We have had discussions about mellophones and descant horns before. The American mellophones come in a lot of variations, mostly with pistons, and rarely looking anything like descant horns.
Czech/German mellophones mostly have 3 rotors for the right hand. A few have 3 rotors for the left hand, but both types most often have a characteristic open wrap main tuning slide parallel with the 1st valve slide, so I rarely am in doubt whether given samples should happen to be descant horns. However an instrument engraved FRIEDR. SCHLOTT GOHLIS-LEIPZIG Gohlis is a quarter in Leipzig. You can see the instrument here: http://tinyurl.com/ftla4 First of all I believe, that the slides for the main tuning slide and for the 3rd valve have been switched by an error. What makes me suspect a descant horn is the wrap of the main tuning slide, which slightly reminds me of AlexanderÂ’s way with their G and F descants. I also find the overall bore being smaller than on mellophones. Maybe some of you know an instrument like this one. A quite original way of wrapping a single descant horn may be seen here http://tinyurl.com/zy4l3 It was made while Germany still had courts. It has tubing enough for a good leadpipe taper and for a long tuning slide. But then it also has more fake tubing. That is tubing with no sound-waves travelling through it. Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
