Beautiful Helicon -- 1904 JW YORK Eb

[tmz1m]

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[tmz1m]

Yours? Or just something you saw?

It looks a lot like the Holton Eb helicon that was for sale recently, almost identical!

Sorry, not mine. Just thought it was cool.

[Donn]

There is a mechanism on the main tuning slide of this instrument that I am told allows it to play in Eb when it was originally in F. I believe that allows you to convert it back to an F instrument easily.

To me, the pictures look like the main tuning slide is all the way out. For an extra length of, I don't know, maybe less than 8 inches? which I don't think would be enough to get from F to Eb - but might enough to get a high pitch Eb to modern pitch?

[windshieldbug]

York didn't got to their extra tubing loop solution until 1910, so everything they had before that for horns that could do either high or low pitch was either the standard "extenders" or the standard "W"-type low pitch tuning slide.

w/1910 patent loop:


w/"W" main slide