Holton are renowned for their comparatively inexpensive professional horns in many styles.  This is a particularly lovely Kruspe-style full F/Bb double with a BIG, ambronze bell.  Ambronze is 'American' for gold brass - so it's an otherwise orthodox Kruspe wrap horn with a yellow brass and nickel-silver engine, but with the complete bell in gold brass (or 'ambronze'!).

It makes that BIG, 'Hollywood' sound which you either love or hate - as we all do with all horn sounds, I suppose.

Apart from just looking absolutely beautiful, there are those who will claim that the gold brass bell procudes a warmer sound than yellow brass or nickel-silver and this fine instrument certainly does not disappoint in any respect:  it plays beautifully, it sounds awesome and it looks a million dollars!

This is an inexpensive professional-quality instrument for someone who wants to make the Hollywood sound but doesn't want to spend a fortune.

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We have two of these beautiful instruments for sale currently.   In the classic Geyer style, they play superbly - very like an Engelbert Schmid F/Bb double in many ways but even more lightweight.

They're made in lacquered yellow brass and come with a screw bell and adjustable pinky hook and thumb lever - so you can get that all-important left hand set-up exactly correct.  They both have mechanical actions.

These are ex-demonstrators and they have tiny blemishes (a very small pin dent on the bell spout of one, a re-soldered stay on the rear of the other).  Apart from these minor flaws, the horns are as-new but are available at knock-down prices.  

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Thought by many to be the finest triple on the planet, Schmid's wonderful horn is incredibly lightweight and plays stunningly well.  If you're looking at this you'll know all about them, so I won't bother with a detailed explanation.

This fine horn is in excellent condition with just a very few tiny areas of missing lacquer.  It's a full triple in F/Bb/F alto and comes in yellow brass with a screw bell and a coffin case, also in excellent condition.

They don't use these in the NY Phil for nothing...

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