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Alan JonesU.K.
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Hi, I haven't owned any chinese horns but I've played quite a few, at least a dozen full doubles, one or two compensators and quite a few mini F singles. So far the mini F singles are the only ones I would
Hi, these mouthpieces normally have a silver plated finish, which means they're raw brass underneath. I'm not quite sure what the significance of your subject line is, if it says Holton Farkas MDC on then
Hi, as we know the Accent website http://www.accentmusicalinstruments.com/ is fairly unspecific about where their instruments come from, and so we assumed they were probably Chinese-made. Certainly the
Hi, it's a brand name for a generic chinese-made horn, and if you read some of my answers you'll see I'm forever advising against these. They are too variable and too likely to be of poor manufacture/durability/tuning/etc
Hi, it's a Conn 6D, the model's been virtually unchanged since it was introduced in 1935. It's a medium size bell model mainly used by school and college students rather than pros. And yes, 1958 is the

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