[TPIN] What do you play?

[Todd Stalter]

I have to admit I'm catching up as well...
 
1) Bach Strad ML37, stock from the factory, with a Bach 1C mouthpiece with an S backbore (loaned to me by my teacher, Rick Lehman, back in 1985, and he was gracious enough to let me keep it, rest his soul).  Every once in a while, I put in a Bach 1B when I'm feeling especially "manly"...i.e. have been practicing for a while.
 
2) Bach Strad CL 239, stock from the factory, with the same 1C mouthpiece.  Sometimes I use the rounded crook I got from Bach, and sometimes I don't...just depends on my mood, and who I need to blend with in church.
 
Both horns are early 1990's vintage, and play wonderfully.  I wore out my original stock Strad I got when I was a freshman in high school in 1980...I guess I practiced too much in college :-)  But I liked the 1st valve trigger on it...always was a good conversation starter at gigs.
 
Best horn I ever played was a 1960's lacquer Bach Strad CL 239 with a Blackburn 12-350 pipe and a rounded tuning crook.  It was owned by the university, and I played it in orchestra and also gigging around when I was in school.  I would have sold relatives to have kept that axe...
 
-Todd Stalter, Eureka, IL
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