Osmun Music Blog

All the recent financial turmoil in Europe has had one benefit for US horn players: The decline in value of the euro has made our Engelbert Schmid horns less expensive. Our standard Schmid double is now over $1000 less expensive than it was a year ago. (We’ve got a new one coming in this week). I’ve updated our price list. You can see it at http://www.osmun.com/prod/Schmid/schmprc.htm. Plus we have pages of information about Schmid horns at osmun.com.

This diagram reperesents three stock shapes for Osmun horn mouthpieces. The shaded area is our standard blank. Then green lines show our #2 blank. It adds about twenty percent more mass to the standard blank and has a little more core and stability at the expense (we think) of tone color.  The red lines outline our heavy blank, which is fifty percent heavier that the standard one.  It is extremely stable and focused but the extra weight makes it more fatiguing to play, especially in the upper register. The heavy blank can also be supplied with ribs, which lessens the weight and increases the surface area.