Taylor

Hi.

I take your point, but I can only quote that old saying 'the grass is always greener on the other side'.

I make trumpets, and some very fancy ones sometimes, but I'm not a 'trumpet player' in the same way you guys are. I can play, but choose usually not to outside my workshop walls. I look at and make horns all day. At the end of the day I dont really fancy practicing and playing them as well, I've had enough. To me its the creating, the making, not the playing I enjoy.

Guitar is what I play because I 'enjoy' it. Like I said before, old faithful stays with me, but the back up axe is fair game, and I've got through a few! even made a few for fun and only ever kept one of them, and that looks a wreck now, no-one would want that one.

I've got some real nice ones on the shelf, but I dont have a 'private' collection of trumpets. Any trumpet is fair game to the checkbook as thats my living. I read some of these postings and some of you seem to have enough horns to use a different one every day of the week!

The two trumpets and one flugel that I did make for myself did sucumb to the checkbook because after doing it and enjoying it for a little while I thought, Mmm... I could make a better one, so next one is Er, different. Its a bit like you 'musicians'. You play something a certain way for a while then something in the back of the head says, hey I can move this on in a different direction, and thats cool. After all 'Autumn Leaves' isnt written in stone is it? You play it 'your' way, and I dont care who you are, that interpretation will change over the years. And likely as much, so will the choice of equipment.

Food for thought.

All the best.

Andy Taylor.
Taylor Trumpets.