Re: [Hornlist] Holtons, Competitions

[Alan Cole]

If the levers are too short for your fingers, you can get Chris at Blue 
Rider Music to solder dimes onto the ends of the levers, positioning the 
coins so that they extend beyond the ends of the levers.

Lengthening the valve levers, in fact, is 1 of the 3 non-decorational 
reasons for soldering on the dimes.  (The other 2 are restoring thickness 
to levers that have worn thin & giving the player a tactile reminder to 
keep the fingers arched instead of letting them flatten out on the levers.)

-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
    McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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I have short fingers.  The keys are harder to reach on the Conn.  It was 
almost impossible to snag that third key on the older models, but the newer 
ones have longer keys.

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