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Discussions => Instrument Makes and Models => Topic started by: Nick Ray on January 17, 2019, 11:42:54 PM
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Whilst searching some old threads recently I came across one from a member looking to try out different 2.5 row 3 voice boxes for a potential upgrade. Another member responded saying he owned a number of said boxes and suggested he would be happy to be visited for the original poster to try out. (Still with me here? :-\).
I also am looking to try similar boxes but unfortunately have lost track of the thread. I am hoping to track that member down to see if he would make the same offer to me! The thread was 3 or 4 years old (?) and the offer came from someone who lives in South Wales as I recall.
So is he still on melnet or could the original post person remember?
Hopefully it might ring some bells with someone....hope so.
Nick
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I think it might have been me....though I only now have one 2.5 row D/G 3-voice box. That’s due to go up for sale soon, so you (or anyone else!) are more than welcome to come to South Wales and try it out...
Cheers,
Guy
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Thanks Guy. But what happened to all those other boxes? I think you had about four?
And which is it you'll be selling soon??
Cheers
Nick
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Thanks Guy. But what happened to all those other boxes? I think you had about four?
And which is it you'll be selling soon??
Cheers
Nick
Hi Nick,
I had a Castagnari Mory which I sold, and two 2-voice 2.5 rows, a Saltarelle which I also sold, and a Bernard Loffet "Graet y Breizh" which I'm keeping. The one I'm selling is a Loffet "Pro 2.6" 3-voice. I bought this as I intended to replace the 2-row and 2.5 row Loffets that I currently play with this one.
It's a lovely box, and really nice to play (as are all of Bernard's boxes that I've tried), but I've just not got on with it as well as I'd hoped. I don't quite know why, but the feel is just not right. I've spent quite a bit of time with it, but it just hasn't worked out for me. So, although it's effectively a new instrument and barely played in, I'm afraid it'll have to go...and, of course, at a second-hand instrument price.
Cheers,
Guy
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Thanks Guy.
I await the sale with interest (:).
Nick