Wow, East Germany?
For some reason I thought the Zalzer horns came from Austria.
Is it possible some came from 1 country & others from elsewhere?
I formerly had a Zalzer "Concerto" model single horn in B-flat with nice playing characteristics & good sound -- had to let it go only because of the overpopulation of horns around here (i.e., in my house).
All the while that I had the Zalzer B-flat horn, I was under the impression it was Austrian. Do you suppose it was East German after all?
And the brand: Zalzer. Great-sounding name, eh? Would be hard to think up any better trade name for European horns than Zalzer. To Yankee ears, the name has just the right blend of the Euro-exotic & the easy-to-say. If it wasn't some horn maker's real name, then I'd say the marketing department hit a home run.
Did the Zalzer folks limit their output to horns? Or did they branch out into trumpets, trombones, tubas, euphonia, saxhorns, cornets, flugelhorns, etc.?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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I'll address the Zalzer horn. They were made in East Germany post-war and were imported in the United States in some quantities in the 50's and 60's.
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