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wombat · 06-06-2008, 01:17 AM

As I am somewhat new to this,I can tell you that I have played trumpet and cornet since 1962.My first cornet was a Conn Dir-
ector;my first trumpet was a Czech made "Concertone" peasho-
oter.Other horns I've owned were a Conn Cornet similar to the
model Bix Beiderbecke played save the fact that his was a Bb to
A and mine was a Bb to C.I haven't had that horn in about fifte-
en years.Other horns were a Rudy Muck Academy,an Olds Reco-
rding trumpet as well as an Ambassador cornet.A Couesnon Bb
not a Monopole or Conservatoire model.
My current horns are two Chinese Bach copies:one,a copy of
a 180 series(brand name:Selman)and the other,a Venus,that loo-
ks like a Bach TR300 I once owned.That horn was junked by me
when I discovered red rot in the bell.I couldn't repair it.I also ow-
n a Conn 48B Connqueror with the rimless "vocabell".That one co-
st me $45 at a pawn shop in Lampasas,Texas.It's in fair shape.It
also has the "Crysteel" valves and there doesn't seem to be that
much wear on them considering that the horn was made in 1940.
I do have a question to throw out to the other members:when
a trumpet has valves that have little plating left,can one substitu-
te chrome for nickel?Some fifteen years ago,I was working as a
Security Guard in Reedsport,Oregon(on the south central Oregon
coast)and one morning when I started my first round,someone had
drug the remainder of a 1956 4 door Rambler Super.The body was
cut up long ago and the running gear long since gone.The grille was
perfect.This car had to have been in the brush for well over thirty
years.If chrome could stand all those years of heavy rains,why wou-
ldn't work for plating valves?It's just food for thought.
As for a "dream trumpet",I've had a fondness for Conn and I wo-
uld to see one with the crysteel valves,as open,free blowing as I
could get with a coprion leadpipe and coprion bell.Bell size around
a No.1-1/2 bell.I once played an old Reynolds cornet that had a
very vibrant sound and I loved it.Couesnon made a both a Lafayette
peashooter trumpet(a cheap horn)I once played some thirty five y-
ears ago and it had a brilliant,vibrant sound.It sold for $75 in a music store in Coos Bay,Oregon.What can I replace my Bach 7C with?Jim Donaldson,at his Trumpet Gearhead site,recommends a Sc-hilke 14A4.I was toying with ordering a Rudy Muck 17 as I had one
in this Olds Recording.
Favourite trumpeters and cornetists:Bunny Berigan,Satchmo,B-
illy Butterfield,Billy Regis with Prez Prado(Regis was the trumpet sol-
oist heard on the RCA recording.My parents had that RCA recording in 1955 and it was said that I,all of about three or four,wore the r-
ecord it.I found my own copy years later.I guess that is why I pre-
ferred "fat toned" players like Berigan,Butterfield,the early Satch from 1928-33,Diz,Roy Eldredge,Fats Navarro,Freddie Webster and
Doc Severinsen and Charlie Spivak.A new trumpet would be nice I
can use my old 48B as a conversation piece.

06-06-2008, 01:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
wombat New Friend Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2	Introduction As I am somewhat new to this,I can tell you that I have played trumpet and cornet since 1962.My first cornet was a Conn Dir- ector;my first trumpet was a Czech made "Concertone" peasho- oter.Other horns I've owned were a Conn Cornet similar to the model Bix Beiderbecke played save the fact that his was a Bb to A and mine was a Bb to C.I haven't had that horn in about fifte- en years.Other horns were a Rudy Muck Academy,an Olds Reco- rding trumpet as well as an Ambassador cornet.A Couesnon Bb not a Monopole or Conservatoire model. My current horns are two Chinese Bach copies:one,a copy of a 180 series(brand name:Selman)and the other,a Venus,that loo- ks like a Bach TR300 I once owned.That horn was junked by me when I discovered red rot in the bell.I couldn't repair it.I also ow- n a Conn 48B Connqueror with the rimless "vocabell".That one co- st me $45 at a pawn shop in Lampasas,Texas.It's in fair shape.It also has the "Crysteel" valves and there doesn't seem to be that much wear on them considering that the horn was made in 1940. I do have a question to throw out to the other members:when a trumpet has valves that have little plating left,can one substitu- te chrome for nickel?Some fifteen years ago,I was working as a Security Guard in Reedsport,Oregon(on the south central Oregon coast)and one morning when I started my first round,someone had drug the remainder of a 1956 4 door Rambler Super.The body was cut up long ago and the running gear long since gone.The grille was perfect.This car had to have been in the brush for well over thirty years.If chrome could stand all those years of heavy rains,why wou- ldn't work for plating valves?It's just food for thought. As for a "dream trumpet",I've had a fondness for Conn and I wo- uld to see one with the crysteel valves,as open,free blowing as I could get with a coprion leadpipe and coprion bell.Bell size around a No.1-1/2 bell.I once played an old Reynolds cornet that had a very vibrant sound and I loved it.Couesnon made a both a Lafayette peashooter trumpet(a cheap horn)I once played some thirty five y- ears ago and it had a brilliant,vibrant sound.It sold for $75 in a music store in Coos Bay,Oregon.What can I replace my Bach 7C with?Jim Donaldson,at his Trumpet Gearhead site,recommends a Sc-hilke 14A4.I was toying with ordering a Rudy Muck 17 as I had one in this Olds Recording. Favourite trumpeters and cornetists:Bunny Berigan,Satchmo,B- illy Butterfield,Billy Regis with Prez Prado(Regis was the trumpet sol- oist heard on the RCA recording.My parents had that RCA recording in 1955 and it was said that I,all of about three or four,wore the r- ecord it.I found my own copy years later.I guess that is why I pre- ferred "fat toned" players like Berigan,Butterfield,the early Satch from 1928-33,Diz,Roy Eldredge,Fats Navarro,Freddie Webster and Doc Severinsen and Charlie Spivak.A new trumpet would be nice I can use my old 48B as a conversation piece.