Posted by Alex on February 27, 2001 at 21:37:05:
I've played Nirschel's copies, Hirsbrunner's copies and one of Yamaha's copies. They were all fantastic horns but I definitely preferred the Yamaha. Jim Self told me the biography when he let me play his, but I don't remember: Isn't the Yamaha copied from the York which Nirschel and Hirsbrunner did not copy?
Either way, I've started buying lottery tickets in the hopes of one day affording one.