| Hi all,
The 25s pipe is the cut down Bb pipe and I only recommend this pipe for player that have to play a C trpt only “ Now and Again “ and want it to feel as much like a Bb as possible.
The buzz about the 25s name change is because Shuelter is now with Monette so Bach , who really protects it’s name and image, wants no association between the 2. One well known Bach endorser, here in S. Cal had to have his Reeves mouthpiece, re-cut into a Bach blank by Reeves so when he does clinics and public apperences, the perception is that he plays a total Bach set-up.
Bob Malone was out in Los Angeles for quite a while before his move to the Yamaha plant.
He started with a brass re-pair shop in the Los Angeles area. He not only tweaked the Yamaha and Bach C’s but really started out tweaking the Bobby Shew Z’s for Bobby’s friends and students. Bobby Shew and Bob Malone are very good friends. Little by little, the legit community started to show up to get there stuff “ tweaked “ , guys like Boyde Hood and Tim Morrison.
ON the Z’s, Bob would open up the leadpipe slightly and some other magic, then Bobby would come down and play them. By the end, most of the Z trumpets were ‘ Malonized “and played by Bobby and sent out to retailers.
Bobby was the one who got Malone with Yamaha designing the Malone C for a standard Yamaha product. Bob Malone is also helping with a new tuba, copied from the one he made for Jim Self - #1 tuba call in LA recording.
Hey, TM
I posted on the Calicchio site my dilemma with a newly acquired Bach LB, C – tunable bell –
Very early Elkhart – with a 238 (vinabonna) G bell.
What leadpipe would you suggest for this trumpet? Would you go reversed?
Would you cut down a Bb #6 to offset the big bell? Someone had put a Pilchuk on it now and I don’t like it. What Blackburn would someone recommend?
Would anyone out there help me out on this one?
Larry |