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2012-02-08 chinese horns:

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

2012-01-29 Real or fake:

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

2012-01-29 Another Accent horn:

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

2012-01-26 Ravel horn:

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

2012-01-26 Horn Serial:

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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