vintage pocket trumpet

PhatmonB6 · 03-03-2006, 12:52 AM

What do you guys think....

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Antique-Fre...QQcmdZViewItem

Schwab · 03-03-2006, 01:44 AM

Thats the real deal, all the stamps are correct. Buy it.

Ljazztrm · 03-04-2006, 11:04 AM

Yeah, but how does it sound? The reason I ask is because it looks like the bell is pretty small. Has anyone ever played one of these with the small bells? What about those 'parlor horns'?

I'm still looking for a good old pocket CORNET.

Tootsall · 03-04-2006, 11:13 AM

A pocket trumpet is a compromise at best. The best of the best aren't as good as most of the rest. This one looks more like a collector's item than a player.

krauseheim · 03-05-2006, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tootsall

A pocket trumpet is a compromise at best. The best of the best aren't as good as most of the rest. This one looks more like a collector's item than a player.

Anyone familiar with an old pocket trumpet with an eagle insignia plate on the bell with "e pluribus unum"? A couple have sold recently on eBay. Any idea who made it? I'm guessing 100 years old on these things.

Here's a couple of links...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1

Thanks!

PhatmonB6 · 03-06-2006, 04:36 PM

What did Don Cherry use???

krauseheim · 03-06-2006, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PhatmonB6

What did Don Cherry use???

A hockey stick. (Yeah... wrong Don Cherry...

)

nieuwguyski · 03-07-2006, 03:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PhatmonB6

What did Don Cherry use???

Early on, a nasty thing made in Pakistan. Later (don't know exactly when), he was given a presentation horn made by Besson, the pocket trumpet he played to the end of his life. Besson never sold the type of pocket trumpet he played. There are different stories -- that the trumpet was custom-made for a play, or that Besson made a handful for executives -- but they were never sold to the public.

Cornet1 · 03-07-2006, 04:06 AM

"......... There are different stories -- that the trumpet was custom-made for a play, or that Besson made a handful for executives -- but they were never sold to the public...."

They were known in brass bands in the UK as 'bandmasters samples'......

When I was a small boy, just into my first real brass band, I was fascinated by the two such instruments in the bands store room. they were both by Besson at '198 Euston Rd', one in silver plate the other in bare brass,...they were presented to past bandmasters on the placing of orders for complete sets of instruments, one of these being in 1910.

Robert Rowe · 04-13-2006, 08:54 AM

How ever did they acquire the appellation, "pocket horns" ?

Unless you are (were) Captain Kangaroo, they just won't fit into pockets (at least, the ones of which I am aware).

***on a similar note: how ever did they come up with the term, "pocket battleships" (as in the German Graf Spee) ... (sp?) ??

Robt Rowe

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Robert Rowe Piano User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 498	How ever did they acquire the appellation, "pocket horns" ? Unless you are (were) Captain Kangaroo, they just won't fit into pockets (at least, the ones of which I am aware). **on a similar note: how ever did they come up with the term, "pocket battleships" (as in the German Graf Spee*) ... (sp?) ?? Robt Rowe __________________ " ... Ya cain't polish a turd ...!" (old Southern expression) ~~ Love animals ... don't eat them. ~~

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Ljazztrm Pianissimo User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: NY, NY Posts: 60	Yeah, but how does it sound? The reason I ask is because it looks like the bell is pretty small. Has anyone ever played one of these with the small bells? What about those 'parlor horns'? I'm still looking for a good old pocket CORNET.

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Tootsall Fortissimo User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Yee HAW! Posts: 4,641	A pocket trumpet is a compromise at best. The best of the best aren't as good as most of the rest. This one looks more like a collector's item than a player.

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Cornet1 Pianissimo User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Essex, England Posts: 133	"......... There are different stories -- that the trumpet was custom-made for a play, or that Besson made a handful for executives -- but they were never sold to the public...." They were known in brass bands in the UK as 'bandmasters samples'...... When I was a small boy, just into my first real brass band, I was fascinated by the two such instruments in the bands store room. they were both by Besson at '198 Euston Rd', one in silver plate the other in bare brass,...they were presented to past bandmasters on the placing of orders for complete sets of instruments, one of these being in 1910.

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