Steve/21 Jul 12 - 04:50 PM
"The Koot Brits".

RE: Many thanks for the reference.Looks nice but what is particular about it? Personally I do prefer 8 sides to 6 for anglo since I get a better resting position at the knee as the wrists come into a more relaxed neutral position.12 sides do not add anything to that issue - they rather make the resting position less stable. I have never been so keen on 12 sides for that reason. The only positive thing about 12 sides as I see it is if/when it offers more space and regular box arrangements and it actually seems as if there is plenty of room in the reed chambers in this model.This however usually is not as much of a problem with anglos as with too compact englishes or duets.With anglos the major jamming problem mostly occurs with the top row mechanism but the action board is not shown on the ebay presentation.
Buttons and handles seem to be the traditional - in my opinion severly dysfunctional - models...:-)
Conclusion for my part: Why bother to produce such a very nice new instrument when it is so profoundly wrong anyway and might have been improved by so simple and not very costly measures.For a maker who is working with drawings,materials, methods and templates which are already available you may understand the unwillingness to change but for a maker who starts "fresh" why not try to stimulate progress? The reasons may be:Either the conservative customer insists to have an obsolete trad instrument from Nostalgia OR the maker is obsessed by ambition to produce "according to old tradition" OR the maker hasn't managed to convince the customer that some details might be improved.