Friday went well. I woke up in plenty of time to have breakfast and get over to the temple for the scheduled meeting with the rabbi (he wants us to meet once a month) and we talked for almost an hour.
Leaving there, I found myself on Taylor Street and decided to, instead of turning on El Camino Real, to keep going ahead and see if the music store is open. It was not, so I had a breakfast burrito next door that was too big for me to actually finish.
Then I went to the music store where the guy there, who said he was a trombone player, helped me out. They had the 2nd Getchell book but not the first, but he said "Hickey Music" in New York or something like that, would be good to order it from.
I also wanted to look at their used mouthpieces and in the end I got a Bach 7C for cornet, but maybe an older one as it says "VINCENT BACH CORP." on it, for $20. The guy said $20 out the door was fine, then when I left he chased after me saying I owed another $1.88 in tax, and I said that's not how it works and that most people calculate the price so it comes out to $20 with the tax and his reaction was something like "Ohh yeah... I can do that". Really ding-y guy.
The mouthpiece is interesting though. Looking at the Bach Loyalist web site, it seems it was made in the 1970s, earlier than 1974, and just by looking at it and feeling with my fingers, it looks really, really close to my 3C trumpet mouthpiece. So although I just wanted something cheap and generic to put with the Connstellation which I'm considering selling, I may have just bought another keeper.
The rest of the day was doing some shopping and getting back to the shop, then taking some things to FedEx to get 'em out. I didn't go to the service because it was forecast to rain, which it did.
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