Originally Posted by richtom

Here is the ultimate tweak.
Blame your Bach for everything and put your Bach in a case and buy and sell 3 or 4 different brand horns over a 2 or 3 year period. Make sure the horns you buy are really very good instruments in their own right. Have friends who have good ears tell you you sound good, but sounded better on your Bach. Ignore their comments for 6 months or more before buying another horn.

Finally, after the 2 or 3 year, 4 or 5 thousand dollar journey, heed friends' advice and take the hidden away Bach out of case and play it, all the while knowing that Bachs are mass produced and should not play that well. Soon realize it is a whole lot better than you thought it was. Begin getting accolades on your sound/playing again.

I call this the "Hide and Seek" method.

Yeah, there are some some very, very good manufacturers other than Bach who really do make great horns, but why do so many of them -but again, not all of them - try to make a Bach "killer" or improve Bach's original designs?

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.