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BOOSEY 'CLASS A' made in 1903
£450.00
Maker: BOOSEY & CO
Model: 'Orchestral Model Class A light valve'
Type: French-style piston horn with F crook
Serial number: 65269, made in 1903.
Bell throat profile: Small
Alloy: yellow brass
Visual / cosmetic condition: generally 'good to moderate'; there are some quite small dings on the horn body, but nothing that impacts its playing qualities.
Valve compression: good, slightly leaky but good if oiled regularly.
Further details: although ‘cosmetically challenged’ this horn plays well.
Fortunately, the instrument does NOT display the often-found
‘acute angle’ between crook and horn body.
Its in-line pistons would allow it to be converted to a
valveless hand horn very easily and inexpensively, but
this course of action would be inadvisable, since it plays
well as a piston-valve horn.
Its valve slides are short enough to give good intonation,
when pushed in fully, with an A crook (not supplied)
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Halstead Music acts as an agent only,
accepting no responsibility as a principal.
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