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Originally Posted by talcito  Hi Mark Bradley:
Just wondering how that Amrein that you have on your homepage turned out. I was bidding on that horn a few weeks ago up to the end, when my wife surprised me by walking into the room and I started to get finger paralyses and mumbling things even I did not understand......"Get up from the computer" was the last thing I heard from her that night.
Oscar |
It's really a cool trumpet (the 8121S Amrein). It's amazing because I had ordered this horn from Brasswind about a year earlier and came this (-) close to buying it at that time for $2600. I liked it that much but just couldn't realisticaly spend that much. This was the exact same horn! It must have been a liquidation deal resulting from them going bankrupt. This model sells for about $4000 in Germany and the rodium tipped bell is unusual and actually adds a few more hundred bucks. I talked to Sasha Amrien about this horn and it was made in 2004. A totally hand made horn, has the Baurfiend valves-- quite the work of art. The bell is unusual in that the flair at the end is so large mutes don't fit without extra cork. I happen to be selling it soon because I'm having a custom trumpet made by Charlie Melk (dinero an issue) so drop me a private line if you think you might be interested-- otherwise I'll probably put it back up on ebay one of these days.