J. Landress Brass

I want to extend to all Trumpet Master friends a special discount every month on repairs. This months special is:

Cleaning & Valve Alignment:
Silver: $225 (includes hand polish)
Lacquer or raw $190

Normally I charge $130 for a silver cleaning and $150 for the valve alignment.

Turn around time if brought in is same day.

I will also give a discount on other custom work in parts if you mention Trumpet Master.


Josh

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Hand-made mouthpipes
Mouthpiece alterations
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crowmadic

Thanks Josh, this will come in handy, and I'm sure we'll all appreciate it..............tom/crow

Stile442

Can I ship my horns to you?

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J. Landress Brass

Yes, people ship instruments to me all the time from all over the world. Please give me a call or email before shipping to discuss you and your horn's needs.

Josh

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J. Landress Brass
Wooden Sleeve Sound Enhancement System
Hand-made Trumpets & Trombones
Hand-made mouthpipes
Mouthpiece alterations
Expert Brass repair and restorations
www.myspace.com/jlandress
516-521-7101

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ROGERIO

Josh,

I understand what Reeves does to align valves. Can you tell us what steps you take? How indepth is your process?

Also, I keep my horns very clean. Do you have a special deal for us TM'ers on just the valve alignment? 4 valve vs. 3 valve price?

Thanks,

Rogerio

J. Landress Brass

My valve alignments are a little different than the others. For one I am stamping my own felts using a synthetic/ neoprene/ woven fabric felt. I am using several layers of felt of different thickness and hardness for each horn. This way the valve is not clunky or squishy. I am also doing a little adjustment on the actual valve ports themselves. It is one thing to align a valve vertically (up and down stroke) and not deal with the side to side rotation of the piston as it moves. For this I cut from the ports that are undercut to fit each port. In some more severe cases, I will unsolder the spring barrel from the piston and reseat it for proper rotational alignment. I also do not use any felt in the actual top cap, but rather the finger button. I have found that this greatly helps with the response of the horn.

For those of you who may want to send horns for just an alignment the turn around time is 1 day from receiving to shipping back to you.

Prices are generally the following, but I will give all TM members a discount on all work:

Trumpet: Bb, C, D, E/Eb, 3 valve pic $150
Piccolo: 4 valve $170
Flugel: $165

In some cases of vintage horns may have additional cost due to stem replacement.


As always if any of you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate.


Hope this helps.



Josh



By the way any horn can be aligned. I did a friends horn today that was rescued from an instrument graveyard a few years back that had 3 different pistons from 3 different horns all of which were different lengths and it came out perfect!!

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J. Landress Brass
Wooden Sleeve Sound Enhancement System
Hand-made Trumpets & Trombones
Hand-made mouthpipes
Mouthpiece alterations
Expert Brass repair and restorations
www.myspace.com/jlandress
516-521-7101

stchasking

J.

Can you change the orientation of the valve cluster?
I would want the second valve tilted to the left and
the third valve tilted to the right.
The first valve can stay vertical to the horn.

We have discussed on this board one manufacturer that does this or did in the past. They called it a radial horn.

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gzent

Josh,

Please elaborate - what tests have you performed that would lead you to believe this?

Thanks,

Greg

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Fudleysmith

A friend's Callachio has that same felt arrangement, with the felt under the finger button. The felt compresses against a small nipple in the center of the valve cap.

The problem is that he now runs through felts more often because all of the compression is placed on a much smaller surface area than the outer circumference of the finger button. As an engineer, I'm not sold on the "under finger button" felt idea.

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