Originally Posted by
MarChant
I've always had my eye on the Alto/tenor horn, but never had the opportunity to play one, until a few months ago when I came across a vintage Mahillon from 1927 for cheap, so I dove right in. I absolute fell in love with it and have acquired 3 more since!!! (A BM Symphonic, a vintage Courtois from between 1927 and 1930 and an Olds Ambassador bell-front, wich I suspect is tuned in the key of F, but it is still in transit from the USA to The Netherlands) It is so much fun to play on them, I just can't put it down once I pick one up. It is so unfortunate that it is such an obscure, forgotten even, instrument outside the Brass Band world.