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Re: York Eb

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Great horns and this one looks nice but no curly cue, no "W" MTS, MTS pulled WAY out.

Looks HP to me but that can be fixed.
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KiltieTuba wrote:
bigtubby wrote:Great horns and this one looks nice but no curly cue, no "W" MTS, MTS pulled WAY out.

Looks HP to me but that can be fixed.
The main tuning slide looks odd. There's quite a bit of solder marks around the ends and it sort of appears that there are brass extensions to the crook.
I'm thinking it's just a poorly made MTS extension, given that no other slides are pulled out in the photos, so it'd be a little odd to photograph it with just the MTS pulled out. Compare the lengths of the MTS slide legs to the outer tubing it would fit into.
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I've seen others with this same modification (super-long MTS ferrules).

A serial # date of 1905/6 would be "pre-donut" (1911 patent), and more-than-likely high pitch.

It appears to be in very nice condition, but $999 seems a little steep....
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Here's the remnants of one in my shop that has the similar treatment - it appears to be a factory job (no ferrules - the MTS crook and extensions are all one piece) -

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Yes - there are two different bores on each side. However, the straight parts are cylindrical.

My guess is that when the horn was new, it probably came with two different MTS (HP and LP). The HP one was probably lost or discarded many years ago. I've got to assume the curly-cue patent in 1911 was made to simplify this issue (two tuning slides in one...).

It just appears to be an MTS crook with very long legs....
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