| I asked the question in this thread of 'vintage' as a noun and you are defining it in terms of an adjective but never mind we'll make up something if Oxford and Webster can not get to the bottom of this. Oxford seems to be interested in wine and cars whereas Webster includes and yet goes beyond the wine/car aspects of this word……"a collection of contemporaneous and similar persons or things: CROP; a period of origin or manufacture (a piano of 1845 ~); length of existence: AGE.
I tend to think that the quality of vintage is a quality that has ceased to exist in manufacturing of like-products and can not be duplicated again even though like-products continue to be manufactured. In some respect, the vintage item(s) remain(s) as one of a kind.
In terms of a Schilke or any other horn that was made many years ago can not compare to the high precision technical manufacturing standards of today; however, there is an "artistic" value which no technical manufacture can duplicate and it is this value which determines the "worth" of the horn to be defined as vintage.
If this is true, then if Bach one day starts making their horns to not sound like the Bachs of today, then every Bach that was made during that previous time period would be vintage horns. Thus, this could fall into the 5 year period that Scooter1 mentioned.
How does this sound?
Liad |