Posts made by barliman2001

@mediocreplayer Well, that guy says he knows all of those people... might be interesting to ask him for proof... or ask even one of those people whether they know him?

I can proudly claim to have known Maurice André, Guy Touvron, Fred Mills and Dusko Goykovich; and I know Sergey Nakariakov, Jens Lindemann and Ron Romm, and I can prove it with a single old Yamaha double trumpet case...

By the way, there are a few more signatures on this case: David Ohanian, Eugene Watts and Chuck Daellenbach (you can't just ask the trumpet players of Canadian Brass to sign when the others are watching...)

Famous trumpet or cornet players I have met, but without carrying that case: Phil McCann, James Morrison (even attended one of his master classes), Wynton Marsalis, Al Porcino, Maynard Ferguson (he is my oldest memory of a big band concert), Reinhold Friedrich. As to East German trumpet star Ludwig Güttler: I was carrying that case and he was actually ASKING to sign it, but I refused, saying only true trumpet artists should be on that case. To this day I honour his commitment to getting Dresden's Church of Our Lady rebuilt; but as a trumpet player, I detest his practice of having only his own picture and name on his recordings, and when you look closely, most pieces are played by his colleague Kurt Sandau.

@SSmith1226 Thanks for the info - I was too lazy for all that research.

@SSmith1226 In all the recordings I have come across, she is using a 1950s-vintage Conn.

Well, the homepage is one that is very easily quickly set up; no location or address - just an e-mail, and a free g-mail address at that - I would not be happy doing business with them.

"Collecting" is a very bland word for the quirks and quandaries of fate that lead to accumulating horns...
I won my first trumpet in a raffle. Rather a bugle - just a tube, a bell, and something that today reminds me somewhat of a proper mouthpiece. Tried it out, got some noise out of it, and next morning went into the nearest music shop and bought myself what was advertised as a "complete trumpet kit". Chinese "Comet" TSO, mouthpiece, case, oil, white gloves.
Experimented for a week, and then took courage and money in my hands and got myself a Bach Strad 239 (C trumpet with Bb slides). And from that day onwards, I was hooked. Many horns came and went:
Bach Strad Rotary C
Bach Strad F
Stomvi - Elite C, D/Eb, Picc; Forte Pocket
Besson Kanstul Picc
Selmer K-Mod, 2 Bb/A piccs, G picc
Scherzer G picc
Ganter: G5 Bb rotary, G3 D rotary, G7A Bb rotary, Custom, G 15 rotary flugel, P50 (piston Bb)
Votruba Pro rotary flugel
Thomann Black Jazz flugel (only four weeks)
Courtois 154R flugel
Dowids Jazzline Custom
Weltklang Bb cornet
Besson International Bb cornet (2)
Besson Imperial Class A Bb cornet
Besson pre-Imperial Bb/A cornet
Buescher Aristocrat #9, #12, 264
Buescher Aristocrat 244 Bb cornet
Olds Ambassador, Special, Studio, Recording
Courtois Balanced Bb (2)
Courtois 1970s Bb cornet
King Tempo cornet
Anonymous French cornet, around 1910
Besson Sovereign Round Stamp soprano cornet
ACB doubler's picc
That's all I can remember; I've put those in bold that are still with me.
Currently, I am paying for a Kühnl & Hoyer Eb bass trumpet.

@SSmith1226 Shaye Cohn is an outstanding performer on that ancient cornet...

@grune Actually, the Tchaikovsky is played on a C trumpet.

Eve more incredible:

@acarcido Unfortunately, Offerup can ony be seen in the US, not elsewhere. Please make it more accessible.

@ROWUK The ad has already been moved into Classifieds

@BigDub It can do that much quicker!

@SSmith1226 Oh, you've got that wonderful combination tool... right, oboe reed tuner, clarinet pad shaver and (biggest) the banjo tuner, and left, the two musician's nutrition helpers...

You might like Nikolay Iliev's new BONONIA flugelhorn, with a "left-handed" wrap and an unusual hand position... www.iliev-brass-music.com

@mediocreplayer I had a similar problem with the Stomvi Elite Piccolo... with the first valve sticking during slow play. All kinds of work on the valve did not help even though the instrument was returned for repair several times. Finally, the late Uli Pfreimbtner found that the valve block was ok, I just tended to grip the valve block in slower passages and thus pressed the valve casings too hard...

And Nikolay also provides a very good traditionally-styled student flugelhorn, the DUNONIA model. Here is a demo video:

Just wanted everyone here to know that there is a new, very novel and very versatile flugelhorn out there... the BONONIA by Iliev Brass Music in Bulgaria.

Nikolay Iliev is a well-versed trumpet professional currently doing great work in getting disadvantaged kids off the streets and into his wind band project at the school he is working at as Head of Music... his work in repairing the instruments donated to this school for his kids to continue playing has made him into a respectable instruments craftsman, and combining his life-long experience as a professional with ideas he picked up from all over the place led him to develop a new flugelhorn which is intended to be the answer to a multitude of questions in the flugelhorn world...

The BONONIA flugelhorn is a high-riding, "wrong-way-round" flugelhorn (somewhat like some ideas of Ray Farr) which allows the bell to swing freely except for a couple of stays for stability. The right hand is supported by an extra bit of tubing carrying a pinkie ring that can be swapped for an attached hook, and the distance from valve block to hook/ring can be easily adjusted. The leadpipe can currently take two different mouthpiece receivers - one for a normal small shank flugelhorn mouthpiece, and one that accepts both trumpet and alto horn mouthpieces. There will be additional mouthpiece receivers for French Horn mouthpieces and for small shank trombone mouthpieces.

I have test-driven the prototype, and came to the following conclusion:
The BONONIA flugelhorn is of outstanding consistency. With a flugelhorn mouthpiece, all registers up to double C are within easy reach and really consistent, with slotting being very precise while still allowing for some leeway. It is veerycomfortable to hold as you can easily rest your left elbow on your hip while playing... a very good fixture for those long gigs.
With a flugel mouthpiece, sound is as it should be - warm and cuddly, while always ready to strip paint if required. With a trumpet mouthpiece, the upper register becomes even easier to reach and the sound goes in the direction of a slightly brash rotary flugelhorn. And with an alto horn mouthpiece, you get the feeling of a really plushy comfort blanket or cuddly toy while barely compromising on the high register. A well-balanced sound.

Here is a video of the BONONIA flugelhorn, in all of its currently possible configurations:

Why saxophones are almost universally hated...

@BigDub The mouthpiece receiver is under the bell bow.

@ljeanmtz The main danger is retinal ablation which can lead to blindness. Apart from busting a blood vessel - which is a dangerous sign in itself! - retinal ablation is a condition where the seeing part of the eye - the retina - loses contact with the eye background, often rupturing inn the process. First warning signs are blurry vision in that eye and swarms of black dots. When the damage is already done, the eyeball usually slowly fills with blood, creating a sensation that your vision is through a red filter - until it goes black. It is a condition that needs immediate surgical help, or the eye will go black permanently.
I had "bloody vision" happen to me during an orchestra holiday in Sicily; I was diagnosed almost immediately in the local hospital and sent to Palermo for treatment - which I politely declined when I saw the nurses chasing a few street cats out of the operating theatre... I was medevacced to Munich and was operated upon within two days; but the damage was already done. Since then, I have only had the use of one eye.
So, don't hesitate to see a specialist NOW!

@J-Jericho Fairly common at the time... I've got three cornets with that water key design. Prone to getting untight.