Quote from: sabutin on Jan 28, 2007, 06:34AMI have tried...to no avail...to interest several major makers in producing a full line of TIS horns over the past 15 years. I am happy that some people are doing so, and cannot wait to try them.
I understand the reluctance of various companies to invest the requisite time and money in the design and manufacture process of a new (old) idea. You KNOW that the instruments will have to be tweaked and tested; you know that the trombone world is quite conservative...especially the major money markets for high end horns, universities and orchestral players...and you know that even if a major company hit a solid home run on say an orchestral tenor, smaller tenor and bass in TIS form, it would STILL take years for those designs to filter down through the ranks from us horn crazies to "Dad, I need a TIS horn so hat I can blend well at Juilliard."
Or wherever...
I predict that if someone does so...I mean hit a real home run, produce horns that are the equal of (if not superior to) the classic '30s Burkle Conn designs...they will take over the high end of the market in much the way that Edwards, Shires, Rath and now all the smaller European makers have done over the last 10 years or so.
But it's a gamble.
And the way the world economy is set up right now, gambling is risky. Everyone is running scared of the crash.
This current crop of high end instrument makers...they ALL started during the Clinton boom years.
Since Clinton got honey trapped...it's been all downhill.
Bush jazz, Bush orchestras, Bush schools, Bush money, bush league.
So it goes.
Come the upswing...maybe then.
We shall soon see.
I certainly hope so.
Later...
S.
its sad... we've just about hit the upswing this time around... with the fed jumping interest rates again to slow the economy, were going to have to wait a while till we get to the next peak, where something like this can happen.
i don't think it's the "oh, i need this TIS horn to make me all i can be musically", either. its more of a "well, this is nice to have", or, "this is another tool in my arsenal", or, "this is the one horn i've been looking for forever" for those few who the horn and TIS just totally mesh.
because of these reasons, it is seeming like a more "boutique" horn, even in the future of them possibly becoming more available.
who knows. we might get lucky? either way, with there at least being some availability, i think that the market is going to either stay the way it is, or only grow very slowly at best.