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C. F. SCHMIDT, Weimar, double horn in F/Bb or Bb/F
£4,600.00
Maker: C.F. SCHMIDT
Model: Full double with F/Bb piston change valve, an
alternative Bb/F piston valve, and an alternative main
tuning slide that contains a manual rotary valve for hand
stopping.
Mr Jonathan Ring, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra,
the renowned Schmidt historian, reports that this horn is quite a
late C.F. Schmidt, built by Schmidt's successor Johannes
Kirchberg* sometime post WWII, probably in the late 1940s or
maybe early 1950s.
*Kirchberg, who began his apprenticeship with Schmidt in
Weimar in 1890, was the final owner of C.F. Schmidt until his
death in 1961.
The horn is currently in F/Bb, but the alternative
piston change valve gives Bb/F.
The horn is in excellent condition,
with very good compression in all the valves.
Its playing is superb over the entire range, with
great 'blowing freedom' on the F side; this
means that the Bb side can be reserved for use
in the top octave+, in traditional German style.
This lovely horn comes in its original Schmidt wooden
case, lined with green baize cloth.
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Halstead Music acts as an agent only,
accepting no responsibility as a principal.
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