Liad Bar-EL

The "honesty" and "straight forwardness" of Andy Taylor might over whelm you concerning his horns being compared to Monettes for he deals with this very openly unlike even most trumpet makers IMO: http://www.taylortrumpets.com/frameset.html

Andy is an artist and an artist is not confined to one particular way of making horns like other horn makers, including Monette. You can explore Taylor's site to verify this: http://www.taylortrumpets.com/

Here is just a small sample of what he makes which is very much unlike Monette.

Phat Boy Flugel



Here are a close up of those valves that you wanted to look at 40cal.


Copper 'Hartfield Edition' probably the finest ‘Smooth-Jazz’ trumpet available.



Chicago Compact trumpet

It is seven inches shorter than a regular Bb trumpet. It has a slide operated by the thumb of the left hand that can de-tune any note by up to a semitone. This enables the player to bend any note at will. Ravi Shankar also plays semitones on his sitar and even claims to have perfect pitch; so, here you go with a perfect pitch trumpet.



Here are a few more of them that you can click to enlarge.

http://www.bestwebpix.com/toys_hobby...FUxhEgoddATRhg

Andy Taylor has been all over the world and in most major cities of the USA including Chicago attending and displaying his horns at almost all trumpet conventions. If you would have taken part in any one of those conventions, you would have already known about this trumpet of mine and would have played it yourself so as to make that comparison with the Wild Thing C Trumpet for its maker was also in these same conventions.

You might want to try and get out a little bit more.

Liad Bar-EL