We got it all stuck together by about 1:00 in the morning. Tomorrow I have until 4:00 in the afternoon to get it cleaned up and to spray the weird gold stuff on it.
I've already got the slides fitted in the valves in it and working, so that's all I really have left to do. I think I'm going to make it. It's sort of amazing that I got all this crap done before I was headed over that way to play a concert.
This one had three cracks in the second branch and a bunch of solder joints were apart in the valve section and all the upper return bows were smashed.
All three of these were a huge challenge.
sent off repair quotes for those three "King gold lacquer" UMI-era Conn 20K sousaphones
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Re: sent off repair quotes for those three "King gold lacquer" UMI-era Conn 20K sousaphones
All three are done and packed in the back of the Toyota Matrix with quilts. My euphonium is also back there. I don't know how I did it but I got the Miraphone 98 in its case in the front passenger seat in the door closed.
I can get the car in 5th gear.
I can get the car in 5th gear.