Genevieve is the newest member of the Osmun team.
We’re happy and excited to welcome Genevieve Rudolph to our team. Genevieve is a trumpet player and a student at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. She’ll be answering the phone, helping with customers, and helping to keep our display instruments in tip-top condition. You’ll find her here on Saturdays and some weekday afternoons (when her band schedule permits.) We look forward to working with her.
Here are a couple of new projects Bob’s been working on this week. The rims are Neil Sanders models in a metric size (17.5mm). Neil was one of the post-war generation of British players that also included Dennis Brain and Alan Civil. (He can be heard playing second horn to Dennis Brain on the legendary London Wind Soloists recording of the Mozart Serenades.) His rim featured a very wide, slightly inward sloping contour that provided great support with reasonable flexibility. Nowadays, they are particularly useful for players with braces or lip injuries.
The mouthpieces, in Delrin, were made for a player in a prominent German orchestra. Delrin is an ideal hypo-allergenic material for mouthpiece since it machines well and holds a true dimension.They are designed with integral tuning bits for a Cornford triple horn. By making the mouthpiece and bit in one piece we’re able to eliminate the point of turbulence at the end of the mouthpiece and also able to extend the mouthpiece backbore right to the bore of the instrument.
