minstrel: Plastic crumhorns

[Ellen Rawson]

For years, I've wanted to learn how to play the
crumhorn.  Back in the '80s, Boulder Early Music sold
a plastic crumhorn, but I never bought it.  Yes, I
know -- how terrible, a plastic crumhorn.  However,
with the cost of crumhorns, even they thought it's a
cheap way to decide whether or not you want to invest
so much money in an instrument.

So, I never bought it.  But lately, it's been on my
mind.  A couple of weeks ago, I was in Leeds (UK -- I
moved to England about three years ago from Boulder)
for an SCA event, and I made a quick side trip to The
Early Music Shop in nearby Bradford.

No, they don't carry plastic crumhorns, but they
thought they still were made -- in America.  Boulder
Early Music's website doesn't list them. Does anyone
here have an idea where to locate one?

Ariel

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