Posts made by barliman2001

Vincenzo, the 89-ear-old barber in Cefalu - quite a fan of classical music. All trumpet players from the Filarmonici di Cefalu get his services free!

A painted electric fuse board lid in Cefalu, Sicily. There are many such there.

@SSmith1226 Thank you very much!!

Oh, did you send me an e-mail with an attachment, "How an Eclipse works"?
If not, your e-mail has been hacked.

@Trumpetb If you don't blow, it sucks.

@J-Jericho Nice Bach C...

@J-Jericho You are d-n right with your last sentence!

@Richard-III Many early Buescher trumpets had that "wrong" wrap.

Nice! From the profile, a typical "peashooter" of the period...

I know that the threads differ according to the year of manufacture and that buttons for the Blessing Scholastic series of CORNETS don't fit on TRUMPETS.

@J-Jericho Thanks very much - exactly the info needed!

Some years ago, I got my hands on a Buescher Aristocrat Bb trumpet, model 244, serial number 634xxx. Yellow brass with nickel silver leadpipe, octagonal finger buttons and top and bottom valve caps, and trombone style water keys on both main and 3rd valve slides. Model 244 is not included in the Buescher catalogues published in horn-u-copia - even though later models as the 265 and 266 are - and the serial numbers list dates my instrument - which has all the style elements of a late art nouveau or Bauhaus instrument - at late 1975... Can anyone shed light on this mystery?

@rleegabe Ok then.

So now we can close this thread?

@administrator Eventhe Scholastics are not universally interchangeable as not all Scholastics come from the same factory...

@CaptainRat Ask Votruba in Vienna. They should be able to come up with something.

I am less concerned with the serial number than with the "Made in China" tag. As far as I am aware, the original Giardinelli trumpets were made in the US until the company folded. Someone in China - at least so I am given to understand - bought the rights to the name and is now producing Giardinelli trumpets tht have nothing in common with the rightly famed originals.

If someone knows better, they are invited to post here!

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.

@Dale-Proctor Even more to the point, there are Ambassadors, Ambassadors and Ambassadors... during the long production run of the name, the style and fittings of the Ambassadors changed so often that first-run and late-model Ambassadors only share the name...

@Patrick-Watters What has Reynolds to do with Olds?

@J-Jericho I had a Studio once, and loved it; but then, Votruba's of Vienna told me they had a Recording sitting there, unsold for man months because no one liked the Balanced style; and so I got it for a mere song (less than € 500): A 1954 LA Recording, almost unplayed, with almost virgin valves... now my main axe. I consequentl sold the Studio and was able to afford a Courtois Balanced as well... just out of the sale proceedings of the Studio...