Why not another thread about bigger horns ?

[Kehaulani]

@richard-iii said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:
And one of the reasons there isn't more interest in this thread is that most people aren't interested in things other than trumpets on these sites.

Funny thing to find on a trumpet forum.

[Richard III]

@kehaulani said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

@richard-iii said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:
And one of the reasons there isn't more interest in this thread is that most people aren't interested in things other than trumpets on these sites.

Funny thing to find on a trumpet forum.

Good point. So why even have a cornet and flugelhorn category?

Of course if there were a Cornet Boards, I wouldn't even be here.

[Shifty]

@richard-iii said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

Of course if there were a Cornet Boards, I wouldn't even be here.

Are you a facebook user?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1514385745525221/about

[Richard III]

@shifty said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

@richard-iii said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

Of course if there were a Cornet Boards, I wouldn't even be here.

Are you a facebook user?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1514385745525221/about

Thanks. Already a member. Just a little light in the wilderness for cornet lovers.

[Dale Proctor]

To me, cornets, trumpets, and flugelhorns of multiple keys are all in the same subset of brass instruments that are played with similar diameter mouthpieces. Tubas, trombones, baritones, tenor horns, French horns, etc, aren’t.

[J. Jericho]

@dale-proctor And all are played using the same principles. And if you have the chops, you can play them all.

[Bb Brass]

@J-Jericho Supporting the economy.

[barliman2001]

Strange instruments seem to find me... my first trombone was inherited from a friend who departed this life some twenty years ago. Fifteen years later, his daughter called me and was rather embarrassed... they had only now for th first time since his demise, opened up her father's music room and inspected the contents... and his #1 trombone, a 609 B&H Sovereign, bore a hand-written label that it was to go to me... this horn...

First thing I did was to visit my friend's grave and play Amazing Grace... and then happened onto a newly-formed big band with lots of trumpets and no trombones...
A couple of years later I was in a Vienna antiques store looking for a comfy seat with ears when I noticed a trombone hanging from the ceiling. Asked the seller "how much" and got a gruff answer, "two hundred". Replied, "here's a hundred - ok?" - "ok". It's a 1940s Willi Garreis tenor with valve, originally built of a member of the Munich Philharmonic, with a "long water key" feature... quite nice, all original and still in quite good shape. Came with a 12C generic trumpet mouthpiece...

And a couple of years back, found a Besson International baritone horn on e-bay for a whopping € 65..., got it, played it in a couple of brass band gigs
and then thought something might be wrong with the horn... brought it to Ivan Hunter who diagnosed that the horn had at some time suffered a catastrophic accident, been dismantled and somehow reassembled wrong way round... too costly to repair back to original condition, so he got it to convert into art...
and then, on e-bay again, found a Weltklang euphonium "for collection". Went to England for it (had some other things to do there anyway) and heard a remarkable story... the euph was owned by a long-time brass bander who had been given an ultimatum by his wife to either lose the horn or lose the wife. Chose wrong, the poor fellow... and his wife insisted that she should get the use of any money he would make out of the sale, so he gave it away for free...