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ldwoods
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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:19 pm Post subject: Eclipse no longer tuning bell style? |
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I had an early Eclipse Bb years ago and generally like it, but moved it along as I was buying and trying a variety of different trumpets.
I saw a new listing in the Marketplace and it showed the tuning bell model as I was familiar with years ago. I went to the Eclipse site and see that they no longer make a tuning bell trumpet?
Curious why and when they stopped making the tuning bell model?
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dstpt
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Eclipse no longer tuning bell style? |
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| ldwoods wrote: | I had an early Eclipse Bb years ago and generally like it, but moved it along as I was buying and trying a variety of different trumpets.
I saw a new listing in the Marketplace and it showed the tuning bell model as I was familiar with years ago. I went to the Eclipse site and see that they no longer make a tuning bell trumpet?
Curious why and when they stopped making the tuning bell model? |
Leigh McKinney kept getting responses from players who really liked his product, but that they had a hard time (or were "given" a hard time) due to the appearance. He and co-owner/worker Carl Skinner decided to make their builds in more of what is now considered with the "traditional" design of Bach, Yamaha, and most others, I guess you could say.
The only exception is the Enigma Bb model, which has a Changeable Leadpipe System (CLS). I have two of these with different bells and pretty much all of the leadpipes. Great players!...as is the Fusion model that I'm currently selling. It has a 2O (2 Open) leadpipe and plays very similarly to my other two that I felt it was best to sell. I might be selling one of the others as well soon.
I don't know the year they made the change in design from the tunable bell design to the more traditional look, but I think it may have been the early 2010s...2011-2013 or so? Don Cornelius at BrawBrass.com is a U.S. Eclipse dealer and should have the answers. |
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ldwoods
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@dspt thanks for the info, good luck with the sale
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