So you have a cornet with extra slides
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Say you have acquired a cornet that is built on the style of the Conn Perfect Wonder from around 1907 and a couple extra weird slides come in the case....and you don't know how to hook them up. Ergonomic wasn't a word back then and it isn't altogether obvious how to do this trick. And when you are through hooking the thing up you will have converted a perfectly good B flat horn into a A that's now days pretty useless.....however.... it's fun to know how.
Study the photos carefully. I went to some trouble to do this because I was feeling guilty reading about how too many meaningless and uninformative posts...like the ones I usually make are on this site. And... I assure you this is the actual way to do this attachment thing even though it looks ridiculous.
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Eeegad! What did you eventually come up with?
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@Kehaulani Something you didn't know about apparently.
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@Niner said in So you have a cornet with extra slides:
@Kehaulani Something you didn't know about apparently.
Absolutely right. I am not, nor ever have been, a gearhead or musical instrument historian. Thank goodness there are those who are.
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The A slides can come in handy, though... I once had to play an Easter Sunday gig in church... Mozart Organ Solo Mass (trumpet in C). What the conductor had not mentioned was that for Holy Communion, the choir and orchestra were to perform the Haec Dies by Caspar Ett, which asks for a trumpet in A... Luckily, I never go to gigs without some extra hardware "for emergencies". Usually, when using the C, this emergency hooter is a 1920s Buescher with a Bb-to-A switch valve... one turn of the screw, and Caspar Ett was performed by the trumpet asked for.
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@barliman2001 You know the valve switch was made with it's own serial number and added to a horn as an option during final production. If my ear is right, the shift forward to horizontal is the Bflat selection and straight up is the A. Images from a vintage York and sons. Lots easier than the cornet.
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@Niner You are correct as to York horns. With Buescher, the extra valve gave a different type number.
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@barliman2001 In what way? The York trumpet serial number is different from the valve serial number because the valve wasn't made in line with the trumpet and could have been put on any trumpet that it would fit. I don't understand what you are saying. What kind of different number would the Buescher use?
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@Niner For example, a Buescher trumpet would be type # 9 without the Bb/A valve, and be designated #12 with the valve. The valve did not have a separate serial number.
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@barliman2001 Thanks. I didn't know that.
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