On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 02:32 PM, Curiousart@a... wrote:
> bill sez:
>
>> i play (in a very amateur fashion) saxophone, and have
> always justified the continual pursuit and capture of vintage
> saxophones in the wild (along with their spoor, mouthpieces and
> ephemera) with "well, i need one for practicing at home and one for
> practicing at work".
>
> Hooboy, as if you didn't have a problem before!
>
> For those who don't know, saxophonists are every bit as obsessively 
> geeky as
> us galoots. They hang out on breaks endlessly discussing saxophone 
> minutia,
> putting every non saxophonist in earshot into a deep sleep. They show 
> each
> other publicity photos of famous jazz saxophonists while shouting 
> things like
> "No, no, you idiot! Can't you see he's clearly using an Otto Link
> mouthpiece?! *That's* how he gets his sound!" They even have the 
> equivilent
> of obsessive sole lapping where they will spend hours flattening the 
> spot
> where the reed contacts the metal mouthpiece on a piece of sandpaper 
> fixed to
> plate glass.
>
> Welcome to the list, you poor bahstid......

no, no, art, i'll be a poor bahstid in a few months, right?  remember, 
i still don't have any stanley planes...lol.

as for the instrument obsession, i've suffered from GAS (Gear 
Acquisition Syndrome) for the past five years, but recently have gotten 
it under control...really, i have.  no, i mean it, ok?  ok, well, 
mostly under control.  ok, well, mostly just too busy, but given the 
opportunity i POUNCE....sorry, sorry, *whew*.  trembling.  must go home 
and search for a bonade tenor sax ligature on ebay...or decide if that 
buescher "new aristocrat" in silver is going to be my work alto...

actually, when i was also buying and selling vintage trumpets and other 
brasswinds for a local shop (and to make a bit of money for my habit, 
er, my accumulative need) i ran into paddy odeen on the tpin list, when 
he was the original benge nut.  does he still hang out here?

rotc:  anyone can tell me if there's an ohio tools site that shows the 
older block planes?  i think i have one.  pictures soon.

bill
santa cruz, ca

just say you'll call back later when i can talk about it.