Dawn:
A good single F horn, by virtue of its lighter mass and often cleaner
arrangement of tubing, is often more responsive than the F side of an
equivalent double horn.
There is a Japanese website that has images from an old 1930s Kruspe
catalogue that includes several single F models. The url is:
http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicHall-Horn/2569/kruspe/krusp.html. You
might want to compare your horn with the images to see if it is one of
those models. If you don't have a broadband connection, though,
downloading the images might take some time.
Richard in Seattle
Dawn McCandless wrote:
To All,
Is the Kruspe single "just another horn" then to most people since it is a single horn? Or, could there be some significane to it because it is a Kruspe horn?
I still have an old Getzen single F (Caravelle) sitting around the house that I picked up at an auction in town, cleaned and have been trying to sell. I'll tell you what, the playability between the two, even if the Kruspe is just a single student model, is by far a better horn. It plays better, all except the sort of krinkled lead pipe makes the really high notes harder than necessary.
All in all, the only reason I'd keep it around is for an extra horn to have if my regular double ever has to go to the shop for a while for some unexplained reason. Still, though, it's kind of neat to have a piece of history.
I still need to figure out how to get on the Kruspe site. We are still working
with old phone lines and the old way of internet...
Dawn
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