| OK thanks guys,
Your replies have inspired me to do a little digging of my own. It's an interesting phenomena...Harry Glantz's steadfastness about the use of Bbs for everything certainly seemed to be in the face of a wave of Cs being used by some very influential players (influential then and still today). As Wilmer pointed out it seems that one of the keys was the availability in the US of well made C trumpets provided by Vincent Bach (which are still coveted today). I'm beginning to think that this is one of the reasons that Bb piston trumpets still rule in England-availability or rather lack of it- that and the predominance of brass bands as 'nurseries'.
One of the great quotes I came across was from Mel Broiles who said that (paraphrased) as a trumpeter starts to play older repetoire the Bb becomes less appropriate (or words to that effetct)..and I can understand that. It's just that the original thought that occured to me in starting this thread was that there seemed to be a pre-occupation with making C trumpets in orchestral setting sound pretty much like Bbs, with large bore and large mouthpieces. Nick D pretty much explained that as well as that Petrouska link.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Trevor |