On the single F horn, part IV: Fun with crooks

As part of ramping up toward the F horn recording project (series starts here) I realized that the crook I was using certainly left the main slide too close to pushed in all the way to be comfortable – and the venue for the recording is going to be cooler than my home, likely I won’t be able to push in enough to get the horn up to pitch. Not acceptable! Crooks are an interesting part of the equation with any horn that takes crooks. The...

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