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LIDL, traditional model
£300.00
Maker: JOSEF LIDL
Brno, Czech Republic
Type: Full double F/Bb
Bell throat profile: medium
Alloy: unlacquered yellow brass
Weight: 2.85 kg
Visual / cosmetic condition: generally good, with just a few scuffs
and blemishes having no effect on the playing.
Valve compression: moderately good
Case: slightly care-worn original hard case.
Distance from finger hook to 4th valve lever: 10.5 cm (1
centimetre 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 a good, very 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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accepting no responsibility as a principal.
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