I have to wonder if they started using Klier earlier. I've got a bugle that was made on-order in mid-2020, and it came with a 7C that was unlike any of the heavyweight Amati pieces, except the "AMATI 7C" engraving. It was the same thin engraving seen on the heavy pieces. The blank was Bach-style, but the collar was a round bulge, and the exterior was something like some of the vintage Buescher/Elkhart or Martin/Indiana trumpet pieces from around 1910-1920. I'll have to photo that soon...
@Jolter said in Amati-Kraslice - the ones we love to hate?:
@ConnDirectorFan That's very interesting to hear, that JK are now providing their mouthpieces. So they got out of that business altogether, then.
I never saw their 7EW, but I bought a new 7DW when I visited Praha in 2004 or so. It had a wide rim, which was quite flat, a fairly sharp inner bite and a tiny tiny cup in a heavyweight blank. (Not quite megatone-weight but something like that.) I was coming from a Yamaha 11C4/7C and was hoping for just that little push in endurance/range. The honeymoon was nice. Unfortunately my intonation and tone suffered, and this was when I first discovered my lips are too big to be able to play extremely small sizes. I was young and stupid but a senior section member clued me into that my new mouthpiece was not helping my playing.
(The wide rim promoted some bad habits, too, like I used a lot of pressure those days...)
I passed the MP on to a donation drive, instruments for poor students. Hopefully one of them had thin lips...
Their 7DW cornet piece pre-2000s was...interesting. Brighter sound, but not a "screaming lead" by any margin...! It came straight from the factory wrapped in paper, in a newer Amati box with product code A90 7DW and UPC 8 591278 023119...
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