My collection...

[barliman2001]

As I am enjoying a leisure moment, I have begun a list of every instrument I ever owned... not in chronological order. And I've decided that you out there, my trumpet friends, should be allowed to share this info.
Please do not see this as boasting, but as plain information.
I am including the fate of each instrument whenever it has decided to move on.

Bb trumpets:
Comet ***
UMI King Silver Flair Dizzy Bell (sold)
Jupiter STR-1010, with one straight and one Dizzy Bell, and an adapted Schilke BERYLLIUM bell (sold)
Jupiter 840 (sold)
Dowids Jazzline (sold)
Stomvi Elite Bb (sold)
Ganter G5 (exchanged for G7)
Ganter G7 custom (sold)
Olds Ambassador (given to a friend as present)
Olds Special (returned to original seller as he after the deal could not bear to part with it)
Olds Studio (for sale at Votruba's in Vienna)
Olds Recording
Courtois Balanced
Buescher Aristocrat 265
Conn International (Amati stencil)
Selmer K-Modified (stolen in burglary in Ireland)
UMI Benge #7 (for sale at Votruba's in Vienna)
Buescher #9
Buescher #11 with quick change to A (stolen in burglary in Ireland)

Pocket Bb trumpets:
Jupiter, small bell (sold)
Stomvi Forte (sold)
Arnold & Sons (Jupiter clone)

C trumpets:
Bach Strad 239, with additional slides in Bb and Ab (stolen in Munich)
Bach Strad rotary C (stolen in burglary in Ireland)
Stomvi Elite (sold)
Couesnon Bb/C (for sale at Votruba's in Vienna)
Gaudet C

D trumpets:
DEG Signature (re-sold within two weeks)
Ganter G3 (sold)
Stomvi Elite (sold)
Courtois

Eb trumpets:
Stomvi (sold)

F trumpet:
Bach Strad (sold)

G picc:
Scherzer (sold)
1966 Selmer

Bb/A picc:
1967 Selmer (sold)
1979 Selmer (sold)
Besson Kanstul 920 (sold, very much regretted)
Stomvi Elite (sold)
Votruba Professional (stolen in Vienna, found and destroyed by police on suspicion of being a bomb)
ACB Doubler

Bb cornets:
Weltklang, with custom made Ab slides (sold)
Ganter Custom (sold)
Besson Imperial (in need of restoration)
Stomvi Elite (sold)
Ganter rotary cornet (returned to H. Ganter for private collection)
Besson International (2x)
Buescher Aristocrat 264
Jupiter student cornet (sold)
Elkhart by Buescher (for sale at Votruba's in Vienna)
Blessing Artist (present to my Scottish godchild)
Unnamed 1880s HP cornet, with personal engraving

Eb cornets:
Besson Imperial (in need of restoration)
B&H Sovereign Round Stamp bell-tuned Soprano (2x, one stolen in burglary in Ireland, the other sold)
Ganter Custom

Flugelhorns:
Ganter G15 (sold)
Votruba Profi (sold)
Courtois 154R
Thomann "Black Jazz" (sold within a week)
Clemens August Glier Kuhlohorn (almost sold...)

I think that's it... enjoy.

[Dr GO]

My collection is unchanged, non sold, I still own them. My history will be chronological and the reason for their purchase:

Olds Ambassador - Bought by my parents when I decided to join my public school band program
Olds Recording (Fullerton Manufacture) - Bought by my parents as I continued public school experience into high school

Getzen 4 valve Eterna Flugelhorn - Self Purchased for a college rock band inspired by Rick Braun

Many years then pass until I become a TrumpetMasters member and was intrigued by attending a Trumpet Hang with another TM member at which time I played and fell in love with these horns:

Martin Committee - Now my main small group horn
Kenstul 4 valve 1526 - Now my main flugelhorn for both small group and big band

Then by concern of my horns being confiscated by security I purchased it assuming I could afford loosing it:

Allora Pocket Trumpet - Was confiscated 3x by Saudi Airport security, and got it returned each time after pleading with Saudi security supervisors.

Then my impulse buying spree "got to have it" due to discussions by TM Members identified in convincing me I had to have this horn:
Olds Super Recording - ANA Mandez and was my main big band horn until I experienced the Getzen Power Bore
Getzen Power Bore - Cyber_Shake and became my main big band horn until my Harrelson arrived 4 years after placing that order

Olds Recording (LA Manufacture) - Sounds7 to help support a cause requiring him to sell off instruments
Harrelson Summit - Sounds7 and Now my main big band horn

[Kehaulani]

Old Austrian cornet from my grandfather (brand unknown). Jr. High.
Used student-level cornet (again, name unknown). Jr. High.
Selmer K Modified. H.S.
Conn Connstellation, H.S. and two years of college.
Getzen Severinsen, last two years of college +Professionally.
Martin Committee
Schilke B-7
Getzen Eterna Classic
Bach Commercial 190-1 (present).

Adams F-1 Flugelhorn (present)
Conn 80 - A Coret (present)
Carol Brass Pocket Trumpet

[Horn Safari, I owned for short periods of time: Adams A-1, Schilke B-1, Benge 3X, Bach 190-37]

[For fun: E. German Alto Horn, Czech Natural Horn, Hans Hoyer French Horn]

At the Master level, I minored on Woodwinds at UNT and spent almost twenty years as a professional woodwind player. That list is way too large, LOL.

[Dale Proctor]

Current:

Bach Stradivarius Bb trumpet, ML 43
Bach Stradivarius C trumpet, ML 239
Bach Stradivarius Bb cornet, L 184G
F. Besson (London) A/Bb/C cornet
Conn 6B Victor Bb trumpet
Conn 9A Victor Bb cornet
Kanstul Bb field trumpet
Henry Lehnert SARV Bb cornet
Olds Ambassador D/Eb trumpet
Olds L12 Bb flugelhorn
U.S. Regulation G field trumpet
Unknown maker British duty bugle (copy)

Past (all Bb unless noted):

A. Hilleron Paris A/Bb cornet
Bach Mt. Vernon Stradivarius trumpet, ML 43
Besson Stratford cornet
Besson & Co. Class B cornet
Besson (Kanstul) A/Bb piccolo trumpet
Conn 6B Victor trumpet
Conn 22B New York Symphony A/Bb trumpet (2)
Conn 22B Victor trumpet
Conn 15B Director trumpet
Conn 80A Victor cornet
Conn 76A Connquest cornet (2)
Conn 5A Victor cornet (3)
Conn 17A Director cornet
Conn 15A Director cornet
Crusader (Conn stencil) peashooter trumpet
Holton C201 Laureate cornet
Holton Super Collegiate trumpet
J.W. Pepper A/Bb cornet
King Cleveland cornet
Olds Ambassador cornet
Olds Ambassador trumpet (2)
Reynolds Medalist cornet
Yamaha 2330 cornet

That’s an even 40. If I think of any more, I’ll add them to the list…lol

[J. Jericho]

In approximate chronological order, with overlaps:

Chrome-plated POS TSO - "I'm playing the trumpet!" traded in on:
Selmer Signet Special cornet - Small-bore intermediate-level instrument traded in on:
Bach Stradivarius Model 37 - Magic early Elkhart I foolishly sold
Rexcraft bugle - Just for fun; used a lot of Brasso on it; donated it
Benge Claude Gordon - Fabulous trumpet that was stolen from me and never recovered
Shofar - Received as gift; small end far from optimal, but I play it anyway
Olds Opera - Sold it because I couldn't match a mouthpiece to it (today would be different)
Olds Ambassador trumpet - Good condition, a mediocre player; sold it
Olds Ambassador trumpet - Average condition, a poor player, I disassembled it for unfinished Frankenhorn project
Bach Stradivarius Model 72* - A demanding horn that delivered results, eventually sold - no regrets
Olds L-12 flugelhorn - Decent horn sold when replaced by:
Yamaha YFH-731 flugelhorn - Great sound, best intonation of any horn I've ever played
Rotary valve flugelhorn - I don't recall the German manufacturer; sold it because I couldn't match a mouthpiece to it (today would be different)
Gemeinhart flute - Given to me; never played one before; easy to play; eventually sold it
King Cleveland 602 cornet - Travel horn; eventually sold it
Parrot field trumpet - Chinese, excellent pitch; sold it
Getzen M2003 Bb/G field trumpet - Used it in BAA; sold it
King Opus 7 cornet - Wonderful sound, worst intonation ever, sold it
Selmer Bundy trombone - Surprisingly good horn replaced by:
Olds Studio trombone - Decent horn prompted by my Studio trumpet (we're a bit out of sequence here)
Olds Recording trumpet - Very nice horn, valve ergonomics not for me; sold it
Olds Super trumpet - Generic sound, marginal intonation; sold it
Marceau trombone - Art Deco period TSO (Trombone Shaped Object); sold it
Dillon pocket trumpet - Good for travel
Olds Studio trumpet - Best trumpet ever (for me)
Olds Special trumpet - Underrated horn
York Perfec-Tone cornet - Aptly named, unlikely to be replaced

[adc]

@barliman2001
I restarted replaying around d 5 years ago. I bought lots of cheaper horns and gave around 20 away to underprivileged or talented kids

Some I remember:

Strad Trumpet (sold)
Eterna Trumpet(sold)
Cornets:
Capri (2)
Committees (2)
Conn Concert Grand
New Proportion

Current (cornets) in my collection:

1900 Boosey & Fuchs
1910 King
1906 Conn Conquest
1908 Wonderphone
1910 Perfected Wonder
1911 Perfected wonder
1929 (York Improved Perfect) My steady Player
Dont remember dates off top of head):
Committee
King Master (2)
1954 Concert Grand (Near Brand New-100%perfect)
1954 20A
1984 Bach Strad M 184G Other Steady Player

[barliman2001]

@adc Giving away instruments to deserving talents is a good idea. I recently donated a Besson Stratford trumpet, a King Tempo cornet and a Conn Director to a school orchestra in Bulgaria, together with a heap of mouthpieces. Since then, I am swamped with videos of the kids practising enthusiastically; and the orchestra is now much in demand by the civic authorities to give athmosphere to official functions...

Heavens, that's three instruments I forgot to list!!

[J. Jericho]

@barliman2001 said in My collection...:

As I am enjoying a leisure moment, I have begun a list of every instrument I ever owned... not in chronological order. And I've decided that you out there, my trumpet friends, should be allowed to share this info.

Selmer K-Modified (stolen in burglary in Ireland)
Buescher #11 with quick change to A (stolen in burglary in Ireland)
Bach Strad 239, with additional slides in Bb and Ab (stolen in Munich)
Bach Strad rotary C (stolen in burglary in Ireland)
Votruba Professional (stolen in Vienna, found and destroyed by police on suspicion of being a bomb)
B&H Sovereign Round Stamp bell-tuned Soprano (2x, one stolen in burglary in Ireland, the other sold)

Your list of stolen instruments is shocking. That's a lot of pain to have to experience.

[barliman2001]

@j-jericho There were three separate incidents. One, the Bach Strad C, was borrowed by a friend who needed it for a musical performance in Munich's Gärtnerplatztheater - his own C was a Ganter rotary, and you can't bring rotaries for Oklahoma. He had the Strad in the canteen, went to where clarinet player get their best notes from, and when he returned, the case wasn't there. Theatre insurance paid up and thus financed the Strad rotary which with most of the other instrument was stolen in one haul when our house in Ireland was burgled and stripped of almost all the contents. The miscreants even broke open the oil tank and stole our heating oil!
And the Votruba Profi was loaded into a van with all the other band instruments for a gig on a mountain top in Croatia, but the van never arrived there. Seems the original driver of the local van and a few cronies of his had pre-planned the coup. At any rate, we arrived at that mountain resort by cable car und were unable to play because we did not have a single instrument...

[Curlydoc]

@barliman2001 The trumpet bomb must be a good story.

[barliman2001]

@curlydoc I'll hunt out the newspaper...