dow30

Congrats to all the winners and Many Thanks to Dillon Music for the contest!

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dow30
Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's that little voice at the end of the day that says. "I'll try again tomorrow."

gglassmeyer

Congrats to all, we'll expect pictures of your new baby!

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Greg Glassmeyer

65Strad

To those that were interested, below is my submission. I'm not sure of the outcome regarding the prize, i.e., standard Bb or C or some modification. Dillon will be discussing how it will all work out with the Bach folks and will let me know after they work it out. Thats all I know at this point, but I will be happy to post pictures when it comes to be. For my part, I'm still disbelieving. I sent my submission on July 1st last minute just for fun and I still can't believe it. It was fun and Dillon, Conn-Selmer, Trumpet Master made an improbable dream come true regardless of what the horn turns out to be. Congratulations to the other winners, this was an incredible and special contest.

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My dream trumpet is a compilation of classic Bach Stradivarius design features that have collectively helped to establish Bach Stradivarius trumpets as the choice of professionals throughout the world. These features were Vincent Bach’s designs that were incorporated at different periods of the company’s evolution.

Flexibility, responsiveness, excellent intonation, and ease of play; it is a friend for life with a comfortable and natural feeling, which transmits its voice through the resonance felt in my hands as well as its bell. It becomes part of me as I play it. It isn’t just brass and nickel; it is alive when breath enters it:



Lacquer Bb trumpet submission:

Bell: 43 Bell .020 gauge, side seam with a French bead made of gold brass, old style logo engraving

Bracing: Wide foot bell to leadpipe bracing and single main tuning slide brace narrow as Bach Chicago, hex pulls and 1st valve tuning ring

Leadpipe: number #7 leadpipe with longer mouthpiece receiver

Valve Case: Two piece, nickel upper section, brass lower. Stamp on 2nd valve block with ELKHART, IND
USA with square framing stamp (left hand side).

ML on opposite side with serial #

Body: Standard weight with all nickel receivers slides and slide rings, reverse 3rd slide stop

Valve barrel with serial numbers stamped

Brass guides stamped 1. 2. and 3

Classic style case (blue) w/ craftsman on case and inside

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Tom D'Antoni


'65 Bach 181 37 SN#30836 Brand New
'66 Bach 180 37 SN#39773 Brand New
'69 Bach 181 37 SN#58831 Raw Brass
'72 Bach 180S 43 SN#70503 1st Valve Trigger
'05 Bach VBS 196 SN# 560142 A/Bb Piccolo
'07 Bach Chicago C SN#656602

trumpetnick

Round and assymetric tuning slides are so much sexier, 65...but then this is much more spada/monette/posseger/NYTC/Eclipse/Taylor thing, right? Lacquer? isn't it too common? I like the idea of oldish engraving though

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Spada Bach B flat 72, leadpipe 2L/DWMM1.5C
Spada Bach C 256, leadpipe 2LQ/DWMM1.5C
1956 Olds Ambassador Cornet
Spada Custom Piccolo

If you don't know where you are going, you 'll end up someplace else

65Strad

Trumpetnick

Not sure about those other things, I just put what interested me at the time.

I'm just numb, grateful and appreciative, but not necessesarily in that order! First time I ever won anything in a contest.

Thanks to all for your generous congrats.

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Tom D'Antoni


'65 Bach 181 37 SN#30836 Brand New
'66 Bach 180 37 SN#39773 Brand New
'69 Bach 181 37 SN#58831 Raw Brass
'72 Bach 180S 43 SN#70503 1st Valve Trigger
'05 Bach VBS 196 SN# 560142 A/Bb Piccolo
'07 Bach Chicago C SN#656602

Trumpet guy

How 'bout those pictures?

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Daniel Lan
"In you're not improving, you're falling behind." - My Trumpet Teacher, Steve

Horns
Bach Strad 37 - Megatone 3C/3B
Bach TR300 (marching)
Berkeley Cornet
Berkeley Picc. Trumpet - Vincent Bach Corp. Mt.Vernon N.Y 10 1/2 DW
Jupiter Soprano Trombone - Megatone 3C/3B
Olds Ambassador Fullerton Trombone - Olds 12C

MJ

It's probably going to take more than a couple of days to build it.

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tatakata

congrats. be sure to post pictures.

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CHAMP

P H O T O S
N O W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no excuses.

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POW!!!

65Strad

No pictures to post at this point. Dillon and Conn-Selmer are discussing how the horn will come to be. I have no idea at all what they are considering. I have a feeling that it will take a little time whatever/however it will come to be.

The moment it happens, I will post pictures. Don't think for a second that I wouldn't want everyone to see it after I do!

Thanks for everyones interest, I can't wait.

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Tom D'Antoni


'65 Bach 181 37 SN#30836 Brand New
'66 Bach 180 37 SN#39773 Brand New
'69 Bach 181 37 SN#58831 Raw Brass
'72 Bach 180S 43 SN#70503 1st Valve Trigger
'05 Bach VBS 196 SN# 560142 A/Bb Piccolo
'07 Bach Chicago C SN#656602