Posted by Klaus on December 10, 2002 at 22:06:17:
In Reply to: Re: Re: TC in Puyallup 12/07/02 **with picture** posted by Mark Wiseman on December 10, 2002 at 13:48:30:
Hardly the same helicon.
The TC gathering show an instrument of the older (civil war era) US type with a modest bell throat and even more modest flare.
Your link points towards a widely flared US type that peaked about 80 years ago.
As for the civil war era type I will return to it very soon.
Klaus