I think it might be more correct to say that
"someone has to play-test the factory horns to make sure they are acceptable to ship to dealers"
It would be interesting to know what criteria various builders (both factory and custom) use to determine whether their horns are 'good enough'.
I doubt that any builder attempts to verify that there are not ANY defects, and that each horn is their best quality for that model.
It seems that with many instruments, the chance of finding a 'very good' example out of a selection of, say, 3 instruments is fairly small. Hopefully, there IS a good chance that all the instruments will be 'good' or 'ok'. I base this on several anecdotal accounts of professional players being happy that they had to try ONLY 5 or 6 instruments to find one they were willing to purchase for their own use. There is also the 'factory visit' process that many pros use when selecting a new instrument.
I'm sure that many of us are more selective about buying a bunch of bananas than was possible when we bought our horn!
Jay Kosta
Endwell NY
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c y writes:
What is so hard to understand about this concept?
someone has to play test the factory horns to make sure there are no defects...
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I think it says less for the quality and more for the qualities of a
Holton horn.I have played about 4000 Holton horns.
Actually, that should have read 40,000. I forgot to multiply by 10
years.
Wes
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