Vulgano Brother

I'm all for making lamps out of saxes and bonfires out of violas, but a trumpet-hey, no way! There might just be some young kid living in poverty in your town, however, who has always wanted to play the trumpet, but has given up on that dream because of the expense (like my dream of burning violas). Better than a lamp, anyway.

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burgerbob

When you have a concert or gig, bring every trumpet you own and several you don't*, and put them all on stands around your chair... so you have, say, 4 different Bbs, a couple Cs, maybe a D/Eb or two, perhaps an F trumpet, a G picc, and two Bb/A piccs, one in A and the other in Bb, plus cornets in Bb, C, and Eb, a flugelhorn or two, and a pocket trumpet. That chinese Harmony will go great on one of those stands.



*hint- Only use your main Bb.

Jude

The current plan is to break it in gently (i.e., playing it to practice using the ring and saddle), flushing it out and oiling it until the manufacturing dust or whatever it is is gone, then giving it to the school to hand on to somebody or to use as a loaner. If it isn't still generating debris a kid might have a better chance with the valves. It doesn't sound as bad as I first thought - I might change the description from "tinny" to "very bright." And it's really pretty - a dead-ringer for a Richard Smith design. (Don't they have design patents for trumpets?)

Jude

A bunch of Harmonies (Selmans, etc.) could form the first line of defense for the rest against chatty, clumsy singers!

Jude

The beating-over-the-head alternative is what I'm going to hang onto the Olds Ambassador for. Like TR said (approximately), if you're going to carry a stick, make it a big one that won't fall apart in your hands.

burgerbob

With a second row of student Jupiters...
and a third row of King 600s...
and a fourth row of Yamaha 2335s...
etc.

krossum

How about...

Kelly Rossum - Movement for Trumpet in Three Pieces

piece.
-Kelly

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Jude

So I took this Harmony to my lesson to ask my teacher whether I could give it to the Music Director at the Middle School to hand on (without ruining some poor kid's chances of ever learning to play properly), and he played it for a while, and said it was a perfectly good student instrument. When I looked dubious, he switched horns with me for the lesson - he played the Harmony and sounded depressingly good and I played his old Bach Strad and sounded - well, the way I did all week. For a kid who may decide to go on to video games or an electric guitar or the viola next year, maybe some of these Chinese horns aren't such a bad idea.

tatakata

give those valves about 6 months and check back with us.

jth08

I have actually seen a fountain made out of an old trumpet, and i currently have one of my old trumpets at my friends house waiting for her to turn it into a fountain also =]