Although I did pick up 3 tubas and a couple of leftover pieces of trombones and trumpets. John is not allowed to dump any musical instruments as someone else is suppose to take care of it but never actually comes round to do the job so there is plenty of battered instruments stockpiled in his stores.
I got round to constructing my first instrument today and learning how to weld and repair joints. This is the first attempt, a mix between a tuba, slide of a trombone and an extra trumpet bell.
Amazingly it does actually make a sound through both bells, but the slide is ridiculously hard to use as the tuba is already so awkward to hold. Ive taken a few instruments home with me today to have a play around and see how much more destruction i can create.
Apologies for the poor photos, my friend who is a practicing photographer was supposed to come up and help me take some decent shots but had to drop out at the last min due to some family problems. However we have rearranged to go up to John in the next few weeks to take some more photos.
John gave me a wonderful little handbook on how to repair brass that he has put together over the years he has been fixing instruments. I had already mentioned producing a handbook to help pupils when it comes round to building instruments in the class and this appears to a be a great source of information.
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