Re: no fail topic!

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> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 02:22:49 GMT, "Leonard & Peggy Brown"
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>
> >Ok, what model of horn are you playing and what would you dump it for in
a
> >second.
> >
> >LB
> >
>
> I don't know if my response to this post ever got through or not so here
it is again.
>
> ***
> HA!   That could be a sore subject for many.  I had a Conn 8D that was a
honey but it was stolen.
> :-(   I had almost stopped playing after that but someone approached me
about playing some gigs
> coming up and they needed someone who could handle some high horn part so
they gave me a Yamaha
> YHR-662 to use.  He wanted my "opinion" on how it played so I agreed to
get back in to semi shape
> and played the gigs.  When those ended he had some other gigs  lined up.
Before long I was playing
> pretty regularly and I was really surprised at the way that horn responded
and SOUNDED.  I had
> always thought that the yamaha horns were too sharp (from hearsay) and
didn't have a full bodied
> tone.  I don't know about the rest of them but that particular one was
remarkable.  Well, long story
> short, (or is it too late?)  I became the owner of that yamaha and I still
play on it.   For the
> most part I've been very happy with it.   Well, up until I ran into a
young lady who happened to
> have a Lawson she had purchased from someone.  It was a medium bore horn
and slightly smaller than I
> 'thought' I would like.  She let me play on it and I fell in love
immediately.  (not with her, with
> the horn)  It's response was unbelievable!  I felt like I was playing on a
fiddle--so agile, so
> AGREEABLE!
>
> I might spring for one of those if I keep playing a lot.  I have played on
an Alexander and a Kruspe
> in my life but I didn't like either.  Both made me feel as though I was
fighting the stuffiness.
> Might have just been me not being player enough for either but I
personally didn't like them.  I've
> never played on a Miraphone horn or a Geyer.  Of course, everybody has
played on a Holton Farkas.
> HA!   Not my cup of tea either.
>
> All in all, I'm probably not the player to ask about the quality of a
horn.  I'm mostly just an
> average player.  I've played with lots of orchestras, bands and pits but
nothing that will make me
> famous. :-)
>
> What about you?  I bet you own one of each of the horns I've named.
<grin>
>
> Bill

Bill,
    I am using an Alexender right now.  Yup, at times the stuffy aspect gets
to me a little, but not when I am above the staff or trying to hit a "pp"
entrance.  I have used a Kruspe, nice but heavy.   I have played a Geyer,
but only one and it was a total rebuild so I don't know if they were all
like it was... very nice light horn.  I have played only one Farkas I liked
it was the brass medium bore horn... for some reason this one had a thin
thin bell.  I can't see trading my Alex for anything right now.  I have
never tried a Yama.

LB