It's been quite a while since I've written anything in here. Wedding planning sure does take up a lot of time. But now that the wedding's over, I have no more responsibilities ever again! I just need to sit around being waited on for the rest of my life.
Right?
Well, despite the questionable validity of that statement, my mind is as sharp as ever at work, and I do continue to learn a great deal. My most recent struggle this week was trying to get better with the "Sir James" flute mandrel, which I still need to spend a lot more time with. I do think I'm very gradually getting better with it, but I need to stew over my experiences with that tool before I can clearly articulate what it's taught me thus far.
My lesson learned today was something simple, but something that I need to write down so that I'll remember it - Bach Stradivarius trumpets take .080" thick washers on the valve stem to get the correct porting. True, 080" is just ever so slightly too thick, but I imagine that with compression over time (even though the synthetic washers we use barely compress), the porting will be pretty much right on. I need to see an instrument or two come back with the washers, though, before I can be sure of that.
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