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Re: Why do testers sometimes not play the instruments they designed?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-06-11 15:13

The best policy for any maker is to use their own model number or naming system rather than naming any instrument after a specific endorsee if that endorsee gets all flaky and jumps ship to another maker.

Imagine what a kick in the teeth it is to have your top level instrument named after someone when they no longer endorse it, then having to rebrand and effectively relaunch that same instrument as something different (and probably doing some cosmetic tweaks here and there to make it appear different) while it's essentially the same thing in a sort of erasing history exercise, especially if it was a rather acrimonious split between maker and endorsee.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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