Posted by Klaus on March 01, 2003 at 00:31:35:
A week or so ago we had a thread opened by Dana Howe partially on a Besson 3 piston bassbone in F.
I wondered if it really was in G, but was wrong about that. A few hours ago Dana sent me a photo of the elaborate bell engraving/stamping.
That revealed the reason for that instrument not being in G. It simply is not British, but comes out of the (original) French Besson maker of Paris.
Due to Yahoo's reshuffling/optimizing of their photo servers, the photo hopefully appearing above here is bound to disappear soon, but all of the 3 photos of this instrument can be seen via the link given below here.
Klaus