Re: Re: Re: Re: Huge Eb...


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Posted by Chuck(G) (long) on November 23, 2002 at 00:46:10:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Huge Eb... posted by Jay Bertolet on November 22, 2002 at 23:04:04:

As a matter of fact, the York Monster Eb Bass ad given in the link below states:

"...We now produce and instrument which practically supplies the demands of bands for BBb Basses, but which can be used by any Eb Bass player, as the fingering is exactly the same as that of all other Eb basses, and therefore the York Monster requires no special study...

So now we have the "why"--the Monster was manufactured to enable Eb players to sound something like BBb players without having to learn new fingerings. So if the big monster eefers sound more like CC instruments, they've fulfilled their design admirably.

I've got both a Willson 3400 and a couple of York Monsters here, so I measured down from the top of the bell to the area of the ferrule at the bottom bow (an average between the ferrule positions on the two horns). The difference in diameter was about 3/4"; the York is substantially "fatter" at that point.

Which may be nothing more than economy--York used the same bottom bow for both the BBb and Eb insturments; the bell for the Eb is only bit shorter and fatter. This also means that the side bows start out at the same diameter. This attempt by York to use common parts may be the source of some of the intonation quirks of the Eb monster.

Interestingly, this mismatch means that the Monster Eb Yorks probably are well suited to conversion to CC. At least the bell design (and some real bells) have found their way onto CC's and BBb designs, where the longer, narrower BBb bell is less used.




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