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Author: jhamm
Date: 2018-11-07 23:48
This is a fascinating trail. I was fortunate enough to study with Mr. Gigliotti from 1974 to 1980. In 1976, he picked out a 10G Bb serial number Y9892 and an A serial number Z7399 for me. I remember that Mark Jacobi was involved in the purchase, but the details are unclear. I also have a Gigliotti AG P mouthpiece and his ligature (yes, I drank all the Kool-Aid). I loved the feel and the sound of those instruments, but as a high school and college student, I was pretty naive and unsophisticated.
I did not pursue music as a career, and I basically did not play at all from 1980 to 2010, when I was conned into playing in the pit orchestra for a middle school musical production. Although the instruments were 30 years old, relatively speaking they had hardly been played. I had them fixed by a local shop in Connecticut, where I live, making them playable, but only just.
I have rediscovered the joy of playing, and as my real job winds down, I have been doing much more of it. Wanting to see if he could refurbish my instruments, I actually tracked Mark Jacobi down about 3 years ago at his Philadelphia home and shop on South Carlisle St, but after an initial contact, he never returned my calls.
I am more acutely aware of pitch problems with the horns now than I was in HS and college-whether that is because I am a more mature musician, or because of an inherent problem with these instruments (the post-production work detailed above was enlightening), or is the result of the half-baked refurbishment is not clear to me.
So my questions are:
1) Is it worth trying to refurbish these instruments?
2) Any recommendations about who should do it?
3) Any thoughts about the serial numbers on the instruments?
4) For the most part, they play sharp, except for the throat tones, which are flat-would there be a role for trying a new barrel? Whose?
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