| Hi Elshaddai,
Sorry for not responding yet to your PM on this issue. Frankly, I'm really not sure why the wraps vary on cornets within the Reynolds line.
There are so many reasons . . . crazy things like changing vendors for making valve bodies on more economical horns (thus requiring a different wrap) . . .
Things like the economy horns being made at a different plant, or on different machines . . .
Things like maybe a desire to create a different "blow" for a different target market . . .
Things like new management coming in and developing new models the way THEY want 'em to be, vs. the "old" way. . .
Things like keeping costs down . . .
Gosh, I don't know. The finest Reynolds cornets seem to be evolutions of the W.H. White wrap that Foster Reynolds helped 'em invent earlier in Forster's life . . . and the Emperor seems to have adopted a more (at the time) "modern" long cornet wrap vs. the H. N. White (King Master) wrap.
HOPEFULLY, someone will chime in with the real reason . . . a reason that may be, sadly, lost to the ages.
"Old Geezer" who posts here once worked making high brass instruments for York. Hopefully he'll see this and chime in!
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful or definitive!
Warmest regards,
Tom |