A pic of that „plastic trumpet“, please. I tried to play trumpet in my youth but was not successful.
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A pic of that „plastic trumpet“, please. I tried to play trumpet in my youth but was not successful.
Secret Santa Mystery Blend in the Altinay Bulldog. I'm quite on a roll on my Meerschaums this and last week! Normally VA blends don't do anything to me in a Meerschaum, but this one sings like Luciano Pavarotti in it.
Being a fan of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films, I knew I had to have a 4AB. I probably should’ve gotten the Traditional finish to have a pipe closer to what was depicted in the films, but, the Natural finish is what called to me. Unfortunately, there were so few done of those, and I’m not a fan of most of Peterson’s Rusticated finishes (especially the ones that look like they were gouged with a small rotary grinder). I was lucky enough to come across someone who was parting with a Terracotta finish, which was my next choice after Natural. I thought the Ebony looked pretty cool, but, those, too, were few in number, and rarely seen. I’m always amazed, but, shouldn’t be surprised, that Jim has all seven finishes. That appeals to my completist collector tendencies.
McClelland - No. 2020 Matured Cake in a Stanwell Bent Pot, shape 11
For a second I thought the same thing.
Good day all - and Congratulations PiperIT! Starting with GLP Stonehenge in a Savinelli Autograph flame grain Billiard with flattened stem and matching saddle stem.
Personally, peterson's sandblasting looks much better than rusticated, castello's（or radice）rusticated finishes are quite good, especially candle tears.
Many congratulations on the first grandchild. A blessing indeed.To be honest, I don’t know if they took the flake and turned it into this, or the blend is it’s own.
There is a difference here from the flake, because upon opening the tin, and taking a smell, I was greeted with perfume and pineapple. Since Irish Condor was the last perfume Lakeland like blend I smelled/smoked last month, it was the first thing that came to mind, along with Gawith’s Lakeland perfume like blends, very similar.
But no soap notes, just a subtle perfume smell and taste.
Looking back on Erinmore flake I had in the 80s, it definitely had no perfume Lakeland going on, it was all Pineapple.
The Pineapple smell and taste is 100% like I remember from the flake in the 80s, just amazing.
I still can’t believe the moisture remained perfect for 48 years, it boggles my mind.
NOW I seriously need to find more and stock up, if possible LOL.
P.S. It does look like little cut up flakes, if you look closely at the pic I posted before, not cubes.
Maybe we lost another chet or miles.
I have a friend who is a professional flute player. It is well known that flute players are obsessed with gold flute, it is their standard equipment, but he often uses a plastic flute, so I think the plastic trumpet is OK
Finally i'm able to have my afternoon bowl of G&H Best Brown nro 2 in an Orlik De Luxe model 176 L medium long billiard
Overall fit and drilling is about as good as any Savinelli, though I think the slot on a Tsuge pipe is cut with more care than your average factory pipe.
It's really bizarre that the price rocketed up so fast, it makes me wonder if they've gone out of production because otherwise you can still find the pipes elsewhere, the price on Rakuten is still equivalent to $70, if anything the price should have gone down with recent exchange rates.
(Speaking of exchange rates now is definitely the best time to get a pipe from Europe.)
if it's Tsuge charging more for their work then I'm fine with that but retailers arbitrarily jacking prices is always one of my biggest annoyances in life.
2012 Fribourg & Tryer Cut Virginia Plug in a Jack Howell Brandy.
HU's Sunset in a Buckeye Little Turtle
Thanks, It's actually not as big as it looks in the picture LOL.
Maybe we lost another chet or miles.
I have a friend who is a professional flute player. It is well known that flute players are obsessed with gold flute, it is their standard equipment, but he often uses a plastic flute, so I think the plastic trumpet is OK
Free jazz artist Don Cherry used a small kids plastic trumpet as he arrived at university and it n his very early days. He became quite famous in the Ornette Coleman Quartett in the 1950s.
I’ve heard him once live later in the 1980s at Leverkusener Jazztage as a member of the free jazz band „The leaders“ with Chick Freeman. He played a golden pocket trumpet. I love his sound, got several records, some of the the best jazz ever ever heard is the trilogy „Old and new Dreams“ with Charly Haden on bass, Dewey Redman, tenor sax, Ed Blackwell, drums.
Here with Paul motian
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3 Sails in a Jack Ryan, drinking Community Coffee black.
Running out of Perique cones so I decided for a very different beast. Mac Barens Vanilla cream Flake in Europe called Classic Flake because of regulations tobaccos not be mistaken as food. I found it in a local store. fold it in the falcon. Nice Virginia tobacco forward smoke with not to much vanilla. Way better than the ready rubbed variation.
Low Country Natural Virginia in a Brigham Voyageur #116 Rhodesian with a cup of black tea on a chilly, damp, Long Island day.
Sir John’s Flake Virginia in an Altinay.
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