Posts made by Bob Pixley

@N1684T said in 1953 Conn 80A Cornet:

I have a couple of early 20's 80A's and they have conventional valves. Not sure when the switch was.

Conn switched to those stupid, complicated bottom-sprung valves in the early 1930s.

I've been to a few funerals where Taps was sounded on an electronic bugle. It sounded pretty good to me, but a good live rendition is always better. I have a Kanstul field trumpet (which most people call a bugle) that I use when sounding Taps. It is a well made instrument, much better than those "US Regulation" ones the military and Boy Scouts used back in the day.

I sold one like that last year for $225, a 1954 model. It played well, but I never used it.

Trying to turn a crappy horn into a good one is a waste of time and money. Usually, the higher pitched the trumpet, the worse the cheap ones are.

After a long layoff, I played with a local community band for a few years to get my chops back in a low-stress situation. Home practice is a great thing, but you can't measure your progress very well without playing in a group of some sort, preferably populated by better players than you are. It was great fun.

I used to own a Mt. Vernon ML 43. It was a nice trumpet, but I sold it.

@GeorgeB said in Favorite Cornet:

I love my 1962 Conn Victor 5A

Nice 5A!