Reasons to collect trumpets?

@OldSchoolEuph
Now that's some serious heavy metal.

Thanks for posting that. I didn't know such an event ever existed. That Taps solo on that vintage cornet is the best I ever remember hearing. Made me think of From Here to Eternity.

OldSchoolEuph

@Niner said in Reasons to collect trumpets?:

Thanks for posting that. I didn't know such an event ever existed. That Tapps solo on that vintage cornet is the best I ever remember hearing. Made me think of From Here to Eternity.

Jeff Stockham plays the Taps solo in both videos.

At Conn's grave site in the Elkhart video, the Conn cornet used has been in Jeff's family for generations. Also in the Elkhart video, the unusual Conn cornet Jeff plays at the Conn mansion was one that the present owners were lucky enough to re-unite with the house. It had belonged to Conn and was left behind in the divorce, then preserved by a neighbor family for decades.

Bob Pixley

I know Jeff and have played at a few venues he was also performing at. He is a tremendous player on historic instruments, as well as a great jazz player. He knows me by my real name, though, not as Bob Pixley...lol