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Originally Posted by Scooter01  Vintage refers to recognized enduring importance. It has nothing to do specifically with a certain age of product. Wine is a certain vintage depending on the year it was produced. The vintage can be good or bad. With art it refers to something created within a certain time frame of the artists life. With musical instruments I would use it to refer to an instrument made during the time that good instruments of notable quality and appeal were created. Therefore it could be 5 years old or 50. What is important is that it is desirable. |
So, vintage is more in the eyes of the beholder? Let me see if I understand this..........
There is one among many things that I do desire in the making of a horn aside from its perfection in construction is a high moral standard of the maker himself. I can't help to think that the trumpets made by old man Schilke, who was a very honest and good man, were better than the ones made now who have advertised Schilke trumpets with naked women. Now holding to your explanation above, people who "recognized enduring importance" of and find naked women to be "desirable" with their horns, just might consider the Schilkes made within the last couple of years to be "vintage"?
In this matter then a standard of what is desirable and important needs to be established before we can consider what vintage is or is not and this standard should be established outside of one's own personal desires and knowledge of importance, otherwise, it just boils down as to who wants what horn for what personal and not "universal" reason.
Actually, Scooter01, your post is very valuable for it has brought this thread back to the original question of this thread: What is Vintage? You are saying to my understanding that it means different things to different people and I am saying that there should be a universal standard.
If vintage is dependant upon indiviudal preferences, then there could be countless items involved here; however, if vintage is determined by universal standards then what would those standard be?
Liad