Posted by Art H on January 27, 2002 at 00:31:53:
In Reply to: Re: what was the first horn you played? posted by Ray noguera on January 26, 2002 at 19:49:55:
Mine was a horribly beat-up tarnished brass conn Eb with a tuning slide extension to bring it down from old high pitch. When I played at my first solo contest the adjudicator remarked about the "typewriter valves". Then my dad had it overhauled to like-new condition. After I switched to BBb he started quite a few other kids on that horn. Now it sits in my basement in practically the same condition that it was in when I first saw it almost 50 years ago.