RE: [Hornlist] Seeking Information on Horn

[Alan Cole]

Oddball horns like that show up on eBay now & then, mostly marked Lidl, but 
2 of them marked Selmer Signet were on eBay recently.  Plus, a genuine 
Lehmann oddball compensating double horn on was eBay a couple of years 
ago.  That 1 was in pretty much ruined condition (from wear, though, not 
from trauma).

The 1 I have (an eBay Lidl) plays a tad flat, even with all slides pushed 
in as far as they can go.  (How do you suppose I might go about correcting 
that without spending more than the horn is worth?)

-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
    McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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Lehmann made a compensating double which used a long rotary valve with (I 
think) eight sets of ports to provide the compensating lengths of tubing 
and the F branch. The valve was placed perpendicular to the 1-2-3 rotors in 
such a way that, when closed, the ports formed the end of the Bb horn 
slides.  When opened the valve added in compensating lengths of tubing to 
give the F horn lengths and added the F branch.  I've only seen two of 
these and that was many years back.

Bob Osmun

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