[TPIN] Monette for sale

[Dr. Albert L. Lilly III]

At 6:56 AM -0500 9/1/07, tpin-request at tpin.okcu.edu wrote:
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>In a message dated 8/31/2007 7:11:52 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
>manderson at okcu.edu writes:
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>They are  very soft and damage easily. It looks very precarious to  me.
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>Geez, I am trying to stay out of this, but I just can't.  This is part  of
>what I have had against Monette horns all along.  You pay a zillion 
>dollars for
>one, but it is too soft, or too delicate, or too whatever to take  the usual
>use of a trumpet. (A Tool that most of us have to use to conduct our 
>business.)
>Also, please, someone tell us about the "tune-up" that you must have done 
>that costs a couple of hundred dollars?  I'm not sure how often this is 
>supposed to happen.
>As someone else said in a different way, I'll take my Getzen any day.   Good
>reliable horn that will take the usual road stuff and "keep on  coming."  A
>good sound, great valves, and very easy to play.  Even in  Gold, a bargain
>compared to a Monette.
>Mike Vax


Mike, Mike, Mike......I'm slapping down the bullcrap card.

You've done nothing but bust on Monette here for the last four days.

At least be honest enough to admit you are NOT a good source to talk 
in an unbiased manner on Monette or his product, because it is 
exceptionally clear to anyone who can read that you are not.

You are a great player, and have given a lot of good advice on many 
subjects here.  But your bias here is showing, as well as (*on this 
subject only*) your ignorance.

Monette has never charged me a dime for "tune-up".  If you are the 
original owner of a horn, he sends out all of the o-rings, valve 
felts and springs, bungy cords, and other materials for your horn 
free.  He charges for a chem cleaning if you have it done, and asks 
that you ship it FedEx to avoid damage in shipment.  He took a ping 
out of a slide for free, realigned my valve cluster (with proper 
felts, and sent a few sets that match) for free.

The only thing you really cannot do with a Monette is use a trumpet 
stand, and even Maynard did that with his, so.....

Don't be so believing of all the negative stuff you read.

Al


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Dr. Albert L. Lilly III - mailto:albert.lilly at sbcglobal.net
Trumpeter, Brass Clinician, Arranger and Composer  
Calendar Editor, International Trumpet Guild  http://www.trumpetguild.org 
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