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From time to time you wonder how things end up on hacker news. I think this time its just pure Internet nostalgia, someone giving a somewhat obscure advice away

From time to time you wonder how things end up on hacker news. I think this time its just pure Internet nostalgia, someone giving a somewhat obscure advice away for free, without agenda or commercial interest..

alimw 8y ago
Well I clicked because my trombone's slide is bent.
- Rebelgecko 8y ago
  Mine is too, but after looking over their process and equipment I decided I'm better off taking it to a professional
- bokchoi 8y ago
  Mine too :(
- fock 8y ago
  I clicked because it's trombones. My problem though is that the valve for the F-attachment is broken off and I need to resolder it. Does anyone have a nice tutorial outlying the pitfalls associated with soldering that (my approach would be to heat the lever part in the oven, heat the installation site with a blowtorch and add solder and put the preheated part on it, hoping it's no cold solder joint)
  - jacquesm 8y ago
    Depending on how much you value the instrument my first port of call would be to go to a music store and get a quote, and if you feel that the quote is high relative to the value of the instrument then you can go the DIY route. What you want is called brazing, not soldering, and it will cause the silvering of the parts to be burned off so you'll have to re-silver it (assuming a silver plated trombone).
camtarn 8y ago
I just submit anything I happen across that I find interesting. In this case, my trombone's slide is very sticky and I was googling around to see if there was anything I could do myself to fix it. After reading this page, I think my answer is 'not much'!
dec0dedab0de 8y ago
The only stories I wonder about are thinly veiled gossip or marketing. Anything music related reminds me that many(most?) hackers are musically inclined
- mattlondon 8y ago
  > Anything music related reminds me that many(most?) hackers are musically inclined. Hmm. News to me - I've never heard this before. Got any references on that? Annecdotally I can only think of one person I vaguely know who liked playing keyboards. Again annecdotally one of my parents is a professional musician so you'd imagine some of that would run off and perhaps I'd be more likely than the average to be musically inclined having grown up in a house full of instruments and music, yet I have absolutely zero interest or inclination. Sure people listen to music a lot, but never seen any other connection beyond that?
  - jedimastert 8y ago
    You can add another person to that list, me! I'm currently working as a software engineer, but I made my living as a musician (jazz, blues, piano bar) for several years. I could see jazz especially being interesting to tech folks. There's a fantastic mixture of theory and logic and puzzle-solving mixed with creativity and expression that meshes very well with hacker culture, at least to me. I personally know quite a few people who are into both. It's also something that can be largely self-taught, which mean a lot of the people who are into it are into it because they're passionate about it.
    - gvurrdon 8y ago
      Also a jazz musician (bass), though it's been years since I've done any gigs.
  - dec0dedab0de 8y ago
    I thought i first read it on esr's how to be a hacker thing about 20 years ago, but it may have been something else. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
MarkLowenstein 8y ago
I got my son's French horn overhauled by Dan. He is one of these inexplicably dedicated craftsmen in a very offbeat art--the kind the world would be poorer without. I believe that people with his kind of obsession with completeness and refinement should be appreciated, studied, and--as a lot of computer programming pursuits can benefit from the same qualities--emulated!

alimw 8y ago

Well I clicked because my trombone's slide is bent.

Rebelgecko 8y ago
Mine is too, but after looking over their process and equipment I decided I'm better off taking it to a professional
bokchoi 8y ago
Mine too :(
fock 8y ago
I clicked because it's trombones. My problem though is that the valve for the F-attachment is broken off and I need to resolder it. Does anyone have a nice tutorial outlying the pitfalls associated with soldering that (my approach would be to heat the lever part in the oven, heat the installation site with a blowtorch and add solder and put the preheated part on it, hoping it's no cold solder joint)
- jacquesm 8y ago
  Depending on how much you value the instrument my first port of call would be to go to a music store and get a quote, and if you feel that the quote is high relative to the value of the instrument then you can go the DIY route. What you want is called brazing, not soldering, and it will cause the silvering of the parts to be burned off so you'll have to re-silver it (assuming a silver plated trombone).

camtarn 8y ago

I just submit anything I happen across that I find interesting. In this case, my trombone's slide is very sticky and I was googling around to see if there was anything I could do myself to fix it. After reading this page, I think my answer is 'not much'!

dec0dedab0de 8y ago

The only stories I wonder about are thinly veiled gossip or marketing. Anything music related reminds me that many(most?) hackers are musically inclined

mattlondon 8y ago
> Anything music related reminds me that many(most?) hackers are musically inclined. Hmm. News to me - I've never heard this before. Got any references on that? Annecdotally I can only think of one person I vaguely know who liked playing keyboards. Again annecdotally one of my parents is a professional musician so you'd imagine some of that would run off and perhaps I'd be more likely than the average to be musically inclined having grown up in a house full of instruments and music, yet I have absolutely zero interest or inclination. Sure people listen to music a lot, but never seen any other connection beyond that?
- jedimastert 8y ago
  You can add another person to that list, me! I'm currently working as a software engineer, but I made my living as a musician (jazz, blues, piano bar) for several years. I could see jazz especially being interesting to tech folks. There's a fantastic mixture of theory and logic and puzzle-solving mixed with creativity and expression that meshes very well with hacker culture, at least to me. I personally know quite a few people who are into both. It's also something that can be largely self-taught, which mean a lot of the people who are into it are into it because they're passionate about it.
  - gvurrdon 8y ago
    Also a jazz musician (bass), though it's been years since I've done any gigs.
- dec0dedab0de 8y ago
  I thought i first read it on esr's how to be a hacker thing about 20 years ago, but it may have been something else. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

MarkLowenstein 8y ago

I got my son's French horn overhauled by Dan. He is one of these inexplicably dedicated craftsmen in a very offbeat art--the kind the world would be poorer without. I believe that people with his kind of obsession with completeness and refinement should be appreciated, studied, and--as a lot of computer programming pursuits can benefit from the same qualities--emulated!