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On 20 dec 2006, at 20.28, Richard Sales wrote: > I've often wondered about metal instruments. Do they age like > wooden ones? No, they generally age by being thrown to the ground by goones at airports. ...Oh no, I can't keep that joke thing up... sorry ;-)) Need to type something serious.... like this; I read a book by the flutist James Galway where he says that he always stores his flutes pointing parallel to the north-south direction, simply because he has found that they generally sound better then. I really don't know how metal instruments age. I own some but they are so much older than me that I kind of have no chance to catch up with the perspective. With saxes many rich players say that they prefer new instruments because of the better mechanics (new saxes are horribly expensive). And as with mouth pieces age doesn't seem to count much because they are hand made anyway and if one piece came out nicely it will be a great mouth piece, no matter when it was manufactured. Just my personal view. I've been hanging on to one mouth piece for 25 years but that's simply because I have not been able to find something better - and I have really tried. My guess is that age is most prominent in wooden instrument (and of course Quality of age, as in having been played vs having been stuffed away for the same amount of time). Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://www.myspace.com/looproom