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I concur with someone in the first few pages, Mellophone is hell to march, and I absolutely love being first chair in concert season and owning the other two girls.

Does anyone know if a flugel horn sounds diffrent than a fremch horn? I heard that the only diffrence is the way it looks.

i would imagine it would be slightly different but then I do find that the Bflat and F sides of my horn sound different so I could be being overly picky.
But it could be very similar.

anyone know where i can get some good string replacements and pads online? my horn is lik 14 years old and i don't think its ever had any parts replaced.
also my keys click against the pads when i play, is this just another replacement issue or something else?
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i am pretty much the horn doctor at my school since my BD is stupid and my section doesn't really care sweatdrop . theres one that had somehow got its first valve unstringed, its only 3 years old really and it hasn't been played for two, the keys are sticking like mad.
i really don't have the time or patience to try and doctor this horn its seriously screwed up. anyone have any tips apart from just playing it to help loosen this horn up?

get fishingline for strings. it is crude but if you get the clear stuff if doesnt look too bad and because it was ment to hold heavy objects, it wont brake as easily on the sticky horn. and get rotary valve oil for it .. the older horns can take regular oil but newers need rotary oil... as for pads, try going to a music store and see if they can tell you a good place and nothing else get them to order some for you.

thanks i'm on that site right now. i'm a little intimidated about using fishingline though... but i'll research it. lol you guys are great help thanks.

Sounds crappy KGarbage.
My turn to rant.

Although I'm not sure if I would prefer to be in that position. At least just to see what it is like. My band conducter is ok but she the woodwind instructor and so is slightly biased against woodwind. She knows how good/bad they are and they get more of a chance to say if something is insanely easy. There's a big group of trumpets so they can have 1st and 2nd parts so they are all right but I'm on my own and trapped in the most boring, way too easy parts.
I've been playing for almost 5 years and could have played them fine 4 years ago. It wouldn't be so bad if I had a hope of ever being able to go on to play something harder but theres just one wind band in school and it has to cater for almost beginners. The horn is always the background part. Mainly just holding notes but occasionaly a bit of rhythem. I know someone has to play that part and I do (if I'm being brutally honest) hold the background instruments together as there aren't that many of us and most are beginners. I can't change because then there wouldn't be a background.
I would be able to put up with it a lot more easily but some of the other instruments (especially trumpets) have such trouble playing the parts and even they are easy. Thats the other thing, even if I was playing tune it would still be way too easy and at least when I'm in the background I do make a difference.
In my school we have to be in wind band if we want to learn a wind instrument. But it's drinving me nuts. it's so frustrating I just want to walk out but then I wouldn't get lessons and I wouldn't get to play all those awesome peices that challenge me (I'm working on some of Mozart's concertos just now) and the thing is that I did used to like band, it felt like such an acheivement when we sounded good. I had to work for it so it felt good but now it's just another concert to sit through.