oils, at best. Lime and scale are not affected. This can only be a temporary fix. The alcohol can't possibly harm the metal, all by itself. Nor can it dissolve many of the kinds of substances that will slow your valves. I would not recommend this. Get your horn cleaned at the shop, instead. Dave Weiner Brass Arts Unlimited ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Booze
In a message dated 02/12/2003 22:43:55 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pouring Scotch down a horn player will make the player sluggish I beg to differ. When I pour scotch down myself it improves my playing no end - why, things I wouldn't dare tackle sober I can play effortlessly! Everything I do sounds wonderful, I become intelligent, interesting, handsome...I have trouble walking I admit, but this is but a little price to pay. Funny though, the recordings always sound, well, a little bit strange - funny eh? All the best, Lawrence ...Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg... http://lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Booze
On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 05:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hornfolk,I have been advised to pour Scotch (booze) down into a sluggish valve. Anyone ever try this,and would it harm the horn? Did it work? Comments,please! ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/pmansur%40bellsouth.net Scotch is about half grain alcohol. Alcohol is a good solvent to dissolve grease and oil. Voila! Eureka! etc. Kerosene and white gasoline and naphtha are also solvents. What to do, what to do? Mansur's Answers ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
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Don't drink any kerosene, white gasoline, naphtha.-AC. Scotch is about half grain alcohol. Alcohol is a good solvent to dissolve grease and oil. Voila! Eureka! etc. Kerosene and white gasoline and naphtha are also solvents. What to do, what to do? Mansur's Answers ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
RE: [Hornlist] Booze
Paul Mansur wrote: Scotch is about half grain alcohol. That's true only for blended Scotch as single malts don't contain grain alcohol. I'm looking forward to a wee dram of Highland Park 18 after practicing tonight. Cheers, Steven Ovitsky www.sotone.com ___ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
