LIDL traditional model

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£390.00

 

 

Maker: JOSEF LIDL

 

Brno, Czech Republic

 

Type: Full double F/Bb

 

Bell throat profile: medium

 

Alloy: lacquered yellow brass

 

Weight: 2.82 kg

 

Visual / cosmetic condition: very good, no 

 

blemishes other than a few tiny ‘non-invasive’ dings

 

having no effect on the playing, and some slight lacquer

 

loss where small repairs have been done.

 

Valve compression: very good

 

Mouthpiece: quite a small Vincent Bach, its silver plating in good

 

condition.

 

Case: 'Gear4Music' with backpack straps.

 

 

Distance from finger hook to 4th valve lever: 10 cm (very slightly

 

wider than the average 9.5 cm found on many double horns)

 

NB: This is an important specification that is often neglected

 

or overlooked by horn sellers, makers and even some teachers.

 

The small hands of a young player usually cannot cope

 

with a left hand stretch that is too wide (although there is

 

sometimes some scope for a brass technician to re-position

 

either the finger hook, or, less easily, the 4th valve lever).

 

 

Further details: sometimes under-rated on account of its

 

weight, this well-known 'beginner to intermediate’ model of

 

full double horn has been made famous by the very

 

enjoyable and entertaining book ‘I Found my Horn’ by Jasper

 

Rees.

 

I played this very model (not this actual horn) when I

 

was 4th horn in the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra,

 

since it gave a much more  powerful and ‘projecting’

 

low and middle register response than did my default

 

horn at that time, an Alexander 104.

 

Our current horn is an excellent, inexpensive example

 

with a  fluent response and an even sound over the

 

whole range.

 

Its high register is very clear, giving good Ab and A

 

particularly, using the 'long' fingerings advised by many

 

teachers for young players lacking the lip flexibility and

 

strength to correct the intonation of the easier-to-sound

 

'short' fingerings.

 


 

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LIDL traditional model