MNW valve on an Edwards
- jwshim
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- Joined: Apr 09, 2021
I'm thinking about purchasing an MNW valve that currently fits Shires for my Edwards tenor. How would I have to go about this?
- Burgerbob
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I probably wouldn't, it would be some serious work to fit all the required Edwards fittings for your bell, tuning slide, slide.
- Matt_K
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- Joined: Mar 21, 2018
Surprisingly, the bell posts are actually exactly in the right spot. But you’ll need a tuning slide receiver and the Edwards threaded nuts since the threads are different. Id also probably swap out the slide receiver. So it’s a lot of work as Aidan indicated in some ways, but not insurmountable.
- hornbuilder
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You would need to have either the valve section, or the bell flare/tuning slide modified to suit. Either, make the valve section Edwards compatible spec (a lot of work) or, make the bell/tuning slide Shires compatible spec (less work than the first option)
- JeffBone44
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Doesn't Edwards make good rotors now? Simplest solution is to just get that, assuming that your Edwards tenor has an axial and you'd rather switch to a rotor.
- tbonesullivan
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- Joined: Jul 02, 2019
[quote="JeffBone44"]Doesn't Edwards make good rotors now? Simplest solution is to just get that, assuming that your Edwards tenor has an axial and you'd rather switch to a rotor.[/quote] As far as I know, this is correct. It's a different rotor than was used on their previous rotor model offered years ago. They mention that they took a lot of design cues from the Getzen Custom Reserve series. I do not know if it is the same rotor, but it looks kinda like it.
- Kdanielsen
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The AR valve is great!