| I thought I would toss a couple of comments out there in regards to Kanstul horns and the Super ZueS.
Someone mentioned that you can't really review a prototype. When I was with the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, we contacted Kanstul in the hopes of finding someone that could make some custom bugles for us, something that looked like a small bugle, yet had a thumb valve so that you couldn't really see it from the side, yet you would still have some additional musical flexibility. Kanstul sent us out two prototypes, a one valved model, and a two valved model. They were both excellent and played every bit as good as the production models that were eventually made for us when he won the contract.
In regards to Kanstul instruments, I own a Custom Class flugel with a copper bell, and it is an excellent flugelhorn. I have yet to play a horn made by Kanstul that wasn't an excellent horn, to include a friend's Chicago Series Bb produced in the mid 90s, and a Besson pic ("Valves made by Kanstul" stamped on the valve block) that I owned for a while.
Granted, Flip may have played the prototype and not cared for it, but it most likely is a fine horn anyway, and just because Flip doesn't necessarily like it that well, doesn't mean that the majority of us aren't going to just love it. Personally, I can't wait to try one out.
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