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Yakeko · 01-16-2004, 12:45 PM

1. How I would improve a trumpet with a new feature or design:

- First valve trigger to make tuning easier.
- All finger hooks should be rings
- Amado water keys
- Stop-screw on 3rd slide
- Heavy valve caps gives stability to slotting. Also makes tone warmer.
- Valve top buttons could be made of bone or other natural material like that
- Removable leadpipe would be great if you plan to use different kinds of in future.
- Removable full silvered bell (in and outside)
- Bell diameter could be 5.0” and bore size .468 so that middle/upper register would be big and clear.

2. Give us a theme for a trumpet!

”CORONA"
This theme for trumpet is named after the golden ring around the sun, corona. This trumpet could be silver from the outside and have a ring of gold ( It would be lovely to have 24k gold plated ring) around the outer edge of the bell. Outside the bell there could be an engraved pattern of flames rising up from the golden ring of corona. The bell of this trumpet symbolizes the sun and the golden edge reminds the corona around it.

3. Write a short story

It was July and the summer was hotter than it had been for ages. Children were playing outside and the crop was in danger due to the burning sunshine, although the water was clear in the bay and pebbles were glimmering on the beach. It was a beautiful world indeed but it wasn’t so bright in the cell 247, where the window was like a small blue painting in the stony grey wall. One could see a piece of the horizon and few birds hovering but also a set of bars in front of the scene.
Roman, the prisoner 50703, watched the window all day and saw the sun colour the sky in the dawn and in the evening. He sewed all the tears in his dirty prison clothes and ate brown beans with watery soup, but he never gave up following the sun with his eyes. Roman wasn’t allowed to go to the exercise yard because he had committed a crime against the government. It had no relevance if the accusements were made up or not, and soon he had been captured on a charge of treason. He would have given up all his money and his small house with the chicken yard, but they took the most valuable item he owned, his trumpet, that he had played since the age of ten and ever since. Now Roman missed his instrument more than he missed walking outside or eating properly.
The sun that went pass his window twice a day kept reminding him of his grandfather who had played in the fields two decades ago, when everything was still fine in his native soil. Grandfather had brought the trumpet from Switzerland while travelling around the Europe by train and on foot trying to find his lost fiancée, who was taken away from him during the second world war.
Roman couldn’t play without his trumpet, but every day at one o’clock precisely he lifted his hands up, bent his fingers to reach the imaginary instrument and filled his lungs with air. He pretended to play the tunes he used to play, and so the days turned into weeks and months to years. Slowly the notes lost their places in his mind and he couldn’t continue playing them. Then he started to make up his own melodies. They had neither names nor the higher purpose. Ramon missed the music so.
One year in the All Saints Day prisoners got few candy in the tin foil paper. Roman folded his candy wrapper to remind a shiny trumpet. It was silver from the outside and golden from the inside. He placed it up to the windowsill where the sun could reach it in summer and make it look like it was shining its own light, the light of freedom, yet far but becoming closer every day. Then he raised his arms and spread his fingers again to make a trumpet to play. This time the notes came slowly back to him from the memories so far away and he played an old song that made him cry.

4. Why should i win this contest?

I am a young trumpet player who has been playing for 8 years. I play in the Big Band and several other bands and I have about 40 performances per year. I also study music. Now I use my old Bach strad but I would desperately need a new one because my Bach is in poor condition and limits my playing. This new trumpet would improve my ability to play.

01-16-2004, 12:45 PM	#38 (permalink)
Yakeko New Friend Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Finland Posts: 27	1. How I would improve a trumpet with a new feature or design: - First valve trigger to make tuning easier. - All finger hooks should be rings - Amado water keys - Stop-screw on 3rd slide - Heavy valve caps gives stability to slotting. Also makes tone warmer. - Valve top buttons could be made of bone or other natural material like that - Removable leadpipe would be great if you plan to use different kinds of in future. - Removable full silvered bell (in and outside) - Bell diameter could be 5.0” and bore size .468 so that middle/upper register would be big and clear. 2. Give us a theme for a trumpet! ”CORONA" This theme for trumpet is named after the golden ring around the sun, corona. This trumpet could be silver from the outside and have a ring of gold ( It would be lovely to have 24k gold plated ring) around the outer edge of the bell. Outside the bell there could be an engraved pattern of flames rising up from the golden ring of corona. The bell of this trumpet symbolizes the sun and the golden edge reminds the corona around it. 3. Write a short story It was July and the summer was hotter than it had been for ages. Children were playing outside and the crop was in danger due to the burning sunshine, although the water was clear in the bay and pebbles were glimmering on the beach. It was a beautiful world indeed but it wasn’t so bright in the cell 247, where the window was like a small blue painting in the stony grey wall. One could see a piece of the horizon and few birds hovering but also a set of bars in front of the scene. Roman, the prisoner 50703, watched the window all day and saw the sun colour the sky in the dawn and in the evening. He sewed all the tears in his dirty prison clothes and ate brown beans with watery soup, but he never gave up following the sun with his eyes. Roman wasn’t allowed to go to the exercise yard because he had committed a crime against the government. It had no relevance if the accusements were made up or not, and soon he had been captured on a charge of treason. He would have given up all his money and his small house with the chicken yard, but they took the most valuable item he owned, his trumpet, that he had played since the age of ten and ever since. Now Roman missed his instrument more than he missed walking outside or eating properly. The sun that went pass his window twice a day kept reminding him of his grandfather who had played in the fields two decades ago, when everything was still fine in his native soil. Grandfather had brought the trumpet from Switzerland while travelling around the Europe by train and on foot trying to find his lost fiancée, who was taken away from him during the second world war. Roman couldn’t play without his trumpet, but every day at one o’clock precisely he lifted his hands up, bent his fingers to reach the imaginary instrument and filled his lungs with air. He pretended to play the tunes he used to play, and so the days turned into weeks and months to years. Slowly the notes lost their places in his mind and he couldn’t continue playing them. Then he started to make up his own melodies. They had neither names nor the higher purpose. Ramon missed the music so. One year in the All Saints Day prisoners got few candy in the tin foil paper. Roman folded his candy wrapper to remind a shiny trumpet. It was silver from the outside and golden from the inside. He placed it up to the windowsill where the sun could reach it in summer and make it look like it was shining its own light, the light of freedom, yet far but becoming closer every day. Then he raised his arms and spread his fingers again to make a trumpet to play. This time the notes came slowly back to him from the memories so far away and he played an old song that made him cry. 4. Why should i win this contest? I am a young trumpet player who has been playing for 8 years. I play in the Big Band and several other bands and I have about 40 performances per year. I also study music. Now I use my old Bach strad but I would desperately need a new one because my Bach is in poor condition and limits my playing. This new trumpet would improve my ability to play.