I miss black and white. I know you can still do it in the digital age, but it's just not the same as watching that image come up in the developer tray under the darkroom safelights. That was as close to magic as we ever achieved in the postmodern world.
@Niner You will notice a "brick" on the left end of my "shelf museum" of retired cameras. My mother gave it to my father some time in the 1950s. It was very slow to use -- but not as slow as my view camera -- and we did indeed have our share of double exposures in the Kodachrome carousels.
Here are the ones I have on display in my "museum." I used all of them at one time or another, as part of my work as an architect. But digital is so much faster and flexible I haven't used film in quite a few years, at this point. I used to have a good 4x5 Omega view camera, which is one of the few I sold. The view camera shown here is a "build this camera yourself from our kit!" version. It actually works, but you would never use it in a professional situation.
Going from memory, the first keyed bugles appeared around 1800, the first rotary valves in the 1820s, and the first piston valves in the 1830s, so the date of 1813 is right on the money. The Haydn trumpet concerto was written in 1796 and was first performed on a keyed trumpet not entirely unlike this bugle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Concerto_(Haydn)
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When I lived in Tennessee, I went to grad school with a woman who had grown up in a small, rural Tennessee town with two profoundly deaf parents. She was a great friend and wonderful study partner, but the combination of a strong accent and a lisp (which is very common among children of profoundly deaf parents) could be a real challenge. Remember the movie "Nell" from a few years ago? Well, it wasn't that bad, but there were some similarities. (And "Nell" was filmed very near where we lived.)
Well, after William the Conqueror invaded England, a whole bunch of British noblemen were actually of French heritage. Many of them didn't even speak English. Henry IV was the first English King to actually speak the English language with native fluency. There are a whole lot of British people with French names. Would you prefer that Capt. Picard sound like this guy?.....
Wow. Nickel allergy is somewhat common, but I had never heard of anyone with silver or gold allergy.
Yes, but selling the tooling does not necessarily mean the company is defunct. They could subcontract production of major parts and subcomponents to others (China/Asia) and continue with final assembly in California, thereby continuing the existence of the brand as a "made in USA" company. Or they could sell out to an Asian buyer who would move production overseas but continue selling the brand in the USA. I'm kind of glad they didn't do those things, but they were possibilities.
Also, it will be interesting to see what BAC does with that tooling. They apparently did not buy the Kanstul brand or intellectual property rights or any of those things. They could use the tooling to make/sell aftermarket replacement parts, or they could develop their own "boutique" brand. (BAC already had their own "boutique" brand, but they could expand it offering "tribute" models to Kanstul, Olds, Benge, Martin, and some of the others for which Kanstul had the tooling.)
Kanstul made it official. Per their website as of today (7/23/19).....
Thanks to all our friends for a long run
And it has been a long run.
67 years ago, Zig Kanstul first began crafting brasswinds, and though the master himself passed in 2016, our family has carried on the tradition of building a broad line of brass instruments with an unrelenting focus on the sound.
However, we came to a point where it was no longer viable for us to continue.
We want to thank all the players who have made music on our horns over the years, from the casual players, the band members, the drum corps sections—to the professionals in the pop, rock, jazz, symphonic, mariachi, and Hollywood soundtrack genres—and everyone in between.
We’d also like to thank our indispensable design collaborators who over the years worked with Zig to create so many horns that made history.
Also, thanks to our dealers and resellers, and of course our private-label partners who have kept so many iconic instrument designs available to the serious playing community.
This website will remain online for the foreseeable future, as an archive of Kanstul history and product information. Inquiries regarding archive status and Zig book orders may be sent to scott@eyemotive.com.
