Re: Re: Helicon Help Needed


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Posted by js on May 19, 2003 at 00:34:44:

In Reply to: Re: Helicon Help Needed posted by JohnD on May 18, 2003 at 10:30:15:

Ask a qualified repairman (Lee Stofer, etc.) to acquire longer sections of inside-outside slide tubing needed to lengthen your main tuning slide. The slide itself may have to be angled out a bit in order to not collide with the last body branch which curves up vertically into the valve section, but it might not collide anyway. (I can't tell from your picture.) P.S. I own the EEb "sister" to your instrument. The EEb is fantastic. It was a "Pioneer Youth" instrument, and has its original hard case.

If this is a "high-pitch" instrument (over 50/100 of a semitone higher than A=440), you'll have a problem because the main tuning slide will have to be lengthened CONSIDERABLE on a BBb instrument.

Joe "Don't lengthen the mouthpipe, unless it is too short to meet up properly with your face." S.


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