#repair notes

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Was gonna post on valentines but whateves

(Yes I sneaked my yume ships in this as well what y'all gonna do about it...)

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Repair Notes: 1923 York No. 2 Trumpet-Model Cornet

I made the first of these posts like 9 months ago and never got around to writing any more (with this one just sitting, barely started, in my drafts), let’s fix that.

The next interesting instrument to pass through the shop after that Getzen Frumpet was this rather lovely long-model cornet by J.W. York and Sons in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  From what I know, this one one of those situations of an instrument sitting around and planned to be used by a beginning trumpet student, which is really less than what this one deserves.  It was in really good shape overall, including the original case and accessories, and beginning brass players aren’t known for being the most careful (though I hope they prove me wrong).  Being in such good shape, it just needed a chemflush and polishing.

(Catalog page source)

Design-wise, this is very much an example of the long cornet concept that was gaining traction as the trumpet entered the mainstream in US ensembles of the 1920s.  Though it has the classic 720 degrees of curved tubing in the wrap that almost every cornet follows, this design does so with a relatively small loop for the main tuning slide, giving it similar proportions to a modern C trumpet (and indeed, I’d hazard a guess that the C-Bb-A versions, the 4 and 5, achieved C with a main slide that cut off that loop).  It was in York’s “Finish C”, which the 1925 catalog describes as being a frosted silver-plate finish with burnished accents and bell interior, with the bell interior gold-plated.  Interestingly, it only mentions pearl-inlaid finger buttons, though this also has small inlays on each of the valve slide draw knobs (which was fun to handle in the chemflush).

I love early 1900s cornets so I was already was going to be biased towards this, but I even more excited by this one because my personal cornet is a 1921 York Perfec-tone No. 9, which was York’s first foray into the long cornet concept.  It was actually advertised originally as the “Long Model or Trumpet-Cornet”, with the No. 2-5 series apparently taking its place as the most trumpet-like cornet.  While I wasn’t able to try the two side-by-side, the No. 2 was definitely the more trumpet-like of the two, including in terms of what mouthpiece was provided with it.

This is a bit rambling and I don’t really know what else I wanna talk about (partly without revealing those photos of my cleaned-up Perfec-tone), so have some before and detail photos.  Two other fun design things it has can seen in the disassembled photo.  The first is the integrated Bb-A stop system, basically having a little stocking on the lower tube of the Bb-A slide and a screw to clamp down the outer sleeve. The other one is also on the Bb-A slide, being its reverse tuning slide design.  With the upper outer sleeve being the part moving with main slide, the inner slide can be an extension of the tapered leadpipe, allowing for fewer compromises in the overall taper.

From a repair tech perspective, the water key springs were rather annoying to access without risking the finish, specifically on the main tuning slide where the little draw knob/handle got in the way substantially.  Gotta find myself some good pointy side cutters…

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New oc alert

Yes she's a selfship oc for gabby

Yes they have a ship name (it's repair notes)

And yes I'm still thinking for her backstory

Also I'm declaring myself as the first gabby selfshipper

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HAPPY VALENTINES!!!

Also happy third anniversary to dialtown <333

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LOOK AT WHAT CALLUM DRAWN FOR MEE 🥹🥹🥹🥹

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More on my oc mery-belle!

Backstory:

Born and raised in London, she was raised in upper middle class in a pretty big house with her older brother and parents, when in nursery she met Mr dickens (or Ebenezer known then) and they became childhood friends and grown up with each other , they never had a relationship tho, mery never felt attracted to men she known that ever since she was in her teen years but ofc she had to keep it a secret, it was taboo and unacceptable back then so ofc she just had to act like she didn't want to date anyone and wasn't into that romance stuff (either way she was teased..) I mean she did date a few guys but all those relationships was short lived (the longest was up to a YEAR) but moving forward she moved to dialtown with Mr dickens with dreams of becoming a journalist she dreamed of being one since she was little since she wanted to be like her idol Marla crown (yk due to how she did journaling n stuff), eventually she got a her dream job! And while she looked she met the love of her life.. Gabby they met in a bar through anthnoy, they got close fast and then.. Got closer and closer and you pretty much get it since she's a selfship for gabby, now she lives on finding new stories and caring for gabby to help with her shop sometimes

Personality:

Sweet, quite bubbily,soft, she's a quite the angel to be around <3

Relationships:

Fun facts about her:

-she MAY or MAY NOT have a crush on Marla (yk how someone would have a celebrity crush n all)

-she like grapes

-her birthday is November 20th

-her and gabby are married!! They were married for 20 years

-she has a chow chow dog named rosey

-the hat she wears is inherited from her mother

Anyways thats all about her :3 if you wanna know more ask!

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Okay so I've been apprenticing/interning/something at my local instrument repair shop these past few months, and I thought it'd be cool to share some of the more interesting instruments I've come across there. Hopefully this rate of interesting stuff will keep up for posts like this...

First up, we have this c.1976 Getzen Frumpet that belongs to a local school district, which is honestly in surprisingly nice shape. For those unaware, the Frumpet was designed in the '70s by Getzen as a marching instrument for horn players, with a trumpet-like wrap and receiver for a standard horn mouthpiece. This was right around the time the mellophonium and mellophone bugle were being used as inspiration for such an instrument for school bands, the main one I can think of being the Olds A-42 (introduced c.1973). The A-42 was stenciled and copied by many companies, including into the present day. The Frumpet... wasn't. I've always heard the intonation on it was bad, but in all honesty, the pitch standard was a much bigger issue - I needed the main slide about 2/3 of the way out to get to A=440. This one had the Eb slide as well, which was nice, and mechanically it was a really solid instrument, but still... whatever poor high schooler got to use it, I'm sorry. Legitimately though, despite being a roughly 45 year old school marching instrument, this one was in near-perfect shape, the only issue being a cracked outer sleeve on the main tuning slide, which really only very slightly limited the extent to which it could be pulled out:

Upcoming instruments should hopefully play better than this one...

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I love yuri..

I’m literally gabby’s wife chat if you say anything I will find you