Posted by Joe S. on January 15, 2001 at 20:17:31:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: OK, enough jawin' and worryin' posted by Klaus on January 15, 2001 at 09:27:49:
I picked this bell for two reasons:
-I REALLY liked the sound of it when I blew through it when still on its original body. ('had to stick a hunk of pipe in place of the valves, since this old instrument had NO pistons.)
-I realized that if I used it on this instrument, not only would it look nice and proportional when I cut it to fit the larger York Master bottom bow, it would also give me a huge headstart on the CC shortening job without screwing up the tapered branches.
(Sam Gnagey has done one of these using a similar strategy, and did a beautiful job.)