[TPIN] Playing Cold/my HS team was the Eskymos

[Ron Neyvatte]

Hi Rod.
Hand warmers from the outdoor store strategically placed,and I have a 
wool sweater vest that I use: mouthpiece out one armhole,bell out the 
other,and both hands each through the neck and bottom.Sew the holes up 
so they are secure.I like your idea about the foam insulator around the 
leadpipe.
 I really can't imagine you with the gaudy silk underwear.
Cringe. 8^)
Ron

Rod Brawn wrote:

> Hi All,
>    I used to work as a busker in Sarnia, and London, Ontario, Canada.  
> I have played outside, usually up to one hour or maybe even 90 minutes 
> at a time, outside.  I have newspaper clipping pictures from the 
> London Free Press and The Sarnia Observer to prove it. Then I would go 
> inside to our indoor market, or a coffee shop or cafeteria and warm 
> up.   It has been almost 18 or 19 years since I did much of that, but 
> one thing that helps is to keep the lead-pipe warm.  One way is to 
> take a piece of  plastic sponge, you can buy it at a dollar store, cut 
> it into a strip say 2 inches by inches by say eight or ten inches,  5 
> cm by 5 cm by 20 cm, and cut a slit along one side about one inch  2 
> cm deep.  Slide this little insulator over the leapipe, and even cover 
> part of the mouthpiece, and fasten it on with a rubber band or a piece 
> of masking tape, or a pipe cleaner.  This will enable you to warm up 
> the leadpipe and mouthpiece much more quickly with your breath.  In 
> fact, the mouthpiece will feel almost normal to your lips.  I think I 
> learned this playing with the UWO Marching Mustang Band.  I have 
> certainly known since I played Santa Claus parades with The Concert 
> Band of Cobourg, Ontario in the winter of 1981-1982.  For your body, I 
> have found silk long underwear, purchased at Novacks here in London, 
> Ontario, Canada, or at Mountain Equipment, in Toronto, Ontario, 
> Canada, to be surprisingly warm.  It comes in very flamboyant 
> colours.  What about Rick Ragno, and Jan Trudel?  I'm sure the RCAF 
> band has stood on some very cold runways waiting for some dignitaries 
> from who knows where?
>    Have I not seen Salvation Army Cornetists with some sort of cover 
> for their cornets?  Certainly I have seen covers on some of their 
> larger brasses.
>
> Jingle Bells to all of you,
>
> Rod Brawn
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