| Kevin, two of the pull knobs were missing from mine when I first received it as well. My first "light cleanup" job involved sending the horn up to Calgary to my "local" guy (120 miles is "local" around here) and he found a couple of replacements (albeit slightly smaller). If you look carefully you'll see that there is now a little flat "thumb paddle" soldered onto the 2nd and main tuning slides to aid in removing the slide ends... and they are exactly the same shape as the one on the Eclipse trumpets; look at picture #7! (If I didn't say it before, Leigh is THOROUGH!). I'll bet he could easily put the thumb knobs back on yours however (he's got to have two or three left that he took of mine!). If you wanted more of a "slick" look, just pop the slides in "upside down".
By the way... just so nobody gets ideas... Leigh "converted" the Eterna to match as close as possible his own Eclipse line as a special favor from one Irishman to 1/2 of another (and 1/2 Scot and 2/2 Canadian). You'd have to ask him if he'd be willing to do the same for yours. Either way, as you can see he'll do one heck of a job! |