btw, the auction ended last Feb...
Slotted neck, like the SMLs. Which is interesting, as Raymond Dubois made some stencils for SML.I see right hand pearls for high D, E, Eb, and F, plus left or right hand low C#, adjustable thumb hook, RH G# trill lever, and forked Eb. Miss anything?
Hey, Helen! You need some B&S pics on your website. Here's a start! (I need to find that username/pass you gave me ....)
What I love is when people start using percentages. Hey, if the surface area of your horn is 100 square inches, 10% finish missing means that 90 square inches are perfect -- and 10% missing will look pretty darn good, if you're talking about 10% damage over the entire 100 square inches! For me, when I see someone using percentages to say how minty the horn is, 9 times out of 10 the horn is missing over 50% of its finish.That guy has an interesting definition of "scratch free"...
It's a "Pare," not a "Rare," BTW.
August 9, 1886 -- L'Association generale de ouvriers en instruments musique received a patent which allowed Bb to be played with 1+1, 1+2, or 1+3. Also a front Bb akin to the front Eb on the clarinet, a front F similar in function the the clarinet's front Bb (Chalumeau register) and a side C key were added. The first finger on the LH had a half-hole mechanism which served as the small B - G1 octave key, and the middle finger on the RH had a half-hole mechanism for D3 and D#3. The RH little finger had keys for Eb, C, and C# while the LH little finger had a key for C# which did not require the addition of the RH C key to play low C#.