Silver and Brass Music Shop is a brick-and-mortar brass instrument restoration and repair shop located in Carson City, NV. For more information about our business, please feel free to visit our Ebay Profile at /usr/silver_brass_music  This is a custom Bb single horn. This horn is one of a series of horns that our shop built to experiment with different possible wraps and layouts for 4-valve single Bb horns. This particular horn was designed to be the most open and free-blowing horn possible, and also to be as lightweight as possible. Thus there are very few tight curves cluttering up the airstream, and the main body of the horn contains a grand total of 7 braces.This horn has a very big bell throat, which combined with a Conn 8D leadpipe gives it a powerful, full sound. The lack of backpressure and resistance means that it is also possible to play the horn very lightly and softly, meaning that the dynamic range of this horn is one of its strongest features. In the low register it has a lovely warm timbre, and in the high register it feels very open and free-blowing. If you would like to know what this horn sounds like then on YouTube there is a video of our local horn group with me playing on this instrument; here is a link to a decent video (disclaimer: I am not a professional horn player and this video is just our group goofing around at a local park. Please set your expectations accordingly.): /watch?v=4S9C_fBNgGI...and here is a link to all of the videos on our channel:/@sierrahorns/videosThis horn was built using mostly Elkhart-era Conn parts for the main structure. The bell on this horn is from a very early Conn 14D; the first few Conn 14D horns that were built appear to have been manufactured using NOS parts that Conn had lying around in their warehouses and wanted to use up. This bell appears to actually be an old Conn 28D bell, which means that it has the same dimensions as 1940s-1950s era Conn 8D bells, but made from yellow brass. The valve cluster appears to be an old 1930s C. F. Schmidt single horn cluster (I am not 100% certain of this)--I had it in my parts inventory. It was NOS, and had never been used or fitted to a horn before I built this instrument. The slides are obviously custom-built and fitted to the valve cluster. The 4th valve on this horn is currently an F-extension valve, although it could easily be fitted with a stopping-valve half-step style slide upon request. The 1st branch is also an Elkhart-era Conn part, the leadpipe is detachable and is currently an Elkhart-era Conn 8D leadpipe (an H-series I believe). Being that almost all of the parts are vintage, there are some imperfections throughout the horn. There are a few small dings and pings, and there is some scratching and etching throughout the horn. The valves move well with very good compression and the slides all move of course. The minor flaws are visible in the pictures, and none of them affect the playability of the horn. This horn is not lacquered; therefore the horn will develop a lovely "raw brass" patina over time. This instrument comes with a somewhat worn case and a mouthpiece for play-testing purposes, and of course the buyer is allowed a trial period to test the horn out once it arrives. If you would like to return the instrument then you will receive a full refund, but you will be responsible for the shipping costs.All horns are located at Silver & Brass Music Shop710 N. Curry St. Carson City, NV89703Unfortunately it is against Ebay's policies for us to include contact information in our listings, but if you have any questions at all about one of our horns please feel free to send a message.

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