john1

hello

I dont know if this is in the right forum to ask but...

i would like to find out about a trumpet i have, at least i think it's a trumpet, i don't play myself.

i can find any manufacturers name on it, but i can find what looks like a logo which has the letters "KT" in a circle. It also has the numbers 2202 engraved on the middle button thing (sorry i dont know the proper names). It also looks like it might be silver plated and is at least 20+ years old.

I've done a google but cant find anything. Is KT a known manufacturer of trumpets? Can anybody shead any light on this for me

Thanks very much

tpter1

Could you post a picture? It would be easier if we could see it.

ps.- Welcome! I hope we can help!

scream machine

Does it have 3 buttens? How about a round cone shaped thing on the end? Did it come with a metal looking thing? Please post pictures, do we can tell.

john1

thanks for the replies, i appreciate it

will these pictures do?



and here is the logo, which is situated near the horn shaped end

tpter1

Looks like a student line cornet to me. I've never seen the KT make, though.

Cornets are a cousin to the trumpet. Cornets are shaped a bit differently and have a richer, more mellow sound than a trumpet, which is a bit more brilliant.

Looks from the picture like a lacquered brass finish, rather than silver.

There are basically three levels of instruments: student, designed for beginners, usually fairly sturdy because they are generally used by younger kids and so take a good bit of abuse. Then are intermediate, which are a bit more costly, sometimes have some professional features (thumb hook on first valve slide, for example) and are used by a good amount of middle school and younger high school kids. Professional models are built to be played and to respond well with great precision. Not capable of handling theabuse or lack of care that a student or even intermediate horn would be subjected to.

The clue to me that this is a student model is the removable ring on the 3rd valve slide, the way the instrument is wrapped and (mainly) the fact that it seems to be not a major manufacturer.

Eclipsehornplayer

I'm with Glenn on this one...

I'd be inclined to agree that this is a student model Cornet from a manufacture that in my opinon is most likely overseas.

I've never heard of "KT" anything.

Wish I could be of more help I'd start looking up manufactures in India or someplace like that I guess.

john1

thanks for the help... so it's a cornet not a trumpet!

my pictures make the instrument look yellow/brass like it was just the light i took them in. To look at them in real life it is silver in colour, some of the laquer has worn away at the base to reveal brass.

It also has a silver thing with some cork on it, that you stick in the fat end to vary or mute the sound (sorry about my crude discription!). dont know if that helps identify it

The trumpet belonged to an old man who had played in jazz bands professionally from a young age, for him to have a student cornet seems strange, maybe it was one he bought at an early age and kept hold of.

Shame the KT logo is unknown, maybe it's somebodys initials.

would more close up pictures help at all?

Thanks again