I've found a few hints...
www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1344869
www.brasshistory.net/Lockie History.pdf
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/metro-lockie-music-exchange-trumpet-246893226
www.robbstewart.com/strucel-alto-trumpet
http://wwwtemp.rogerbobo.com/instruments/f_trumpet.shtml
It's a start, anyhow.
Presidential Candidate Biden about his long family history: "The Bidens were on Noah's Ark"
President Trump: "The Trump family, at the Flood, had their own boat!"
Still in fairly common use in Austrian wind bands...
"Emergency! There's a young man climbing up to my room!" -
"Madam, this is for the police. You called the fire service."
"Exactly! He needs a longer ladder!"
The first is a sturdily made beginners' instrument, the other one intended for accomplished players. No coordinated dimensions. Valves will NOT interchange. Don't even try - it's risky.
@dr-go It's the wrong slot here because there's not much to laugh about my condition. Since I temporarily left TB, I've had two large-scale eye surgeries, both to repair my retina ablation. #1 was fairly successful in that my torn and folded retina was returned to its rightful place, and after the operation, I still had about 30% vision left. But the retina developed massive scar tissue which tore the repair into pieces, and I had to undergo a second operation which lasted for a full five hours and was extremely painful; this was in mid-January, and since then I haven't seen much improvement - sight in my right eye is down to 10%, there is constant pain because the surgeons (some of the best in the country, fortunately) had to put a tight silicon band all round the eyeball which is still in place six weeks later... I am unable to drive, unable to bend down (because that would risk another ablation), unable to do almost anything, have been prohibited from touching a trumpet for six months now (and that's no empty advice, my ophthalmic surgeon is a trumpet player of some note)... there is the constant threat of a third operation looming, and of course the statistical fact tht there is a 15% risk of my other eye getting a retinal ablation within the year... I honestly don't know how I would survive such a blow. All in all, a pretty bleak outlook.
Well, the topic been abundantly discussed now, so I am closing this thread - to avoid pistols at dawn.
@administrator IMHO, you should go for something that will really represent you as a musical individual. I've got nothing against Yammies; but I am repulsed by their predictable, reliable sameness. Many people like that; but for me, it just means that you are predictable and not an individual. That is why I have given up on new horns altogether. There was a time when I had a full set of Stomvis (Bb, C, D/Eb, picc) and really liked them; but then, I happened upon a 1940s Buescher Aristocrat, with the result that I now play the Buescher, and an old Courtois for a D, and a 1970s Besson for an Eb, and the Stomvis had to go on. With these old horns, I always got the feeling that somehow I am continuing tradition, that somehow those guys who played these hooters before me are still alive in their horns...
As to getting yourself an instrument - you can't go wrong with, say, an Olds Recording or Studio (have both - can be used anywhere.) Or you can go for a 1980s Selmer or Courtois... the possibilities are endless. Get yourself a cheap solid horn first to get back into shape - Olds Ambassador, or a 4000 series Yammie, or a Stomvi Forte, or an intermediate Getzen - and then work up until you are back to being able to say which horn you now want and what is suitable for you. IME, as soon as you are ready for it, the right horn will find you. It's not the other way round.
What's cheek?
Send a card "get better soon" to a viola player who's not sick.
(stolen from Rowuk)
Not trumpet, but French horn, but still unbelievable...
https://www.facebook.com/FelixKlieser/videos/515111756293870
@bigdub Extremely rare... especially as in that picture a heron is standing in for the stork...
@bigdub Most people at some point in their lives have been in Consistent, and many senior citizens are now residing in Continent.
@bigdub Finally, police asked a bystanding viola player: "Can you tell us something?" - "What about?"
@tjcombo A more or less accurate description of Austria at the moment... (Austrian police vehicle and uniforms in the pic)
