With the vendor’s permission, I opened it, to reveal an off-brand straight Bb soprano with unusual wear patterns and several missing pearls. In the fall of 2012, Shelia and I were at a huge annual flea market (the “Extravaganza”) in the Clark County, Ohio fairgrounds, when I saw an unusual instrument case in one of the vendors’ booths. Again, this interest was essentially academic, as I already have more instruments than my gigging patterns really justify. If nothing else, it would have a wider bore and be closer to my altos than the Martin C. Still, I started playing tenor at church a couple years ago, and that got me wondering if I would benefit from having a more playable soprano, probably a Bb. So when I say that years went by while I wondered if I’d have more luck with a better soprano than my Martin C, it’s not something I worried about every day, or even every year. ![]() In fact I may go months on end without ever taking a horn outside of the house. And it still takes a lot of effort to play in tune. If you’ve read up on my experience with the vintage Martin C soprano, you’ll know that my first soprano was a former basket case that has taken a lot of work and practice to be useful for me. This is my second soprano, and it cost me even less than the first one. ![]() Horns in my Life: 80s Lafayette Bb Soprano
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