wombat

As I am somewhat new to this,I can tell you that I have played trumpet and cornet since 1962.My first cornet was a Conn Dir-
ector;my first trumpet was a Czech made "Concertone" peasho-
oter.Other horns I've owned were a Conn Cornet similar to the
model Bix Beiderbecke played save the fact that his was a Bb to
A and mine was a Bb to C.I haven't had that horn in about fifte-
en years.Other horns were a Rudy Muck Academy,an Olds Reco-
rding trumpet as well as an Ambassador cornet.A Couesnon Bb
not a Monopole or Conservatoire model.
My current horns are two Chinese Bach copies:one,a copy of
a 180 series(brand name:Selman)and the other,a Venus,that loo-
ks like a Bach TR300 I once owned.That horn was junked by me
when I discovered red rot in the bell.I couldn't repair it.I also ow-
n a Conn 48B Connqueror with the rimless "vocabell".That one co-
st me $45 at a pawn shop in Lampasas,Texas.It's in fair shape.It
also has the "Crysteel" valves and there doesn't seem to be that
much wear on them considering that the horn was made in 1940.
I do have a question to throw out to the other members:when
a trumpet has valves that have little plating left,can one substitu-
te chrome for nickel?Some fifteen years ago,I was working as a
Security Guard in Reedsport,Oregon(on the south central Oregon
coast)and one morning when I started my first round,someone had
drug the remainder of a 1956 4 door Rambler Super.The body was
cut up long ago and the running gear long since gone.The grille was
perfect.This car had to have been in the brush for well over thirty
years.If chrome could stand all those years of heavy rains,why wou-
ldn't work for plating valves?It's just food for thought.
As for a "dream trumpet",I've had a fondness for Conn and I wo-
uld to see one with the crysteel valves,as open,free blowing as I
could get with a coprion leadpipe and coprion bell.Bell size around
a No.1-1/2 bell.I once played an old Reynolds cornet that had a
very vibrant sound and I loved it.Couesnon made a both a Lafayette
peashooter trumpet(a cheap horn)I once played some thirty five y-
ears ago and it had a brilliant,vibrant sound.It sold for $75 in a music store in Coos Bay,Oregon.What can I replace my Bach 7C with?Jim Donaldson,at his Trumpet Gearhead site,recommends a Sc-hilke 14A4.I was toying with ordering a Rudy Muck 17 as I had one
in this Olds Recording.
Favourite trumpeters and cornetists:Bunny Berigan,Satchmo,B-
illy Butterfield,Billy Regis with Prez Prado(Regis was the trumpet sol-
oist heard on the RCA recording.My parents had that RCA recording in 1955 and it was said that I,all of about three or four,wore the r-
ecord it.I found my own copy years later.I guess that is why I pre-
ferred "fat toned" players like Berigan,Butterfield,the early Satch from 1928-33,Diz,Roy Eldredge,Fats Navarro,Freddie Webster and
Doc Severinsen and Charlie Spivak.A new trumpet would be nice I
can use my old 48B as a conversation piece.

Vulgano Brother

Welcome to TM, Wombat! If I remember correctly, early Bach's had chromed valves. And the best replacement for a 7C is, uhh, a 7C.

Have fun!

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Solar Bell

Welcome Wombat!

I like your choice in players! (Berigan & Butterfield)

Enjoy the ride!


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wombat

Thanks for the input.I was serio-
sly considering putting away my ho-
rns after I was operated on for triple
bypass and mitral valve replacement
but my cardiologist told me it would
be good therapy.I more or less said
this in jest and when I was getting
respitory therapy,the nurse was te-
lling me how to breathe and I told
her of my being a trumpeter and that
what they were saying sounded alot
the way Louis Maggio told his stude-
nts to breathe.I met this studio tru-
mpeter named Carlton MacBeth who
published the Maggio System of Bra-
ss back in '68 and he drove from L.
A. to do a brass clinic at the college
I attended back in early '71.It work-
ed for me.I mentioned I also played
trombone and I told me to quit.His
remark was one I could argue that it
was a matter of dispute.I used to
have a flexible lip when I was in my
teens then and I also played saxop-
hone and clarinet but played tuba in
the concert,marching,and tuba in the high school band(North Bend,OR)
and trumpet in the newly organised
stage band.This was in 1970.I was
the jazz soloist and co-lead trumpet
In closing,another trumpeter I dug was Erskine Hawkins.I wore out an
already worn out Victor 78 of "Tippin
In backed with "Remember".It dated
from 1945.That was where I got the
idea of getting a Rudy Muck 17.I br-
oke that record and it was nearly 40
years ago before I found another c-
opy of it.The trumpet solo by Hawki-
ns wasn't as good as I remembered
it.