If they brought back the Mark VI, it would be banned......

[daigle65]

This is what Courtney Pine says at the end of this video (3:35)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RScuj...feature=relmfu

What do you suppose that's about?

[magical pig]

Has he said in the vid, I'm suspecting the issue is similar to old rubber where the process and end product wouldn't meet safety or environmental regulations.

[kfoster]

Have you ever held a geiger counter up to a Mark VI?..........

Wow.....

[daigle65]

.... end product wouldn't meet safety or environmental regulations.

Yeah, but what's so toxic about brass?

[magical pig]

Lead?

Maybe it's not the product, but the fabrication process that would yield toxic waste?

[Buck Laughlin]

That's the true source of the Mark VI "thing"! It's all about the toxicity. He wasn't supposed to tell anyone . . .

[Bubba06]

That's the true source of the Mark VI "thing"! It's all about the toxicity. He wasn't supposed to tell anyone . . .

Conspiracy? Is he going to be Wacked?

-Bubba-

[Buck Laughlin]

Conspiracy? Is he going to be Wacked?

-Bubba-

I've said too much already.

[Jason DuMars]

Mark tox-VI?

[sonnymobleytrane]

Could it be that the players of the 50's sounded so great because they were not consumed with such nonsense?

[Stretch]

Could it be that the players of the 50's sounded so great because they were not consumed with such nonsense?

But didn't most of them die? Mark VI = early grave

[magical pig]

But didn't most of them die? Mark VI = early grave

The mystery thickens!!

[MartinMusicMan]

So THAT's what the Mark VI mystique is all about. Players got their brains addled. Explains a lot.

[piwikiwi]

it's a bit off topic but still interesting. i think everyone hear knows the story about the brass from the artillery shells? It turns out they use brass from artillery shells in the large hadron collider because it such a high quality brass:') so maybe there is some truth to that story

[Aldevis]

i think everyone hear knows the story about the brass from the artillery shells

I first heard this story 1n 1982, about Bach trumpets. What is so mysterious about brass? It is an alloy.
Anyway, Mk VI were made also with UNEXPLODED artillery shells, hence the health and safety concern. This is also the reason I do not bring my MkVI on airplanes as checked-in baggage: too dangerous.

[piwikiwi]

I first heard this story 1n 1982, about Bach trumpets. What is so mysterious about brass? It is an alloy.
Anyway, Mk VI were made also with UNEXPLODED artillery shells, hence the health and safety concern. This is also the reason I do not bring my MkVI on airplanes as checked-in baggage: too dangerous.

Traces of explosives?:')

[milandro]

so called cartridge brass is a type of brass, not necessarily recuperated from old cartridges......
http://www.farmerscopper.com/cartridge-brass.html

[Aldevis]

not necessarily recuperated from old cartridges......[/url]

So it can be reproduced. This confirms my theory about gunpowder. If you think of John Coltrane (and others), there was definitely gunpowder somewhere.

[piwikiwi]

Oh it turns out that I should read the stuff first then post something about it here. They used Russian artillery shell casings because it was cheap and it had the right properties.:')

[milandro]

.... They used Russian artillery shell casings because it was cheap and it had the right properties.:')

if it was Russian hence it was communist........... it had no personal properties............