eclipse trumpets

Hi Bill

I think Trent is right, we do not really have a tuning bell in the schilke sense of the words at all.
We at Eclipse found that not having the front bracing especially was terribly detrimental to stability of the sound (just our thoughts of course)

So our bell is not tunable like that at all, it is fixed and soldered in the 2 traditional places all other trumpets are.
We then use the back bow of the bell as our tuning so that this is the only part that can physicaly move, the other parts are static.

I'll agree that my initial thoughts for the C in particular were to try and keep the leadpipe taper as long as i could for tuning reasons.
Other companies as you know are forced to cut that very short to accomodate the tuning slide.

I think the C trumpet works so well for 4 major reasons.

1. We tune our horn from the back bow of the bell and the rest of the bell is fixed! This i beleive enables the player to pass more of his energy into and through the horn without losing energy along the way on the steps traditional trumpets have at their tuning slide areas before the valve section.
2. We have managed to keep the tapered leadpipe as long as possible , maintaining that taper in my opinion is vital also to tuning of the horn and the response of any horn.

3. The quality of the materials we use are great and a pleasure to work with.

4. Let me not forget the help from the top Pro's that have input into the performance and sound of my Product.
And i suppose i would be bias , but i think we build them extremely well to our own hand made jigs, so we keep a fantastic continuity in quality and sound from one horn to the next.

The one thing i can add is that first and foremost i love all trumpets, cornets and flugels as i have repaired many thousands over the years and take great pleasure from doing it most of the time.

The guy,s who went before me (i am talking about the actual manufacturers) have my utmost respect and without which i would not be doing what i love.

The best thing for any player to do is to try everything there is if they can?
Then try everything they can with different mouthpeices as no one peice does all!

Then take your pick from what you can afford and what fits you best !!! Its simple really!

And it does not matter at all what the name is on the horn!!!! I think we all forget that sometimes!! The name will not help you to play better.

The combination of YOU first and foremost, the horn,the mouthpeice and of course study/hard work WILL!

Regards

Leigh

Anyone going to the ITG please fell free to come over and introduce yourselves as i would like to meet you.

JackD

How about an Eb / D?? (grins hopefully)