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Originally Posted by Tootsall  Looks like a good buy to me. The condition is really not that bad. |
Right. And I got it for $187 with shipping included which seems to me like a great price
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Originally Posted by Tootsall .. a few dents in the leadpipe which you might want to get corrected (I can most highly recommend Leigh McKinney at Eclipse ... pm me for my reasoning why). |
I am sure that Leigh would do a great job, but it is a bit far from Bulgaria, don't you think, Toot?
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Originally Posted by Tootsall I would expect the same quality in the Ambassador cornets as are found in the trumpets so there should be no worries there. |
I hope that too
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Originally Posted by Tootsall As far as mouthpieces; I would think that the Ambassador cornet would be designed more to take the typical "American" cornet piece which, as you probably know, has a "C" cup and a slightly longer shank than that of the Wick variety. I have tried a Bach cornet with both the American and Wick mouthpieces and the main difference seemed to be in the mellowness of sound with the Wick. |
It is just this mellow, fluffy sound that I look for when I play the cornet or the flugelhorn. For that reason I have always preferred V to C cups when playing the cornet or the flugel - it makes the sound so much distinctive and different from the trumpet. Why would I play the cornet if my cornet sound is trumpety? Though I am not sure how will this function in a orchestral setting against 2 trumpets...I'll see but hope I won't have to compromise my sound conception for the sake of sound projection and uniformity. It seems that Olds have changed the wider MP reciever just around 1956. With a bit of luck I will get a normal cornet shank to put mt DN MP in. Mixing the american and british cornet conception? An american cornet with a British mouthpiece? Why not? After all, there was many british brass-banders who left UK to go to US as it is the case, I believe, with the father of Phil Smith. I would not mind to play on a Besson, Smith&Watkins or any other top british cornet but for the moment I cannot afford one.
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Originally Posted by Tootsall Reckon you'll have to test that out on your own however. |
In a month when I get the horn as I said, I will post my first impressions on it and wether the Denis Wick fits in or not