I had been having difficulty with a developed wolf note (note that didn't want to speak-- a quiet wolf!), the high F#. I spent daily practice time trying to get this note to speak.
Rachel advised me to check my bumper settings and also to clean the horn. In my case, water pressure cleaning did the trick and the F# now plays like the rest of the notes. So, thanks, Rachel. I will no longer need to humbly ask my colleagues to play my exposed passages with the pesky F#'s. More etilolgy on the specific culprit: the cleaning yielded a slightly white gelatinous mixture of valve oil, slide grease and water emulsion that exited the bell. So, the material was likely lodged in the main horn tubing section that connects the valves. This is where some of the valve oil-slide grease mixture migrates over time. The valve slides may have had the material, too, but I didn't get to see what exited the slides. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
