trumpetnick

Guys,

I am just writing to say that I decided to go for the Spada piccolo after considering many horns. It is yellow brass, gold plated, with triggers for 1st and 3st piston slides. As the production just started and it is going to last 10-12 days to which I have to add about 7-10 days till it gets to Bulgaria, I cannot put any pictures of actual horn yet, but in the meantime you can admire the standard model in raw brass bell, with trigger on the 3rd slide piston.

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I have not decided yet what mouthpiece to use with, but Vincenz agreed very politely to send me few mouthpieces to test at home, after what I am going to sent back the ones I don't want. The horn is expensive, but very nice, and Vincenz and Rene are doing an excellent job. As far as I know they have built the one I tested couple of years ago for the principal trumpet of the Zurich Opera Orchestra and it was very impressive...so it will be mine You should be jealous by now

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Spada Bach C 256, leadpipe 2LQ/DWMM1.5C
1956 Olds Ambassador Cornet
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camelbrass

Looks great Nick.

Those Spada Bach conversions are very nice. Is the picc a conversion or built from the ground up? Let us know how it plays anyway.


Regards,


Trevor

trumpetnick

The pic is not a conversion as far as I know. Simply and plainly a Spada pic. Not Schilke-Spada, or Selmer-Spada or whatever. The one I tested is excellent and has quite big and pleasant sound as opposed to thin and squeaky. I found that it is somewhat similar to F besson, but better (at least that is my personal opinion

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Spada Bach B flat 72, leadpipe 2L/DWMM1.5C
Spada Bach C 256, leadpipe 2LQ/DWMM1.5C
1956 Olds Ambassador Cornet
Spada Custom Piccolo

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Luis M. Araya

How mcu are these Spada Custom Piccolos?

Luis.

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Luis M. Araya

How Much.....sorry about that

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S-Money

Haha, tell us the truth... how many horns did you REALLY consider before deciding on your dream brand?! :P

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Richard Oliver

Beautiful horn Nick!! Congrats big time!! I'll look forward to your review.

Happy Day,

Richard Oliver

trumpetnick

This one will cost me 4900Frs which is roughly about 3000Euros.

Before deciding for the Spada I tried quite a few piccs...Kanstul, Stomvi, Selmer, Scherzer, Schilke. I have also very unclear memory of playing a friend's Yammie, but would not be able to give a review. I wish I could test the Eclipse one too before deciding for Spada, but as it is still in experimental stage it was obviously impossible.

When deciding for Spada I was seriously considering Scherzer and F. Besson as possible choices. Let me give you the reasons of choice. The Scherzer is a wonderful horn, with very free blowing feel, very sweet tone and excellent intonation, but I found quite difficult the extreme high range, and on this stage I needed something more versitile. Furthermore, it is not the ideal horn for those orchestral picc solo like petrushka or the Pictures...Another advantage I saw is that the with a piston valve I can turn pages while playing if needed to, which is almost impossible with a rotary. Another advantage that the piston gives me is the 1st piston slide trigger which seems more easy to put on a piston valve though not many piston valve picc maker offer either (I asked Felix from NYTC if they could do this on thier picc, but he refused, saying that the slide was too small for that)

So I was left with the F. Besson which could be customised to get this optional trigger on or take Spada thing. As putting the trigger was quite expensive, which makes the difference not really significant (around 700-800$) and the Spada had a rounder sound I decided for the Spada.

When I decide to buy a f/g trumpet, I think that I will go for the Scherzer piccolo, cause for a lower picc, the Scherzer sound seems perfect. Probably I will use that one mainly for baroque stuff like bach cantatas and some other C major stuf, so turning pages won't be an issue, and extreme hihg range won't be needed. But this will be when I manage to pay off the loan for the spada picc and get some more money for another expensive horn...

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Spada Bach B flat 72, leadpipe 2L/DWMM1.5C
Spada Bach C 256, leadpipe 2LQ/DWMM1.5C
1956 Olds Ambassador Cornet
Spada Custom Piccolo

If you don't know where you are going, you 'll end up someplace else

Vulgano Brother

Congratulations in advance! Does it use a cornet receiver and have a large bore like the Besson?

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swissdude

I actually own that model and the first slide is very small. You might be able to get a slide on it but nobody as far as I have seen so far offers a good option tragger on the first slide. Send a pic when you have it I am interested to see what Spada will do for you. I have mine silver with bell and goldplated. It is a beautiful instrument.