My project of documenting brasses via photos may be known ad nauseam. But I find it interesting, and it is something manageable even in my less inspired periods (nothing bipolar, but allergy and arthritis being very dependable on weather conditions). Except exactly about reading Russian. Many Russian brasses come out of the St. Petersburg factory/brand. I can recognize their logo, but this one is different:
http://tinyurl.com/yts7no These fine horn lists have a quite stable membership, but also some fluctuation. Hence I dare repeating my extended signature (no horn solos, but quite a bit of quartet stuff and then lots of horns, including catalogue scans of pre-WWII Knopf, Paxman/Merewether, 1985-ish Hoyer, and the Yamaha 800 series custom horns): My download homepage has a link for the index of all my uploaded music files. You can download them for free, when I have received your reply to my "Welcome"-mail. Players already approved for the group in question of course have direct access. Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre of Denmark Retired teacher Index over 45MB+ of free music files in .pdf format to be found in the Files area of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterBBb/ (Approved membership required) Index over 2.3GB of brass instruments galleries and catalogue scans to be found in the Files area of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosIII/ (Membership is open for all) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org