You mean it is not a Donna-Telly?bloke wrote:The bell is reported at 22" diameter but this is not a "Orchestra Grand".
The bottom end of the bell is only 4-3/4" in diameter.
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I had a 28J once. It had a 22" flare and a very small stem. It was a front-action horn though. Strange looking horn!
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Does anyone know who won that auction? I NEED that bell... 
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It played OK. ... just OK in my opinion, anyway. Understandably, those horns were built in the day when 'bigger was better'. Conn liked to put bigger bells on old model horns and call them 'improved'.KiltieTuba wrote:how'd it play?TubaTinker wrote:I had a 28J once. It had a 22" flare and a very small stem. It was a front-action horn though. Strange looking horn!
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I saw, but did not play, a helicon with that same exaggerated flair into a very large bell. They take on a cartoonish visual aspect when the bell is out of proportion like that.