Keep it simple - no profanity, no name calling, nothing unrelated to trumpets/cornets/flugelhorns/etc. and musical topics in general. That gives topics a pretty wide latitude without excessive rules. Be civil to your fellow members if there’s a disagreement on some point, and keep things PG in case younger people are looking in.
Anyone here into photographing railroad subjects? Years ago, I was interested in both photography and trains, and took a lot of photos of them, mostly with an old Miranda 35mm camera. I still like photography, but I don’t chase trains any more...lol
Anyway, to get things started, I’ll post a few of the ones I’ve taken for any who are interested. Feel free to post any you have taken, but please don’t post generic pics found on the net.
@N1684T said in Hello! Welcome to TB, who are you?:
I found a copy of American Drummer Boy on Ebay. Love civil war stuff.....
I ran across this screen shot of me playing Eb cornet in the movie. That’s me on the end by the stair. 
Hope you all have a happy and safe upcoming 4th, even those of you in other countries. Here’s a photo I took a number of years ago that is appropriate.
I saw this cool jazz trio on a walk through the neighborhood this morning. Can you dig it? 
Took some new pics of this cool little cornet. Made from German silver, oval-port Allen valves.
Note: If you click on the pictures, they are higher resolution.
A few new glamour shots of a rare instrument...
...click on the photos for higher resolution...
In my opinion, rubber is good if the water key and nib are in really good alignment when the key is closed. If they’re a little out of alignment, cork will deform a bit to seal better.
Yes. I held the water key open with one hand and popped the old cork out with a mini screwdriver. Held it open again and slid the new cork in. Here are two I did a few weeks ago.
Yes, it’s not very difficult to do. I just replaced one that way this week.
@Gendreauj said in Universal copper top and bottom valve caps:
As a very amateur comeback hobbyist player these cornets are good enough for my needs.
Buying these Chinese cornets does stop me for running up my credit card.
In the past, I have owned many used vintage, student, intermediate horns. Also several modern professionals trumpets.
Quit playing for four years and I am shocked at the price of used horns.
I bought my new ACB doubler for less than a beat up intermediate cornet on eBay.
Both cornets are cheaper than a used quality used professional cornet.
If the cornets play well for you and you like them, there’s nothing wrong with that! I used to own all sorts of older, inexpensive trumpets and cornets that I bought mainly just to see how they played. I came to the realization that for what I’d spent on them, I could have bought a couple nice used upper-tier horns. Over a span of a couple years, I sold most of them that I never played (and some were really nice instruments) and kept the ones I did. Variety is the spice of life, as they say, but I decided the closet full of old, rarely-played horns might be better enjoyed by other people. I’m down to 10 now, and that seems to be a good assortment - two antique 19th century cornets I kept as collectors’ items, two more modern cornets, 3 Bb trumpets (one is an inexpensive one for “high traffic” gigs), a C trumpet, an Eb/D trumpet, and a flugelhorn.
Sounds like you’re enjoying yourself, and new and/or different horns are a good incentive for practice. Have a good time with it and add some bling to them if you like. I’ve had a few horns customized in the past…nothing wrong with that.
I’d just get an inexpensive set of caps that fit correctly and have them copper plated. As part of an overhaul years ago, I had an entire bell copper plated, and it wasn’t very expensive at the time.
@Gendreauj said in Conn.Coprion student ? trumpet.:
One of my first trumpets was a Conn Coprion. Loved the color of the trumpet. Good student horn for the time and built like a tank.
Would love to find a copper professional horn.
Conn made a few, like the 10B Artist trumpet and the 9A Victor cornet. I have a 1962 Conn 9A cornet and it’s a great instrument.
I had one and wasn’t very impressed. In my opinion, the cornet version (17A) is a better instrument.
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