I have a 1976 Bach Strad, ML 43 that is a terrific trumpet. I've owned it since the early 1980s, and although I've bought (and sold) many other trumpets since then, the Bach has always been my "go to" trumpet. Great sound and intonation, even scale, plays easily.
Official "sporting event" national anthem arrangement. Due to space constraints, only the first page is displayed...
I've never understood why directors punish the musicians with rehearsals right before a performance. Surely they realize they are tiring the musicians to the point that the last rehearsal is the best performance, not the concert. When faced with this dilemma, I usually sandbag during the rehearsal.
I have this old Conn that's pretty neat. I think it's a 9A or something like that...
H. Lenhert, Philadelphia, was in business from 1867-1914. Henry G. Lehnert (1838-1916), founder of the company, arrived in Boston from Saxony ca 1860 with his brother Carl. Early Boston directories indicate that they both worked either for E. G. Wright or for Graves & Co., then joining Freemantle & Co. before establishing business as Henry Lehnert & Co. In 1866 Henry moved to Philadelphia and started his brass musical instrument manufacturing business. He held a patent for the tapered cornet leadpipe and frequently used Allen rotary valves and German silver in the manufacture of his instruments, which had a very good reputation for quality. From 1876 through 1914, his instruments bore the trade name "American Standard".
This is the one I own, made of German silver with Allen valves, ca 1870.
Just practice it at the fastest speed you can do it correctly and gradually increase the speed. As others have said, muscle memory should take over if the tempo exceeds your ability to read the music. If it's a physical hand/finger issue, then it may not get significantly better with that approach.
We played a quintet with percussion arrangement of Liberty Bell as our final number at an outdoor concert a few years ago. No playing under the radar there...lol
I'm tired of playing (Christmas wore me out), so I'll be doing nothing trumpet related for New Year's Eve. I turned down a big band gig for that night to give my face a rest. My resolution for the new year is to practice more... lol
@Tobylou8 said in The One:
...You can't have too many horns and it is nice to pull them out for others to play and watch them drool!
I like to watch people drool as much as anyone else, but I've come to the realization that I DO have too many horns. I only play a few of them regularly, and when I do play one of the others (that has no sentimental or rarity value), I always think "why am I keeping this one?". To that end, I sold 3 last year and haven't missed them in the least. I believe a few more may be ripe for the picking, too.
@J-Jericho said in I was a member of the old Trumpetmaster board once.:
@Bob-Pixley You've got a mightily respected reputation to maintain with your new name.
Yes, I suppose I do. I can't spend a lot of time here because of my obligations as substitute 3rd Trumpet in The Herrodsburg Volunteer Fire Department Brass Quintet, but I'll post when I can...
@Comeback said in Mute Musings:
...The cup mute was my major disappointment. I had been using this old slightly misshapen black and white cup mute that came to me with some ratty black fabric glued to the inside of the cup portion. One of our numbers has the entire trumpet section playing cup muted harmonized parts. My sound simply disappeared with this old cup mute in my bell, along with the balance in our section. I’ll be using a standard red and white H&B cup mute going forward, I get much more volume when using it...
Jim
You can't go wrong with the H&B fiber cup mute. I see a lot of Wick adjustable cup mutes being used as the modern "standard", but to my ears, the H&B has the classic cup mute sound.
I suppose this is vintage - it’s 44 years old. 1976 Bach Stradivarius ML 43. It’s my go-to trumpet, great instrument.
I have a few old cornets piled in a corner of the spare bedroom. Sometimes I get them out of their cases and play them, but most all my playing gigs these days are for trumpet. I pulled one out last night and played through some of the solos (the sections I can play) in the back of one of the Clarke books. Cornets are fun to play!
Yes, that's a keyed bugle, not a valved bugle. Valved bugles are basically the forerunner of the flugelhorn. You'd think people at a museum would be able to get something so simple labled correctly, but I saw one of the instruments in the Gettysburg museum labled incorrectly, too.
By trial and error, I learned to play a borrowed Eb keyed bugle a number of years ago and performed a few simple pieces on it before the owner asked for it back and traded it for another instrument. There was no "standard" setup for them, and the number of keys varied from horn to horn. If I remember correctly, all the keys raise the pitch, except for the one nearest the bell flare, which is normally open and lowers the pitch when used.
I'm using the "Dale Proctor" avatar with his permission. We are pretty tight...lol
Earlier, I posted my trumpet that's "the one". I'll follow it up with my cornet that's "the one". I have another that's a close second, but this is my favourite. 1994 Bach Strad 184, large bore with the gold brass bell option and "Bach Stradivarius Deluxe" engraving. Beautiful tone, plays well, and looks nice, too. I recently bought an old Connstellation 5-CW cornet mouthpiece and this little cornet really sings with it. The Conn mouthpiece is in the size range of a Bach 1-1/2C, but has a larger throat and different backbore - it really seems suited to the 184 (and me) for general cornet playing, but brass band demands a different mouthpiece, of course.
My favourite cornet is an old Bach 184. I have an old Conn with a copper bell and leadpipe that's pretty special, too.
