Posts made by barliman2001

@bigdub Wayne, I presume you started playing music on a viola. Only viola players can't count to three...
You know:
Conductor, "Start again at measure 2!"
Violas: "We don't have numbers!!"

@jamusu Quite a few jazz people have used kuhlohorns.

Instruments that have been lying around unplayed can get up to quirks of their own... A friend once presented me with a King Tempo cornet that just did not let any air through. Turned out someone in the previous history had stuffed chewing.gum into the tubing, just where the bell leaves #1 valve... another instrument proved to have a wasps' nest inside... and in another, the valve disintegrated into two parts when depressed; when not in use, it was ok... if you've got a proctologist for a friend, let him run his endoscope through the instrument in his leisure hours...

For me, they are the first line of defence whenever I try out a "new" horn (new to me, that is. I have abandoned buying new horns), and they work well for a first clean before you try and buy.

@_mark_ Ask flugelgirl. She should know.

Quite a few people - even in the old TM days - have discussed how to store and present a trumpet collection. I always told them that my tame joiner made a special cabinet for me, holding up to forty trumpets... naturally, there were many shouts, "Pics! Pics!", and I never got round to doing that. But now, with the "quiet time of the year" coming up, I managed a snapshot.
Originally, that cabinet was more or less the only large bit of furniture in the room. But then, the piano had to move in there, my wife's desk followed, and after the sale of one or two trumpets, my wife decided that the other horns should stand closer together for warmth so that she could take over one of the compartments... sorry for the mess...
From top to bottom, keft to right:
B&H Sovereign trombone (in case)
Vintage trombone, from a Bavarian maker (in gig bag)
Weltklang Euph (in gig bag)

1952 Courtois Balanced
2019 ACB Doubler Bb/A picc (almost invisible)
1982 Conn International (Amati stencil) lacquered blue and with an enamelled drunken vulture on the bell
1969 Selmer G picc
1980 Courtois D
1940s Buescher Aristocrat 265
1980s Gaudet (Courtois) C
1950s Olds Recording

1960s Besson International cornets x 2
1990 Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
1970s Courtois Bb cornet
1992 Ganter Eb Soprano cornet
1950s Besson International Baritone

1930s bass trumpet, unplayable, in memory of a passed friend
1900s HP Bb cornet, engraved "Kinneil Memorial Cornet" presented to me by Kinneil Band at my leaving Scotland and remembering my being an Honourary Member and Honourary Conductor...
Besson Imperial Eb Sop cornet
Besson Imperial Bb cornet
Jupiter Soprano trombone
... and the thing that started the schemozzle... Imitation of a cavalry trumpet, in fact a bit of bent tubing with something remotely like a mouthpiece at one end and something like a bell at the other... won it it a charity raffle, and never looked back...

Odds and ends of my wife's, including her Grammy medal hanging from the handle...

Storage for gig bags underneath, and lots and lots of sheet music and bits and pieces in the middle...

@j-jericho US, anyway. Could not be anywhere else.

Just listen, and comment...
Same concert, with top performers of their times...
first, Adolf Scherbaum, with one of the first piccolo trumpets, 1961

Maurice André, 1966

Then, 1970, with Pierre Thibaud, with an early Selmer picc,

Maurice André, 1979

Maurice André, 1989
Youtube Video

Reinhold Friedrich, 2007

Friedemann Immer, 2000
Youtube Video

And the crystal meth version, with John Eliot Gardiner and Neil Brough

Finally, the hardcore version, without any valves or holes or helps whatsoever...

@j-jericho Texas?

@administrator Like a Kuhlohorn ;)... somewhere between a very, VERY wide cornet and a narrow flugel. It certainly is an elegant sound. In the Vienna Klezmer Orchestra, a big flugel would have had difficulties because of the multitude of clarinets (five clarinet parts and up to eight players each!), but the Kuhlohorn easily dominated the clarinets without being trumpety.

My Kuhlohorn, made pre-1930 by Clemens August Glier in Markneukirchen, has been living an extremely undisturbed life in my trumpet cabinet... I simply don't have the gigs for it, now that the Vienna Klezmer Orchestra has folded. But it is too good to just stand and wait - it needs to be played. So I am letting it go to anyone who promises to play it.
It's in play-at-once shape, all valves move fast and have good compression, the slides pop nicely. Several small dings on the upper side, but nothing serious (see pictures). Last serviced July 2021 by Votruba in Vienna.
Takes normal trumpet shank mouthpieces, sounds best with deep trumpet cups. Intonation as good as it gets for a Kuhlohorn.
Any offers accepted, + $70 international postage and packing. Highest offer before 1 January wins!!
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@j-jericho For the worst part of Russian Communism, the French song "L'internationale" served as national anthem of the USSR...

@djeffers78 I can't quite see the connection between Communism and music, and of course, (disallowed topic) what allows you to pronounce that Communism and Marxism are on the rise in the States?

Yes, I know, Courtois and dating don't go well together...
but I just got a Courtois cornet from Ukrainian dealer Igor Igor (three concentric cardboard boxes and then the original case, well protected with bubble wrap inside). Condition almost as new. Serial # is 72xx, has the name Gustave Murset engraved on bell.
Probably 1950s or 1960s - but can't date. Anyone out there who might be able to help? Info on Gustave Murset also welcome.

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

As you are into vintage horns anyway - the Benge shows it - why not try something less pricey than a Committee or a new Adams or Schilke? I'm not a fan of bright and brassy myself - my hero was and is Maurice André - so I'm deep into French vintage horns. Yes, my main axe is an Olds Recording for Big Band; but for anything soft and warm, I get out my Buescher 264 (warm, velvety sound, yet slotting perfectly) or my Courtois Balanced. That one seems to know beforehand what I want to do... and of course there are several Stomvi horns out there that play warm and without sharp edges. I've just secured a Courtois Chambord cornet... still in the post...

@mike-ansberry Actually, glaucoma is excessive pressure in the eyes, and it can be treated with special eye drops.

@dr-go Thanks!