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Chet played a whole bunch of different horns over the years. He kept pawning them to buy heroin.

The very-obtuse-angle bell braces also look like Committee (0:49). If I heard the audio without the visal, I would probably say "maybe Committee, maybe not."

Played yesterday for a city event. They left today for families.

@flugelgirl

https://www.facebook.com/stephenrmaris/posts/10157080911891285

@Trumpetsplus Ivan: I know you're an expert, but I have owned quite a few vintage horns and I have never had one where the bell looked very shiny, but the area around the valves had this weird craquelure / scratch look. You don't suppose the player actually had a prosthetic hand or something like that, do you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craquelure

@Kehaulani Good answer.

@J-Jericho Absolutely agree. I always wondered why they used Monel, since it is metallurgically difficult to work with. But I have to agree that my (Schilke and Bach) monel valves are better than my nickel-silver (Getzen) valves or (!) stainless steel (Dillon) valves.

Only a guess, but it doesn't look like "original lacquer" (as advertised). The bell is too shiny and pristine for a horn of that age with original lacquer. It looks like it might have been re-lacquered at some point without proper surface preparation around the valves.

@J-Jericho Hmmm... The link works on one of my machines, but not the other. Will try to re-post to a different site. Thanks.

I said that earlier today in regard to my Schilke cornet valves. By "best" I mean smooth, fast, and reliable. However, "reliable" is the most important. My horns that occasionally have valve reliability problems are:

Getzen D/Eb -- valves occasionally balky or "hang" on the upstroke; also the threads on the caps don't fit perfectly
Olds Super -- valves occasionally balky or "hang" (but they have significant wear)
Yamaha flugel -- valves occasionally balky or "hang" on the upstroke
Kanstul flugel -- valves occasionally balky or "hang" on the upstroke

However, I don't play these horns every day. They sit in storage for long periods of time, which doesn't help. After being oiled and played daily, they loosen up. (But the Schilke cornet also sits in storage for long periods, without problems.) My "daily driver" is the Bach 37G. It has very good valves, but the Schilke valves just seem a little smoother somehow.

It's not vintage, or rare, or custom built, or any of those things. But it just plays great and is the ideal horn for a small room. Schilke XA1. And it has the best valves of any of my horns.
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Here's what mine sounds like.

https://photos.google.com/u/3/album/AF1QipPzN6DiAJt1ykfEdj-CLQwVc2KmOVdxDOexu0fy

But,... but.... the Zestimate is only $1,061,675. "The list price and Zestimate for this home are very different, so we might be missing something." Yes, Zillow. You're missing the fact that it is a 50,000 square foot house and not many people even want such a thing.

@administrator. Thanks.

(650) 593-3050 is the phone for Hornucopia, 1549 Laurel St, San Carlos, CA 94070.

In Silicon Valley, you might expect every business to have a web presence and online store, but they don't. (I don't think.) It's very old fashioned, but that's one of the things I like about it.