> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard V. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Well then, this would be an ideal time to start a Yamaha > thread. Who plays what kind of Yamaha on this list? I know > there have been some individuals on this or the other list > who worked with Yamaha during various stages of horn model > development in the past. Any comments from them? Do people > have a "favorite" Yamaha? The "worst" Yamaha? What about the > new Yamahas?
We own a Yamaha 666 (predecessor to the 668, made from roughly 1980-85) that's a lovely horn in, IMHO, the 8D tradition. I played it for a while, now it's my son's main horn, and I suspect it will come back to me sooner or later. We owned a 667 for a while, manufactured in 1991, that's in the small/medium bell horn tradition. A pleasant enough horn for what it is, to be sure, and sounds lovely in the right hands, but I had occassion to borrow an Alex 103 a few month after acquiring the 667, and that was the end of my playing the 667. (I eventually settled on an Alex Bb single with a C trigger as my main horn.) -S- _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
