see this post ok?

https://trumpetboards.com/post/20869

Sorry that your options are limited. Good luck.

@Dale-Proctor said in Oiling trumpet:

@Shifty said in Oiling trumpet:

@Dr-GO
I had a co-worker who went through college on a band scholarship. He said their entire trumpet section used STP as a slide lubricant.

I can’t imagine that working unless they thinned it out with some other oil. STP is as thick and stringy as honey.

It did work well. The drop of red colored solution was thinner than my UltraPure oil.

@Dale-Proctor Thanks very much! Although my tenure with the NHMP is relatively brief, the value of the program is very clear!

@J-Jericho said in You've never heard Kuhlohorn like this:

Dimensions and sound appear quite similar to a flugelhorn, but with a more rounded rounded wrap.

Agreed. The rounded wrap component is more related to the textures delivered by a keyed instrument. Here is Claudio Roditi playing the keyed flugelhorn that I feel gives a very similar tonal delivery

@Newell-Post 🙂

@administrator It's just an alto horn in French horn shape with a trumpet shank receiver and right-handed.

Theory is a nice thing. With embouchure, I can only say - "what works, works." I've seen too many excellent players with weird to absurd embouchures...

It's beautiful, I hope you find success.

@Bb-Brass Arnold & Sons are also good clones of good Bach pieces... and they ave the additional advantage that they are readily available in Europe (whereas Blessings aren't).

@Bb-Brass
Unfortunately GeorgeB passed away in 2023.
Below is a link to his obituary. He was a very nice gentleman as well as a frequent and relevant contributor to this site. He has been missed.

https://eaglesfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/1444/George-Bellefontaine/obituary.html

If it's not a sheperds crook cornet, most brass players are not interested. Trumpet is a better trumpet. People want SC cornets that are coupled with deep mouthpieces, making a sonic experience that knocks on the door of the flugelhorn office.

PSA: If anybody is using WD-40, or any other kind of penetrating oil on their trumpet....STOP!!!

Please, clean your trumpet thoroughly with dish soap or simple green. Never, ever use these kinds of chemicals on a trumpet. There are more than enough chemicals designed to be used with brass instruments. Not only do these chemicals do weird things to the brass and valves, but they can seriously impact your health.

That is so cool

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...
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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...
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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 P1010685.bJPG.jpg
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...