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Fishslayer
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Too bad ya don't have something like ... oh... I don't know... a Taurus... laying around you could trade. Then ya could do both! :evilgrin:
Seriously, I vote horn. If you get a S&W revolver first you'll just get hooked & somehow the $$$ for the horn will never be there.
Seriously, I vote horn. If you get a S&W revolver first you'll just get hooked & somehow the $$$ for the horn will never be there.
deadin
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So was I. (20 years US Navy Musician) When you are on a ship in the Western Pacific and the salt air has rotted out your pads, there weren't any instrument repair shops around and the supply locker never seemed to have any extra horns in stock.
Of course we did have a repair kit that had most of the stuff needed for maintenance. (tools, pads, cork, springs, etc.)
Maybe I should brush up on my skills, sounds like instrument repair has gotten more lucrative since I was active in the 60's and 70's.
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captorquewrench
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So was I. (20 years US Navy Musician) When you are on a ship in the Western Pacific and the salt air has rotted out your pads, there weren't any instrument repair shops around and the supply locker never seemed to have any extra horns in stock.
Of course we did have a repair kit that had most of the stuff needed for maintenance. (tools, pads, cork, springs, etc.)
Maybe I should brush up on my skills, sounds like instrument repair has gotten more lucrative since I was active in the 60's and 70's.
My tech is in a 120 horn backlog. Most things he does for me while I wait, no charge, but this is too big a job.
Navy bands...I can't think of them without thinking of Randy Purcell from Maynard's band. I miss them both.
Ok no one else said it...BOTH...cause they both make sweet music 
...ok sophmoric comments aside...fix the horn then like another poster said pick up one of the trade-ins that are surfacing now-a-days....good luck to you.
...ok sophmoric comments aside...fix the horn then like another poster said pick up one of the trade-ins that are surfacing now-a-days....good luck to you.
Fishslayer
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The gunsmith I use has a 3 month backlog.
Some trades are flourishing if one is good at it. The recent (& some not so recent) downward trends in quality are good for some segments of the economy...
ol' geeser
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My younger son's "pink lady" took him to and thru SMU, Europe a couple of times, and fed him when times got tough for him....fix the sax and use the proceeds from a lite gig or two for the pistol....
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captorquewrench
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Yeah, but a gun can stop someone else from draining your wallet.
As usual, the Godfather has the answer to all things, " Leave the gun, take the canoli, err... sax".
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Hijacking merrily away, how in the heck do kids, these days, afford to join band.
In 1966 my folks bought my brother's Olds trumpet at a pawn shop for 40 bucks. In 68 they bought my Conn clarinet, used, for 50.
Long about 80 I gave some thought to buying a sax, just to see if I could play it. Theoretically, if I can play a licorice stick I can play a sax. But they were around 400 bucks, and that was too much to just play with.
Now captorquewrench says it cost 450 just to pad one. Dayum. What's a horn cost? I google Student Saxophone. The cheap, student instruments, are four and five THOUSAND dollars.
She asked me about my horn - if it was a Fuller. I'd never heard of Fuller. I found one, though, while looking at saxes. Three thousand eight hundred dollars.
I was looking at a flute, at a flea market. Same as with the sax, I kinda wanta know if I could. If it had been fifty bucks I'd have bought it, but it was a hundred, which was too much, and it had a few broken pads. Glad I didn't get it, if it would have cost a couple of hundred bucks to repad it.
In 1966 my folks bought my brother's Olds trumpet at a pawn shop for 40 bucks. In 68 they bought my Conn clarinet, used, for 50.
Long about 80 I gave some thought to buying a sax, just to see if I could play it. Theoretically, if I can play a licorice stick I can play a sax. But they were around 400 bucks, and that was too much to just play with.
Now captorquewrench says it cost 450 just to pad one. Dayum. What's a horn cost? I google Student Saxophone. The cheap, student instruments, are four and five THOUSAND dollars.
She asked me about my horn - if it was a Fuller. I'd never heard of Fuller. I found one, though, while looking at saxes. Three thousand eight hundred dollars.
I was looking at a flute, at a flea market. Same as with the sax, I kinda wanta know if I could. If it had been fifty bucks I'd have bought it, but it was a hundred, which was too much, and it had a few broken pads. Glad I didn't get it, if it would have cost a couple of hundred bucks to repad it.
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Bandman Rental & Repair, LLC - Alto Sax Repad
After reviewing that, I can see why the cost is so high for it to be done right. To this very non-music oriented tone deaf lump it now makes sense.
After reviewing that, I can see why the cost is so high for it to be done right. To this very non-music oriented tone deaf lump it now makes sense.
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captorquewrench
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i have three in band. One junior high school band, so I pay $120 since she uses a school horn (no one's expected to buy an oboe) + $60 band fee for her.
Two in the high school band.
One plays a school horn (like oboe, no one is expected to buy a bassoon...we are talking upwards of $10k for a horn here) so just around $300 for fees, plus this sax she marches with, and the $120 for the year to use a school horn.
The other plays clarinet. I bought her a buffet 3 years ago still working on paying for, plus her $300-ish in band fees.
And three kids in band is still cheaper than one kid on the drill team or colorguard.
Plus, not a lot of the cattiness and bad rep of the drill team.
The life skill and enjoyment is worth every penny.
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I have always been envious of musical tallent. I couldn't master the flutophone when I was a kid... 
No joke.
No joke.
ol' geeser
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Honestly, I can't recall....
There was a lot going on at the time and I've slept since. You are probably correct...I haven't seen it in years, but he still plays it occasionally at a joint called TERRA-BLUES in NYC. I remember that the bell and valve area were an almost pink shaded copper, the valves etc. were brass as well as the neck...and it was very costly at the time.
His first horn (a Bundy)was stolen and this horn was what he wanted as a replacement. He had about a grand he'd saved up for a car that he put toward it and his Mom and I did the rest.....
Alpo
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Man, times have changed. I was freaked when I found out the kids around here have to buy their own uniform. You pay rent to use the school horn, and then band fees? My little brother was a bass player, and he played the school's Sousaphone, because certainly no one is going to buy their own, but I never heard of Mama having to pay the school for him to use it. We was poor. Ain't no way we could have paid rent on a tuba.
My business partner, when I met him in high school, was a bass. He told me that he started as a trumpet, and the teacher decided they had too many trumpets, and he would now be a French horn. After about 6 months of that he decided he did not like French horn, and switched to bass. School horn both times.
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beach elvis
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Welcome to my (albeit drums, bass, and guitar) world!
My biggest working expenditure is drumheads, then bass strings, then guitar strings. (I'm fortunate enough to have endorsements for drums, cymbals, and sticks so at least that's not a concern for now, anyway.)
The way I see it is that the money spent on maintaining your gear will GENERATE the bread you wanna use for your goodies. There's also something perfect about using "what God give ya" to be able to improve, enhance, and sustain your life, along with the lives of thems who ya love.
I HATE spending money but if you're gonna use an instrument to generate your wages, then you gotta spend the money that's necessary for that to continue to be possible.
My vote is to re-pad your axe. Using it will bankroll the wheelgun. Win-win.
My biggest working expenditure is drumheads, then bass strings, then guitar strings. (I'm fortunate enough to have endorsements for drums, cymbals, and sticks so at least that's not a concern for now, anyway.)
The way I see it is that the money spent on maintaining your gear will GENERATE the bread you wanna use for your goodies. There's also something perfect about using "what God give ya" to be able to improve, enhance, and sustain your life, along with the lives of thems who ya love.
I HATE spending money but if you're gonna use an instrument to generate your wages, then you gotta spend the money that's necessary for that to continue to be possible.
My vote is to re-pad your axe. Using it will bankroll the wheelgun. Win-win.
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captorquewrench
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Ol geeser...i love those Conn Naked Ladies. Lovely etching, rolled tone holes, fat fat sound!
Alpo, we don't buy the uniforms but part of what the fees cover is the cleaning and stuff on the uniforms.
I'm on the boosters board, and the budget would make you pee yourself. not so much what comes in but that almost the same amount goes right back out.
Alpo, we don't buy the uniforms but part of what the fees cover is the cleaning and stuff on the uniforms.
I'm on the boosters board, and the budget would make you pee yourself. not so much what comes in but that almost the same amount goes right back out.
Based on that I would say that the sax comes first. Do it; make some money then buy the gun.
quneur
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I watched a re-run of Sons of Guns last night, the episode where the guy gets his guitar-gun made. You could follow suit and have a revolver-saxophone made. But I would strongly suggest keeping/fabricating the infamous "gun lock". Unless your daughter doesn't like the band leader
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