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Re: Vandoren's date for introduction of 442 MP's ?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2018-10-10 00:42

NBeaty I'm not sure if I'm clear about your comment or comments. I'll be more than happy to send emails back and forth and show you my findings through the years.

I can say that the R13's in the 1960's you used 66mm barrels or 67mm barrels and pull out a shade to hit 442.

If you do that now with the present R13's you will be tuning to 435. Just facts. So you have to use much smaller barrels.

There are of course players with beautiful sounds, but if these companies made the horns correctly we'd have a lot more players with amazing sounds.

On a positive note we are seeing younger players showing up that can play anything. High school kids playing the Nielsen Concerto! This is a joy to hear. Such fast fingers and articular. Now let's add great sounds by providing players with amazing instruments to achieve this and get rid of this 440 junk. It really shouldn't be that hard and these surely shouldn't be sold anymore. Give us back 442 "Stuff," that sounds great and works.

I tested Guy Chadash's horns which are pretty much Buffet's from the 1960's with the octave keys moved and these horns play. The bores are smaller with the correct tapers and the barrels are adjustable to the correct pitch. So it's possible to make great horns at fair prices.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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