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My $45 FB Buffet is on the way home!

Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2001-07-26 00:54

I've been waiting 5 1/2 months for the horn to be all finished up. (Don't ever tell a tech to "take all the time you need to get it right" unless you really mean it!) It will go into the mail on Monday and be in my hands Tuesday.

I'm not sure getting a horn in a swap meet like this is as economical as it could be. When all is said and done this horn will have cost around $700 including the new barrel and the new mouthpiece. The tech and her horn tester spent an afternoon matching the horn with barrels and mouthpieces to get the best set-up they could find to send out with the horn. The tech says it has a gorgeous tone and <b>now</b> is dead nuts on in tune. She had to undercut a tone hole to fix a stuffy note... this is done by hand with a <I>little</I> knife, I didn't realize you could tweak horns one note at a time.

I think this would have been too much of a gamble to have pulled off if it hadn't been a FB. I am looking forward to the next month of getting ready on this horn for fall semester orchestra at the local Jr. College!

Anyone else out there crazy enough to try this kind of thing?

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