Originally Posted by Gaucho Viejo

I just joined up here and thought instead of the usual "hello, my name is" first time post I'd jump in with a response to an interesting older thread I happened upon.

I was in a pawn shop in North Idaho (University town) and found a Holton ST200 - Bud Brisbois Bb trumpet. The guy wanted $200 for it. I put the mouthpiece in it and tried to get a sound out of it and got the breath stuffed right back down my throat. I took out each of the valves thinking one had been put back in backwards and the numbers were all facing the same direction. The guy says to me "you can't get a sound out of it either, huh? How about $180?" I bought it, took it home and looked more closely at the valves. The holes on the second valve, even though it had the number facing the MP, didn't line up but I could see that, if I put it in "backwards" it would. Once that was done it played great; a little brighter than what I was used to but it is my first silver horn and Brisbois was known for high altitude, cut through everything playing. I think $180 was a pretty good deal.

Tim