Posted by Rick Denney on February 16, 2004 at 15:14:58:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AMERICAN & GERMAN posted by GC on February 16, 2004 at 15:05:28:
No, not a new category, just the realization that the boundaries of the categories are fuzzy and indistinct.
I agree that the bell and branches of the Jupiter would look completely natural with a rotary valve section. So much goes into the sound of an instrument that it's hard to tell the effects of just, say, the bell, or the leadpipe, on the overall result.
Chuck and I were doing some thinking about the York Masters, and I think we've just about decided that one of those would look completely natural with a rotary valve section and a Miraphone 186 bell. It also has, to my Holton-influenced ears, an in-between sound.
Rick "who thinks the Miraphone 191 is a hybrid as well" Denney