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Originally Posted by jazz9  Hello everyone. I wanted to ask if anyone had ever heard of or played this instrument. Right on the bell it says "DESIGNED BY VINCENT BACH- MERCEDES II." From the looks of it, it is an extremely old instrument, and it plays like one. The reason I even played it in the first place was that I forgot my horn at home and had to use it as a replacement for a day. I'm thinking it would be a pretty sweet horn if there was some serious work done to it. It is silver with some brass looking stains and some of the black stains described in a thread on this forum. Thanks
Jazz9 |
It is generally acknowledged that the Mercedes II was greatly inferior to the original Mercedes, as Googles searches will show.
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On the other hand, on rare occasions I have read people saying that they really like their Mercedes II a lot.
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So some possible explanations are that the original Mercedes was so great (just below a Strad) that there was no way that the Mercedes II could ever compare to it, or perhaps the Mercedes II of the 1970's had the same problem as the Conn Connstellations of the 1970's (poor quality control so that both good and bad specimens were coming out of the same factory every day).
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