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Re: B&H Emperors

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2010-02-24 19:31

No other way around, Emperor is copy of Imperial.
In fact nearly all B&H postwar models except of course 1010s were based on the Imperial 926, that includes Regent/Edgware/Emperor etc etc. They all have fundamentally the same bore shape and acoustic design.
With however the early Emperors such as yours ( I would imagine ser. no. in low 8xxxx range) were built virtually identically to the Imperial apart from plating and probably less time spent on the final tuning.

Think yourself lucky... the later instruments received at most a cursory blow before they left the factory - a colleague of mine in the band in 1960 used to go to Edgware on some afternoons to do just that.

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