Posted by Greg Crider on April 27, 2001 at 12:54:45:
In Reply to: Holton on E-Bay posted by Andy Smith on April 27, 2001 at 12:21:17:
This looks like a Holton I recently tried out that was made in France. However, this thing looks as if it had been Frankensteined. Look at the bottom picture. If the leadpipe goes around the way it shows, the tubing on the valves is on the wrong side of the horn. As bizarre as it sounds, it looks as if either (A.) someone turned the valve section backward in the horn,but the back large tubing doesn't match this idea, or (B.) someone tried to turn this horn into a left-hander and relocated the leadpipe around the wrong side and then right-left flipped the picture to hide the fact. Also, notice that the bell section of the case is on the right, not the left as is normal.