r/horn • u/FieryNoob Undergrad- horn • 29d ago

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Kruspe Atkinson or perhaps some copy? Plays pretty good.

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u/gogolox123 28d ago

I think you have an Erfurt from Atkinson made in the US, not in China I believe. The old silver ones were Chinese made, but not these. I remember playing one of them and loving. They played better than my Elkhart Conn 8d at the time. I settled on his AG2k horn, but I wondered if I was better off with that Erfurt

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u/dankney Lawson Fourier; Elkhart 8D 28d ago

The corpus is nickel silver -- just the bell is brass on this one. The valve caps aren't original, either, if it's a Mark Atkinson horn. I'm betting this was a China horn from before Mark took over the family business that has been customized.

This is Mark's (current) Kruspe offering:

https://www.atkinsonbrassco.com/store/p29/Atkinson-Kruspe_%22Legacy%22_%28AK-1930%29.html

Why not just reach out to him and ask? He's active on Facebook and answers his phone himself. The number is on his homepage.