Post by eclipse on Oct 9, 2003 15:51:40 GMT -5
We at Eclipse have always always enjoyed the input from the people who actually end up buying our products!
We think this is an essential part of the development process for any instrument.
Just to shock the people on here that do not already know, neither i or my partner John can play a single note ( and i do mean a single note)
Well i think Bruce Lee heard my attempt over the phone once and had to reach for a large bottle of Prozac!
The fact is we are 100% sure that it is this inability to play that has enabled us to make what we believe to be very good instruments.
Why so?
Because we do not have a personal preference of sound or feel ourselves.
This i feel can be a distracting thing when making horns as you tend to naturally make a horn to sound the way YOU actually like it to sound, and not for the guys /girls out there!
So what generally leaves the Eclipse Factory is an instrument that has evolved over the development period from the likes and dislikes of hundreds of trumpet players from all backgrounds of trumpet playing.
Of course this does not mean to say that we do not know what we like to hear come out of the bell, we both have our own particular favourite horns in the range.
And as for experience, well we have over 45 years of collective knowledge in this Trade.
We are developing our flugel horn and hope to launch it at the ITG in Denver next year!
I would like if you have 5 mins to melt your brains a little and ask just what it is you would like to have a flugel sound like! and also how you'd like it to feel in your hands(position of things etc etc
I know one thing, and that is you cannot please everyone, but we do like to try and please a lot!
We are very lucky to have Henry Lowther and Noel Langley play testing at every stage of the build process, and i am sure that we will have the benefit of Mr Kenny Wheelers input also.
Best Wishes
Leigh
We think this is an essential part of the development process for any instrument.
Just to shock the people on here that do not already know, neither i or my partner John can play a single note ( and i do mean a single note)
Well i think Bruce Lee heard my attempt over the phone once and had to reach for a large bottle of Prozac!
The fact is we are 100% sure that it is this inability to play that has enabled us to make what we believe to be very good instruments.
Why so?
Because we do not have a personal preference of sound or feel ourselves.
This i feel can be a distracting thing when making horns as you tend to naturally make a horn to sound the way YOU actually like it to sound, and not for the guys /girls out there!
So what generally leaves the Eclipse Factory is an instrument that has evolved over the development period from the likes and dislikes of hundreds of trumpet players from all backgrounds of trumpet playing.
Of course this does not mean to say that we do not know what we like to hear come out of the bell, we both have our own particular favourite horns in the range.
And as for experience, well we have over 45 years of collective knowledge in this Trade.
We are developing our flugel horn and hope to launch it at the ITG in Denver next year!
I would like if you have 5 mins to melt your brains a little and ask just what it is you would like to have a flugel sound like! and also how you'd like it to feel in your hands(position of things etc etc
I know one thing, and that is you cannot please everyone, but we do like to try and please a lot!
We are very lucky to have Henry Lowther and Noel Langley play testing at every stage of the build process, and i am sure that we will have the benefit of Mr Kenny Wheelers input also.
Best Wishes
Leigh