Author: CWH
Date: 2008-07-20 14:03
Oh my look at what this little horn has started, guys’ thank you for your very kind responses. Your knowledge on this topic is slightly overwhelming, but truly welcome.
Let me first start that I have no intention at this time on selling her, though I appreciate the inquiries. This would be my first venture with a SOP and I’m on a fact finding mission.
The old girl is not engraved as a “Buescher” it is “International Musical Instruments – NY”, but as I’m finding out Buescher made horns for music stores. So I’m assuming that like with clarinets you can identify the horn from its key work. If it is helpful the horns serial number is 86XXX. The length of the horn I can not post right now as I have dropped it off with the technician (same guy who adjusts my other horns). In short what I’m hearing for you guys is that she is a keeper, which was my thought too. I expect it will be some fun to noodle around with.
And yes I like most of you have collected more horns than one person should. In my case it has been clarinets, mostly Leblancs with a few exceptions. To this we can ad a few more old metal horns that have been restored.
When I was given this old girl “Sidney Bechet” came to mind and the wonderful spectrum of sound he was able to produce.
Although it came with an unmarked mouthpiece, can you make a suggestion as to others to try and possible facings? Again, if it were a clarinet no problem, but here with this I’m at a loss. I did go ahead and order a box of #3 Alexander Superial DC, was this ok. I would normally play 3 ½ to 4 ½ on my clarinet depending on the setup. So I thought the #3 would be a good starting point, but I should have inquired first.
Any further advice is welcome and greatly appreciated.
Thank you to all
Chuck
Study, Practice, Play and Enjoy.
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