-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] In a message dated 11/24/2002 2:56:36 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> But tell me, how Holton can produce a double horn for $ 1.000.- ? The operation sheets at Holton allow for a Farkas horn to be built in 24 man hours from the first screw made to the final testing. When they buy raw materials by the hundreds of pounds they do get a bit of a cost break. Many of the machines at Holton are quite old, and much of the manufacture is done by hand. Holton produces about 4000 french horns per year, a lot of valves.Making 600 sets with out a tool change may have been an exageration, but it is pretty close. Wes _______________________________________________ Horn mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn
