Available with a quint 5th valve (right thumb) and flat half step 6th (left hand). The other lever for the left hand is a trigger on the 2nd valve slide.
The small tiny instrument is a corno di caccia.
Hilgers F is a Melton 46QH-S. The big BBb is a Melton 197. Hopefully soon I will be ordering a Melton 197 of my own!
The bass/contrabass player is Uwe Füssel, he plays bass trombone in the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, and the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
There is no better brass group on this planet. The precision, musicality, and sound of this group is unmatched the world over.
On the German Bras Webpage there is a link to the Thein-Homepage. For close-up pictures of Corno-da-Caccia check their "Instruments"-section.
Their line of trombones seems pretty scary, too:
apparently, they have everything from Piccolo-trombone (sort of a piccolo-trumpet with a slide, cute!!) to a double-bass trombone in BBb with FF-attachment.
I watched GB play these on one of their concerts. It was fun watching one of the trumpet players come on stage, producing a piccolo trombone from out of his jacket.
Hans
Melton 46 S
1903 or earlier GLIER Helicon, customized Hermuth MP
2009 WILLSON 6400 RZ5, customized GEWA 52 + Wessex "Chief"
MW HoJo 2011 FA, Wessex "Chief"
Six and a half years after the broadcast, I still haven't forgiven myself for not taping the 24 hour Bach programme. I watched a good deal of it, though.
Wow! I'm going to be following this for sure now! Nirschl and Hilgers! My favourite instrument maker and one of my all-time favourite players!
Do you think Walter will finally make an F for the market with Hilger's input? I'd be very excited to see that. Will this also mean it will be rotary valve? Hmm... My fingers just don't seem to like rotaries but I'd be willing to suck it up for the right horn.
More interesting is someone actually mentioning the name of Boehm and Meinl. I would love to see tubas coming out of that factory again. There is still nothing in the BBb market to compete with the B&M Symphonic 5500, as a largish 4/4 front-action piston tuba. It's bigger than the VMI 3301/PT-2P, smaller than the Willson 3100, and MUCH bigger than the King 2341. And if Herr Nirschl is still making the B&M valves rather than buying them, they are to die for.
Rick "thinking more BBb players are more upmarket than was once the case" Denney
