Well the mailman brought some great stuff to the house last week, I was tickled!

On the left we have an old Lyon & Healey gold plated Bb soprano,  complete with an engraving of Pan playing a flute!  It needs an overhaul but boy, I can't WAIT to get this horn singing again!

On the right we have an old Italian tenor,  I can't make out the name but it matches other horns made by Orsi that have various labels like La Mont, La velle, etc.  

This horn actually plays top to bottom pretty darn well!  I had to reglue one pad and put a piece of cork under a section of the octave rocker, but,  in the mean time we're gonna keep this one around!

Lucky for us we have a great friend and mentor in Portland who has quite the mouthpiece collection, while we were there this past weekend we were able to try out  a number of pieces for this tenor and found two nice old French hard rubber pieces that just make this horn sing.  

Feeling pretty lucky.