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@fels said in Which trumpet to buy?:

@flugelgirl

I have opined before that you may or may not find your idea of the best horn -- you have to be patient and it will find you

Thirty or forty years ago I was playing a Selmer Paris and wanted something better....I went to our local music store and played several "pro' horns. I selected a Bach 37. Payed it for the next 20 to 25 years. A Schilke X3 was available at the store and that has been why horn since. I still play the Bach, but do not like its weight. I bought my Courois Flugelhorn unseen on Craigs List. There are better (cosmetically) flugels out there, but I can make the Courtois sound the way I like -- it found me.

Courtois instruments seem to have a way of finding one... my 154R flugel came my way after a trade fair in Munich, when the Courtois people had a few more cases left over than they could possibly fit in their truck. I was hanging about there and admiring the way they tried to solve the problem, and when I asked whether I could help them in any way, they just told me to "take my pick". And so I walked away with a brand-new case with - as I found out later - a brand spanking new Courtois 154R flugel in it - for free. Haven't looked at another flugel since then - it's that good. Few years later, Votruba's in Vienna told me they had taken in a Courtois Balanced in part-exchange for a new instrument. Would not sell as it was cosmetically bad, so they let me have it for € 150... it's my main big band axe now. And only recently an old friend told me he's thinning his herd and letting go another almost unplayed Courtois Balanced - he likes "heavy" horns, the harder the better - and that will be mine as soon as I pay the postage...

@rowuk said in What's the best option here?:

If the pictures really represented the horn, a buyer backing out is pretty lame. I think that it is a buyers market for a 2B and the condition (including the valves) would have to be exceptional to get much more than $300. Without knowing what other issues the horn has, I would suspect that investing will not match the returns.

If that's the case, I think I'd rather just hold onto it. It plays OK and I can always repair and sell it in the future.

Who Dey think could use more mouthpieces.

The buyer decided the bell had "too many dents" (not sure how he didn't see the bell condition in the photos!). He is now returning the horn to me.

I will sell to a TrumpetBoards member for $300 + shipping. Thank you.

Horn-u-copia has some nice details on Keefer... https://www.horn-u-copia.net/Reference/display.php

@trumpetb You can add to that Boogie Wonderland, Got to Get You into my life, In the Stone,

@georgeb said in Things to Come:

@dr-go

Yeah, Doc, and I'd love to see and hear them all but the admission price...well...

And again, my trumpet teacher for 18 of the months when I lived in NYC was a prior alumnus of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Claudio Roditi. The price Claudio charged me for an hour lesson... $20.00. Yes, my, how times have changed.

I think I posted this https://harderbop.blogspot.com/2011/04/james-carter-ruined-my-life.html on TM. It seems relevant to this discussion.

@rowuk said in Is this a Buescher?:

@j-jericho Yes, there are means to go around blocked sites. The problem is that the "free" VPNs are serious security risks. Even although I use a Mac with all of the proper security tools, after using one of those VPNs, strange porn sites can pop up in the browser.

Good point; that's why I said "... a good VPN or proxy server...". I use Norton's paid VPN. Someone who should know told me that their free VPN isn't worth the price, and neither are any of the other free ones.

@j-jericho said in TrumpetBoards Moving Servers this Week -- Expect Disruptions.:

@bigdub said

It did not work. There were no disruptions as promised.

FWIW - The next time I went to the TB website after liking your comment, I encountered Server Error. 🤨

I never made the disclaimer

@dale-proctor said in Funny story that's sort of trumpet related...:

I sat next to John Williams in a trumpet section years ago. No, not that John Williams…lol

A few years before Brassed Off, my concert band had the honour of playing a set directly after Grimethorpe had given an absolutely spellbinding, vituoso performance of the Lohengrin Prelude.

So I duly settled into the chair just vacated by THE Alan Morrison :

... and launched into Girl from Ipanema.

And that, my dear friends, is the very definition of the phrase 'from the sublime to the ridiculous'.

@administrator

A very touching and a very sad story as well.

@dale-proctor Looks like it was definitely the photo. The engraving looks great in this one. Beautiful! -Bob

SOLD - 9/8/21

@administrator
A) It is nothing like a didgeridoo - which, in fact, is just a wooden tube hollowed out by termites, without a proper mouthpiece (the end of the tube is rounded off for comfort)
b) Technically, it is a cornet (because of the conical shape of the bore).
And, to finish off, it is a Tibetan temple trumpet, the use of which is now prohibited due to Chinese rule in Tibet. Any such trumpets seized are sold off to collectors in the West...

@coolerdave said in Latest Steal:

My first Bach was a 43* my graduation present.. probably 1973 ... didn't know they made different models when I bought it... some guy at Sam Ash brought me in a room with 20 Bachs.. said find the one you like. Nice find!

Coolerdave, great to have you here!