smitty

Hi - I'm new here - the classic high school player who 10 years later has decided to take up playing as a hobby. This has fallen in my lap and I need some advice, if you would be so kind.

I've recently inherited a E.A. Couturier trumpet that looks like the bottom one in the catalog clipping at the link below (stating it plays in A, Bflat, and C). Unfortunately I won't have pictures of it for a couple of weeks, but it is all there - lots of tarnish, but no rust and will polish up nicely, I think.

Is this horn the kind I should have a local guy do work on, or is it something I should send off to some of the people I've seen recommended in the other threads? Thanks for all of your help!

http://www.rugs-n-relics.com/Brass/t...r-Trumpet.html

ALLCHOPS

That is gorgeous...

ecarroll

Smitty,

What a cool looking trumpet -- shades of what we're seeing from the most recent designs (sans the change to A, naturally)

I have an old Holton "Couturier Model" cornet in perfect condition languishing on a peg in my trumpet room. By the way, there was a good article some years back in the ITG Journal about this amazing man. Perhaps somebody can provide a link (assuming it wasn't only in paper)?

Good luck,
EC