Posts made by barliman2001

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...

@administrator Thanks; but a frumpet has the wrong sound for what I need to play.

@stumac You might give me his contact details...

Seems that in the coming years, I will be doing lots of Brahms (and contemporaries) on 2nd trumpet... at least eight times per year, with suitable rehearsal periods, in quite a few very interesting locations; now many of those original 2nd trumpet parts were written for trumpet in F, and I really don't like the idea of playing them with a modern instrument - especially as I don't like transposing, and in many cases there are no transposed Bb parts avalaible.
Does anone here know of a viable - playable! - F trumpet that might become available in the very near future? First gig would be in October...

All the best for our recovery!
Having recently suffered a minor stroke, I know what it is to lie around in hospitals... a good cure during rehab was seeing all those other patients who had been hit far harder than me.

From day one, I had my pocket trumpet with me to practise; unfortunately without a mute. I then ordered Thomann's own brand warm-up mute which did the job. Nice, small, and well intonated, it surprised me as being better than the Wick... can only recommend it.
As to sound reduction: Quite a few nurses encouraged me to play, seeing my horn. And were very astonished when I told them that I was working on Arban up to two hours per day. No one outside my room had noticed...

https://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_compact_warmup_trumpet_mute.htm

@barliman2001
Pistoia, 2022

With the Vienna Klezmer Orchestra in Lviv/Ukraine

Playing Repiano Cornet with the Vienna Boy Scouts' Band

Playing a large-scale ball in Munich, with my main big band (www.bbmf.de)

@administrator There are amateur orchestras aplenty, with very different standards. And there are amateur orchestra projects that differ even more widely. On the top end, there are companies out there offering orchestra projects for amateurs to join, with top-class coaches and conductors (I've booked my next project already, in Sicily in April www.dacapo-travel.eu), in exciting locations, with warmth and good food thrown in (http://www.musicandoitaly.com/en/stageitaly.html). These are highl recommendable as they offer real musical class and the chance of being a member of a high quality orchestra (many of the people attending these are retired professionals). I've been attending such workshops for some years now, and have found new friends (amongst them the former Principal Trumpet of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) and played in very special settings... pics to follow...

@administrator If you think of coing over and making a living off music - forget about it. The few paying jobs there are will usually go to the local guys, with the proper hive smell about them.
Covid-19 killed off many venues and chances for paid music, and now inflation is smothering the rest. Why are there currently so many good musical instruments for sale online? Yes, it's because professionals are selling their instruments or at least their backups just to eat and stay warm.
As for mere playing opportunities - if you don't want money for it, still plentiful. Many bands out there welcoming players for a sit-in. If you want to try this - welcome.

Very much depends on WHERE in Europe...

Still in fairly common use in Austrian wind bands...

As always, ROWUK has hit the nail on the head...