[Hoosier Ken]

Time to make the bumpers and cork behind the octave key touch.
From some bulk felt I cut the bumper rounds out with a 1/2” punch. this can be made from a steel round tube. Sharpen the inside with a ball grinder or cone shape abrasive bit. View attachment 145276
Makes no difference if you cut off a slice. The material compress is the same for the cuts. View attachment 145277

Using a hole punch just inside the edge for making the notch to clear the screw. View attachment 145278

With a gently warmed pad slick I iron the piece flat so it glides into the clamp easily. too much heat will burn the felt. If your cutter is not sharp you will end up with fuzzy edges. Those can be burned off with a lightning fast pass of your torch.
View attachment 145279

I checked the part for it and then applied a coating of contact cement to just the flat edge. Quickly inserted the piece and pulled it back out. This coats the metal side. I applied a second coat to the felt and let it dry a few minutes. View attachment 145280

The screws hold the clamp onto the wire guard. These are not for clamping / holding the felt! View attachment 145281 View attachment 145282 View attachment 145283

A minor improvement from the original look at start of project. View attachment 145290

I wondered how to do this. My bumper felts are as flat as fritters. I will need some felt though and I don't have a leather punch but that can be rectified.

 

[skeller047]

I showed your gallery of Martin altos to my wife and told her never to yell at me again for having too many horns. I owe you a beer or something.

 

[PigSquealer]

I showed your gallery of Martin altos to my wife and told her never to yell at me again for having too many horns. I owe you a beer or something.

If you need help with another brand. I can probably accommodate those selections too🤣

 

[PigSquealer]

I wondered how to do this. My bumper felts are as flat as fritters. I will need some felt though and I don't have a leather punch but that can be rectified.

You can get by with gluing a couple-3 touch key disks together. Then cut in half. Just check all the measurements first to make sure you don’t end up with a part that’s too short.

 

[skeller047]

If you need help with another brand. I can probably accommodate those selections too🤣

Yes, I told her you had other brands too. The point was that you had already outstripped me for altos with the Martins alone.

I think she drank from the same koolaid dispenser that Dr. G did - she always makes a comment about she wishes I would play more tenor. I’ve been on a soprano kick lately, and she’s questioning me very directly.

 

[PigSquealer]

Yes, I told her you had other brands too. The point was that you had already outstripped me for altos with the Martins alone.

I think she drank from the same koolaid dispenser that Dr. G did - she always makes a comment about she wishes I would play more tenor. I’ve been on a soprano kick lately, and she’s questioning me very directly.

Not to late to buy a tenor for St Valentine’s Day ! Save yourself !

 

[PigSquealer]

For those following the thread having stack assembly problems.

Referring to your original pictures assemble the stacks off the horn first. Then proceed to assembling in the same order on the horn.

Be aware that both the upper and lower stack may have other components that need to be installed first. RH side keys, fork for front F, LH pinky G# touch. Each marker has different sequences. Think “layers” & “group system“ if that helps.

 

[CharlieOregon]

The Martin Indiana that Glenn has been working on is my horn, and I am amazed by his craftsmanship and attention to detail. We haven’t decided what will come next, but whomever ends up with it will have a fine instrument. He asked me to share a little of its history.

I bought it new sometime in the early 1960’s after I had played a rental horn for a year or two in grade school. I had a paper route to earn the money to pay for it - my memory was that it cost around $300, but that was sixty years ago and I could be mistaken. I think I bought it from Nieman’s Floral and Music, in Sandpoint , Idaho, but again, I could be mistaken. I delivered the Spokesman-Review, a morning paper, in Sandpoint for several years. I was in good company: Bing Crosby delivered the same newspaper in his youth.

I played the Martin in school bands and several ensembles, and briefly in jazz band, before I switched to baritone. While I was in high school - this was at Hellgate High School in Missoula Montana - before I made the basketball team, I played in the pep band. There was a trumpet player in the band named Allen Vizzutti, who even at that age was already a special player (he’s had a great career and is a Yamaha rep.). Allen had gotten to know another trumpet player - Doc Severinsen - I think through workshops Doc led. One night, Doc showed up in Missoula and played with our pep band at a basketball game. A thrill for all of us and I’m sure we never sounded better.

I’m sure there are many folks on SOTW who have owned horns for many years, and have sweet memories of special times: some of mine include marching and getting stung in the University homecoming parade; our sax quartet earning a blue ribbon at a regional competition; sitting around noodling in the basement with friends from jazz band. I haven’t played the saxophone in many, many years, having “graduated” to the ukulele, but I still treasure those times, as I’m sure you do yours.

 

[NO SAX]

For those following the thread having stack assembly problems.

Referring to your original pictures assemble the stacks off the horn first. Then proceed to assembling in the same order on the horn. View attachment 146409

Be aware that both the upper and lower stack may have other components that need to be installed first. RH side keys, fork for front F, LH pinky G# touch. Each marker has different sequences. Think “layers” & “group system“ if that helps.

A stacker for sure

 

[PigSquealer]

The Martin Indiana that Glenn has been working on is my horn, and I am amazed by his craftsmanship and attention to detail. We haven’t decided what will come next, but whomever ends up with it will have a fine instrument. He asked me to share a little of its history.

I bought it new sometime in the early 1960’s after I had played a rental horn for a year or two in grade school. I had a paper route to earn the money to pay for it - my memory was that it cost around $300, but that was sixty years ago and I could be mistaken. I think I bought it from Nieman’s Floral and Music, in Sandpoint , Idaho, but again, I could be mistaken. I delivered the Spokesman-Review, a morning paper, in Sandpoint for several years. I was in good company: Bing Crosby delivered the same newspaper in his youth.

I played the Martin in school bands and several ensembles, and briefly in jazz band, before I switched to baritone. While I was in high school - this was at Hellgate High School in Missoula Montana - before I made the basketball team, I played in the pep band. There was a trumpet player in the band named Allen Vizzutti, who even at that age was already a special player (he’s had a great career and is a Yamaha rep.). Allen had gotten to know another trumpet player - Doc Severinsen - I think through workshops Doc led. One night, Doc showed up in Missoula and played with our pep band at a basketball game. A thrill for all of us and I’m sure we never sounded better.

I’m sure there are many folks on SOTW who have owned horns for many years, and have sweet memories of special times: some of mine include marching and getting stung in the University homecoming parade; our sax quartet earning a blue ribbon at a regional competition; sitting around noodling in the basement with friends from jazz band. I haven’t played the saxophone in many, many years, having “graduated” to the ukulele, but I still treasure those times, as I’m sure you do yours.

Great to hear from you. Thanks for posting some fun history on this sweet young horn.
Any memory of when this was last regularly used ? Still have your high school annual? I wonder if there’s a picture of you in band ?

I looked up Allen Vizzutti. He’s had one heck of an musical journey.
Yamaha produced a Allen Vizzutti model trumpet, wow !

 

[saxophender]

Allen Vizzutti? That's pretty cool. When I was in college, Fire Dance was our marching band's favorite song to play. After I graduated, he actually came one year and played it as a guest soloist with the band at a halftime show.