tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54946345716816049422024-02-20T20:23:29.037-08:00ShopNotesArticles of note from your mechanic sage, Paul.Dan Schradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17382440358839321291noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5494634571681604942.post-19074636591209539192021-01-08T10:56:00.012-08:002021-02-14T12:07:12.247-08:00German Symphony Trombone by Holton 1915<p>Here is a rare bird, a "German" trombone made by an American firm, Holton, in 1915. Some orchestra conductors in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century were asking for bigger trombone sounds to suit their tastes and literature, and nothing makes big sounds like big instruments. German-made trombones of the time, often having a wider bore and larger bell than equivalents from French, English, and American makers, thus came into use. At first, these instruments were carried to the U.S. by immigrants and copied in small numbers (ie: Lehnert, Moennig, Martin). Later, as demand increased, they were imported, branded by the maker (ie: Penzel, Heckel, Schopper) or by the distributor (Wunderlich). Without a doubt there was a growing call for this instrument, and Frank Holton Co. of Chicago would offer the type as a domestically-produced option.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHHnK9_X4ToOWY_-n-3gCoKH7t603a663W0mrJhgeR4EI0YdKp50gl7sPr9YClI9MQxx_xH1cq8Ace_Rzw0n88SXgbEOlUfB826m7vIkTTUuX9Gtje3oDc8AFKKEsotXYn6HAs0B9q0c/s2048/IMG_1555.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHHnK9_X4ToOWY_-n-3gCoKH7t603a663W0mrJhgeR4EI0YdKp50gl7sPr9YClI9MQxx_xH1cq8Ace_Rzw0n88SXgbEOlUfB826m7vIkTTUuX9Gtje3oDc8AFKKEsotXYn6HAs0B9q0c/s320/IMG_1555.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Looks like business</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Holton "Special" trombones were produced in multiple sizes, the largest, #6 "large" bore with 8-1/2 inch bell, being offered as early as 1904 (Holton Harmony Hints 1/1). These instruments were recommended as "especially well-adapted for bass trombone in band." Endorsements by members of Boston Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony are printed in Holton literature as early as 1911 (H.H.H. 8/8), encompassing tenor and bass trombonists and conductors. At that time it was claimed "The Holton German Symphony Model is the only American-made trombone that has made good in the principal symphony orchestras." L.S. Kenfield, bass trombonist of the Boston Symphony, endorses this instrument built with "F" attachment. In a 1924 Holton catalog the F attachment is listed as an option for $25.</p><p>In Exposition Year Catalog of Holton Band Instruments (1915), the "Special Symphony Model" is listed as having a #6 bore and sold for $48 in brass finish without a case. It is presumed that the present instrument is that model or a variation thereof. It is unknown what relation the "German Symphony Model" of 1911 has to this "Special Symphony Model" of 1915, but one could surmise that anti-German sentiment in the years running up to WW1 had been considered by the marketing department.</p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8C2y8HLe72UonhvUHivEbgZURUt930xJO_wBbxZZ3mwC75c1r2Dl_G2UfzWg5Amv4rVuljgSqckxL9xryUz5bqbliW9137A2U3UXnv4uGyOmhhdwUyWaeyhSpdksTFVUsg4D4PtTIgzE/s900/1906_bso_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8C2y8HLe72UonhvUHivEbgZURUt930xJO_wBbxZZ3mwC75c1r2Dl_G2UfzWg5Amv4rVuljgSqckxL9xryUz5bqbliW9137A2U3UXnv4uGyOmhhdwUyWaeyhSpdksTFVUsg4D4PtTIgzE/s320/1906_bso_10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BSO members around 1920. Carl Hampe's instrument is clearly visible;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it has a wide slide, and his right hand is resting on the tuning slide brace.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>This horn was made in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It plays in Bb, modern pitch, is built with a dual .530/.559-inch bore, and has a 9-inch lightweight bell. Abandoned from the traditional German model are the wide, floating slide, and cork barrels with springs (it is interesting to note that modern orchestral trombones have wide slides with cork barrels, and sometimes springs). A wide nickel garland on the bell is occasionally added by German makers; this horn does not have one. Also, the often-outrageous nickel snake decorations on the bell and slide bows have been dropped in favor of small knobs. Additions to the traditional model include a tuneable slide, a lead pipe/receiver, and a spit valve (in all fairness, some of these features were also appearing on German-made instruments of the time). There is no bell nut or slide lock; you must hold the horn together with your left hand at all times.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOZMV3cX6IbRV7yDbqKa-TISEob1bjKw6hnvrazENfBPA2fROrxzs11rXOibg872CP5iPgQv1sdC8lA3g7bJm-XpLMeopTTU1uarkGs7li44x4Yy-F2daDHU_C9Ljd9WY6wkGEg7ugvI/s2048/IMG_1553.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOZMV3cX6IbRV7yDbqKa-TISEob1bjKw6hnvrazENfBPA2fROrxzs11rXOibg872CP5iPgQv1sdC8lA3g7bJm-XpLMeopTTU1uarkGs7li44x4Yy-F2daDHU_C9Ljd9WY6wkGEg7ugvI/s320/IMG_1553.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjenHshO_iTAEZPcEfAFPo2sANayzrZ-Y40fUcHhtnrx9DLWtylT3XDqu7u4OejffURD0_EswKyMEMxZ34Hoehlo8VPzF3VX1IhvMunzORDhm7A6m_Ox_rwxJTc1Fdqrzm0W8XOgRAKGt0/s2048/IMG_1557.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjenHshO_iTAEZPcEfAFPo2sANayzrZ-Y40fUcHhtnrx9DLWtylT3XDqu7u4OejffURD0_EswKyMEMxZ34Hoehlo8VPzF3VX1IhvMunzORDhm7A6m_Ox_rwxJTc1Fdqrzm0W8XOgRAKGt0/s320/IMG_1557.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">no snakes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSepy3UYL9AFf_m13LkqyhHl6axehAMBT6P7ZmUMwExEcVTH6m1-VsmEUu05FEdlZbXFg34UTvC3PXTU_P08mGODQ2eiW3VlmAPgDOGh4n4gMXZ_5qnGtq3O9HqvbuoVO8yNMrAt0w3pI/s2048/IMG_1628.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSepy3UYL9AFf_m13LkqyhHl6axehAMBT6P7ZmUMwExEcVTH6m1-VsmEUu05FEdlZbXFg34UTvC3PXTU_P08mGODQ2eiW3VlmAPgDOGh4n4gMXZ_5qnGtq3O9HqvbuoVO8yNMrAt0w3pI/s320/IMG_1628.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">snakes</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The mouthpiece is not original; it is a (fairly) modern Mirafone E56 with a medium shank. This is not the "euro" shank as found on British and Willson euphoniums; it is slightly smaller and longer, for Mirafone eufoniums. Fortunately, it seems a good match for this instrument; besides having the correct taper, it is reasonably wide and deep like you would expect of a orchestral mouthpiece.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCh7z6CSLDContWKaoTPx1GMHWBGY4bG7wn19IMUBOdsDI7T5kNCyYrrBfm9Rbko3PQUm7Qr68vsh01CvrjG9wnVT_iSfNcSq_8dNuRYtNY7hYq2mlBSt8OSozLeuf9CkW1tOoY-Td7k4/s2048/IMG_1567.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCh7z6CSLDContWKaoTPx1GMHWBGY4bG7wn19IMUBOdsDI7T5kNCyYrrBfm9Rbko3PQUm7Qr68vsh01CvrjG9wnVT_iSfNcSq_8dNuRYtNY7hYq2mlBSt8OSozLeuf9CkW1tOoY-Td7k4/s320/IMG_1567.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The slide goes in-and-out alright, I guess, for an old horn, maybe I would rate it a 5/10 for playability, and of course it could be improved with a slide job, but even then it will have one main, glaring, terrifying, fatal, flaw: it doesn't stay connected to the bell. The huge, tall, heavy, bell, with no nut, and no counterweight, and a taper that only overlaps about an inch, will. not. stay. attached. to. the. slide. You put the horn together, and it seems tight, but it's not, it slips. You screw it on tighter next time and you think it might be OK, and it comes loose. Surprise! Right before your big entrance. You have to keep your thumb on the bell brace at all times, or it falls off your shoulder KLANG onto the floor. It waggles loose while you're maneuvering the slide back in from long positions. Pick it up off your trombone stand and it closes KLINK on the slide and leaves a dent. Indeed, as I look at the slide closely I see a bunch of parallel dents, some ironed-out, extending along the top of the outer slide, from bell-position back, from this fun folding action. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX2vL2uSV90Eh8ZrFNxaq32_jQcY_5eiuo-OtNst_CA0Ech9ZI2d7td7N_uAHvj-u7UHac4Fz-qpvgIsJseGCNi_BxrcKYxoCtly7XEmL4Pcubegf3hrDMi82Pq-jRkK7EUVdiogGBNZo/s2048/IMG_1576.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX2vL2uSV90Eh8ZrFNxaq32_jQcY_5eiuo-OtNst_CA0Ech9ZI2d7td7N_uAHvj-u7UHac4Fz-qpvgIsJseGCNi_BxrcKYxoCtly7XEmL4Pcubegf3hrDMi82Pq-jRkK7EUVdiogGBNZo/s320/IMG_1576.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">left: period German slide (.551/.551); wide and long, with a generous tenon</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">right: Holton slide (.530/.559); narrow, with a dinky tenon</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>But there's more; the slide is narrow, so you have little leverage over that big bell. It hurts your entire left arm to hold the instrument; it's tipping over, pulling forward, falling apart, and hurting your wrist, and your shoulder is tired, and your thumb is going to sleep, and your fingers are cramped together so they don't get bitten, and that slide, arg. KLANK. This may be how the horn has survived for one hundred and five years; it's barely playable, really. Only by the slimmest chance it hasn't been thrown out a window.<div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvN4MMJBxdTB14189zzyuDH7ji2PKoJHwgxs3MSST5I1KH5n6X-q80x1oq1SvHGIniSQePDoPcD7s-8OJuXyHRCobufxQ7PLiKWi8vm2dUd76-6JuiiW9dOPUjY7bYInwbGQf8hyphenhyphenF5q1c/s2048/IMG_0407.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvN4MMJBxdTB14189zzyuDH7ji2PKoJHwgxs3MSST5I1KH5n6X-q80x1oq1SvHGIniSQePDoPcD7s-8OJuXyHRCobufxQ7PLiKWi8vm2dUd76-6JuiiW9dOPUjY7bYInwbGQf8hyphenhyphenF5q1c/s320/IMG_0407.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Two 1915 Holton trombones</div><div><br /></div><div>How does it play? The sound, it has it; heroic, wide, projecting, prone to over-volume. A full, robust, tenor voice. High notes are playable but precarious. Soft passages have a miraculous, airy sound when you can get the notes to speak; despite the thinness of the brass and light bracing, the huge bell seems to take a moment to start up, so it is not the most "responsive." You have to think a little ahead to play in time. And there is a panicky quality to the sound as you play louder; the instrument is resistant, so you have to play super-focused otherwise the sound get chiffy and every third note splits. It improves with practice, as usual, and certainly a more-refined mouthpiece would also help. I like to play some Wagner excerpts on a horn like this, also Mahler. When playing the Mahler 3d Symphony "sentimental" solo on a period horn (this and ACTUAL German instruments), I discovered: playing the final notes (B-b-F) you can't get the slide from seventh to fourth and then back to sixth, Etwas Drangend, without completely disrupting your face and turning it into a splat-chiff-claaaaaaam. We in 2020 are accustomed to perfect slides, but with an instrument of the time the maneuver is barely possible, mechanically; once you are in seventh you have to stay in seventh until there is a space to move. The passage must be played in positions 7-7-6. Mahler likely knew these three notes had to be played a certain way, which gave the passage a certain sound: terror, desperation, abandon, finality? What are those three notes, what do they mean? Try it this way with your modern horn (7-7-6), and you'll know something new about how it can sound. The low range is very nice on this horn, big and round, with pedal notes that are easy to fake.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrFf9Kkp1WRuVxBATy8EB42TMvat5iHOLH16rOP_MeEdq8Gmm1ASo4JtjKFU36NOmJ7ns_HsGhWpcTrDoAsRScCBEymsaHUbdJovWxm0Uzqr0LrAYkO3FDV-ZAYgRpVZzluJlQS_aewY/s2048/IMG_1579.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrFf9Kkp1WRuVxBATy8EB42TMvat5iHOLH16rOP_MeEdq8Gmm1ASo4JtjKFU36NOmJ7ns_HsGhWpcTrDoAsRScCBEymsaHUbdJovWxm0Uzqr0LrAYkO3FDV-ZAYgRpVZzluJlQS_aewY/s320/IMG_1579.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><p>This promising but rather clumsy first effort showed the way for manufacturers of post-WWI years, as Holton, Olds, King, York, Martin, and others offered large USA-built tenor instruments. Evolution took its course, and with refinements to tuning, ergonomics, and mechanics, ultimately there developed a modern American type of orchestral tenor, typified by Conn 8H and Bach 42.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieL8AK6NWKuriGJXwVZRepQe7HSI859OvsqF71gagrgwzxztM43kFwJAJfuZ2YC7MEmxHtX71Xf5QJJNRQpXRIXWdny1mQeMXj8ybIc5EX9PGGN-2aYtSwbrMM7vbYn9LXnBCS9e-evK0/s2048/IMG_1575.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieL8AK6NWKuriGJXwVZRepQe7HSI859OvsqF71gagrgwzxztM43kFwJAJfuZ2YC7MEmxHtX71Xf5QJJNRQpXRIXWdny1mQeMXj8ybIc5EX9PGGN-2aYtSwbrMM7vbYn9LXnBCS9e-evK0/s320/IMG_1575.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">left: German tenor trombone, anonymous ca. 1900</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">center: Holton Symphony, 1915</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">right: Bach/Shires 42, 1983</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiF4k3-908EK2yQOPZoP0Yfc9p7oTjRBtfmGpffttHjebqK8fJya8F-ye35QOT6gAGAdnpzq2_-wLr2p000UTU0axdIwO0U6MoxFK4iuaEXMBvIaA_DJox8BSNmKxf5cyWnvFQFaRtMVQ/s2048/IMG_1573.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiF4k3-908EK2yQOPZoP0Yfc9p7oTjRBtfmGpffttHjebqK8fJya8F-ye35QOT6gAGAdnpzq2_-wLr2p000UTU0axdIwO0U6MoxFK4iuaEXMBvIaA_DJox8BSNmKxf5cyWnvFQFaRtMVQ/s320/IMG_1573.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">left: Holton Symphony</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">right: Bach 42</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_EHqOUmpERYvrAyNJJoRt3T3ZbN1bIF41m0M8aNmACnGHbv2-hiIHzYS-HXtDOVAo3NhL-U7RbJlOSP5aKwCCXovghmpiH6GhsqdQ7y71K0JSrILaeUDRp7EwfkMK6shp3OwEBWJl6s/s512/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_EHqOUmpERYvrAyNJJoRt3T3ZbN1bIF41m0M8aNmACnGHbv2-hiIHzYS-HXtDOVAo3NhL-U7RbJlOSP5aKwCCXovghmpiH6GhsqdQ7y71K0JSrILaeUDRp7EwfkMK6shp3OwEBWJl6s/s320/unnamed.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div></div>paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176771328323931551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5494634571681604942.post-47683568848996100062020-05-30T20:33:00.000-07:002020-05-30T20:33:05.818-07:00Denver Protest May 30<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A little before the curfew started. Something is going on by the capitol involving explosions and smoking projectiles being tossed back and forth.<br />
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Confluence Park, looking North from the Speer Blvd bridge. In this view, Cherry Creek flows into South Platte River, and their respective trails converge as well. Globeville is just down the river, Auraria sprawls across the bottoms to the south, Lodo is near, as are Coors field and Broncos stadium and the Capital. Also, I25 and an old rail line. The feeling of "place" here is strong; I suspect humans have been meeting at and living in and passing through this spot for thousands of years. You can get anywhere from here; to the left is a bike trip south up the river all the way to Waterton Canyon, which connects to the Colorado Trail, Leadville, Durango, etc. Turn right here for Sterling, Ogallala, Lincoln, all points East.</div>
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A new Waterford and an old Gordon, a day at the shop working on great bikes. I am reminded that a great bike is always a great bike. What made a bike great thirty years ago still makes the same bike great today. Craftsmanship. Care. Design and proper use of materials. Hand Work, not machinery or computers. Newness doesn't make a bike great, Carbon Fiber doesn't necessarily make a great bike. Steel doesn't always make a great bike. Great bikes aren't cheap, but expensive bikes aren't always great. If you buy a great bike today it will still be a great bike in thirty years. A mediocre bike today will still be a mediocre bike in thirty years, if it lasts that long. Who wants to ride a mediocre bike for thirty years? Who among us has bought a mediocre bike thinking it was great? Who among us has sold a great bike in order to finance a new bike, only to find out the difference between "great" and "new?"<br />
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One of the good bikes that I own, all I can think about when I use it is, "stiff." When turning, "stiff." Accelerating, "stiff." Rough pavement, "stiff." Twenty miles later, "stiff." Looking at the bike, seeing the components, weighing it, you'd think "great bike." But no, merely good.</div>
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Another of my bikes at a distance looks like a third-world castoff, scraped paint, dirty tires, saggy old leather saddle, bleached and chipped bar tape. Fenders. Kickstand. Dull corroded old sidepulls. But get closer: Phil hubs, Record headset, 531 tubing, Bluemels, Brooks, Nitto, AmClassic, Chorus. And you begin to doubt the battered finish and the dirt and the corrosion. And what doesn't show, evident only after much use: perfect handling, absolutely neutral. Straight. Ride figure-eights in the parking lot no-handed. Comfortable right away, comfortable an hour later. Absolutely trustworthy and predictable, it has become my foul-weather bike that goes out for the worst, coldest, frozen and most dangerous commutes. Great bike.</div>
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A fancy expensive bike I had beat the hell out of me. Seventeen pounds of torture. Rides I couldn't wait to end. I took this machine on Triple Bypass, which turned out to be one of my worst rides ever. My opinion became that it is useful for short rides only, in dry sunny weather. It eventually cracked and went to warranty heaven. All the hype and marketing and Tour de France pedigree said it should have been a great bike, but actual use exposed it as much less. Overpriced piece of caca, good riddance.</div>
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Hmmm. What does it mean?paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176771328323931551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5494634571681604942.post-85145988423619198832019-03-13T19:37:00.000-07:002019-03-13T19:57:18.529-07:00Denver Blizzard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Don't forget, during your ride, or your workday, during heavy storms or light days, to look up and see the world unfolding around you.paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176771328323931551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5494634571681604942.post-59020078704192379522018-12-16T23:02:00.002-08:002020-10-20T20:53:27.214-07:00German-American Trombones by WunderlichHello cyclists, sorry we are off the subject again...<br />
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Both instruments are made of brass with nickel trim, typical of high-quality instruments even today. The snake decorations on the slides are traditional to German horns, as are the thin bell brass, turned stays and ferrules, large bores, floating slide brace, and the nickel bell rim and leather valve hook of the bass horn. Most of these features have been dropped from modern instruments, however the large bore continues to be standard for orchestral trombones. Both instruments have tuning slides and water keys, which are found on all modern trombones. The original mouthpieces are lost. Both horns are beautifully crafted, with seamed tubing throughout, and finely detailed; you can make out the snakes' scales, eyes and nose holes, and fangs! Wunderlich was an importer of instruments at the time but also employed immigrant workers from Germany, including the respected horn maker Carl Geyer. I do not know if these horns were imported whole or built from parts locally; the decorative styles and physical scale of the two are quite different, and they are made from different alloys, yet the snakes and waterways are identical.</div>
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The instrument on the left, a tenor trombone, is built in high pitch with a dual bore of .525/540 and an 8-inch bell. This bell is very thin and fragile and super-responsive, and the whole instrument is very lightweight. Its sound is intimate and colorful and voice-like and runs off the rails pretty quickly when pushed. I think it plays a ballad well, but it's not what I would use on Ride of the Valkyries. The slide is surprisingly good. It's fun and instructive to play at home, but I can't envision a use in the modern ensemble; it doesn't do everything well, and you struggle to keep the pitch down. Almost every component is made from rolled and brazed metal sheet, right down to the ferrules and braces and inside slide tubes. The brass (bronze?) components are oxidized to a delightful bluish brown.</div>
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A mid-80's Schwinn mountain bike, totally rebuilt multiple times. A good bike, bought new and owned by the same person all this time. Three cranksets worn out in the years I worked on it, also dozens of tires, four saddles, three forks, three wheel sets, many chains and freewheels and brake pads, etc. etc. I think not a single component was original to the bike. This rig survived numerous accidents, in weather of all types, on- and off-road, and was stolen and recovered at least once. The owner found a number of local "bike shops" who refused to work on it, who only wanted to sell him a new bike. "Too old," they said, "not worth the repair," they said, "can't get parts for it," they said. "Bull," I say. It's too bad, that kind of snobbery which is one of the things driving customers out of bike shops and onto the web. Or in some cases out of cycling entirely.</div>
paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176771328323931551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5494634571681604942.post-28505130781041674652018-02-05T07:48:00.001-08:002018-02-05T07:48:31.981-08:00New GigHey friends, I'm wrenching at REI Denver flagship now-come in with your bikes for a spring tuneup or just to say "hi."<br />
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paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176771328323931551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5494634571681604942.post-73755178795879526462017-09-29T07:23:00.001-07:002017-09-29T07:23:20.377-07:00STILL HEREYes, the shop is closed. That's a long story and maybe I'll go into it one of these posts. But I am still here, riding more than I have for years, working on my house, driving the kids around, traveling some, playing my trombone, working on my bikes, looking for the next Big Deal. And maybe now writing again. Stay tuned, cheers!paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176771328323931551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5494634571681604942.post-61103806656382000982016-02-13T10:51:00.001-08:002016-02-13T10:51:54.269-08:00Charlie White Great CyclistCharlie rode 36,875 miles in 2015. I know this because I repaired his bike constantly during the achievement. I know this also because I have seen his calendar. And because I've been watching his cyclometer. Also because he wrote his numbers on a piece of paper which I have right here. This on an nondescript hybrid bike, his only bike.<br />
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Thirty-six thousand eight hundred seventy-five miles. In 2015.<br />
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Average daily 101.03<br />
One day off all year<br />
Best day 187<br />
Worst day .25<br />
Best week 985<br />
Best month October 4110<br />
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This is the highest yearly number among all the cyclists I know, or have known, or of all the twenty thousand or so lesser bicycles I have worked on.<br />
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Charlie was killed while riding January 30, 2016.<br />
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So the long ride comes to an end. Rest in peace, my friend.<br />
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Thanks Appliance Center, Thanks DrCOG, Thanks Snikiddy and JB Importers and Breezer, Thanks Ed and Peach and Henry!</div>
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WOW what a show. Beautiful bikes made the best way, by hand one at a time.</div>
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Steampunk special. Enlarge the picture and check the detail: hydraulic routing, rewired lamp, neat fender attachment.</div>
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Historic American racing bicycle.</div>
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Neat lugs.</div>
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Another wooden bike.</div>
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Apprentice #2</div>
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Paul's Cyclery Mobile One in the foreground. The horizon is not slanted, I am leaning into the wind and barely able to stand at times. We are all going slowly mad.</div>
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High in the Medicine Bow range, Aid Station 3.</div>
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Look closely, this isn't something you are likely to see every day. Touch the picture to get a closeup. TWO twin-tube bike frames in the same picture, a Colnago (Italian) from late 90's and a Mecacycle (French) from mid-80's. The Colnago is glued carbon with aluminum lugs, fancy and classy and probably rides great. All those glued joints, though are showing their age. The Mecacycle is handmade fillet-brazed steel (Vitus probably) which from a distance looks like just another old black beater, but up close shows the work of a master welder.</div>
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<br />paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176771328323931551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5494634571681604942.post-35895359330552597222012-02-20T10:24:00.000-08:002012-02-20T11:16:36.057-08:00Evolution<div>One of the things I like:</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzGsUgOvuCSSKHNqL0e329E8C26UiB3P4M4hyphenhyphenxCN-vu5K5y7KH7TRAVDuinB2xvqiBNbqG2gZyzh0bhGw0ty74VXmqYAqwLrxAW4_fEcIM8neAyAzb07XrbKWGZDlm2_bRWuU4WLbP728/s1600/IMG_0390.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzGsUgOvuCSSKHNqL0e329E8C26UiB3P4M4hyphenhyphenxCN-vu5K5y7KH7TRAVDuinB2xvqiBNbqG2gZyzh0bhGw0ty74VXmqYAqwLrxAW4_fEcIM8neAyAzb07XrbKWGZDlm2_bRWuU4WLbP728/s400/IMG_0390.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711287991216903746" /></a><div><div><div>Two Fine Bicycles in the Park double workstand. Handmade frames built thirty years apart, both lugged steel, at about the highest-possible level.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Waterford has oversized tubing and a threadless headset, matched new components carefully selected for the intended use, not a scratch anywhere, and I predict will be a great bike. The Gordon has standard tubing and a threaded headset, mismatched scrounged parts carefully selected for the intended use, scratches and dents everywhere, and IS a great bike.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's another comparison:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zCm3Dffvxg6rJXDQwq2jUKr9GJPhEOIZV-TmATzCo7MLIKzk7n9XNTAvI-KIMgK-r1NJH7mFW1E5pEy-yogC-NvN5Xkbb15U7fgrrZ1kwvd2In6aHX-T6WipwU6Ummj34A6Vkl2BFSc/s1600/IMG_0756.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zCm3Dffvxg6rJXDQwq2jUKr9GJPhEOIZV-TmATzCo7MLIKzk7n9XNTAvI-KIMgK-r1NJH7mFW1E5pEy-yogC-NvN5Xkbb15U7fgrrZ1kwvd2In6aHX-T6WipwU6Ummj34A6Vkl2BFSc/s400/IMG_0756.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711285798158267938" /></a><div>Two brand-new 2011 model Masi bicycles. The black one is a product of selective breeding, having been built in the traditional steel-with-lugs style but in the more modern format of oversized tubing. The white carbon one is the result of punctuated equilibrium, springing from the sea-change of Carbon Fiber Mass Production. Again, both very good bicycles, but illustrating a dramatic branching of the evolutionary thread.</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176771328323931551noreply@blogger.com0