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@Dr-GO said in More info about me:

But is he the utimate?

No, that will be the globalist Moderator

@Bob-Pixley said in Very Nice 1929 Conn 22B Trumpet For Sale:

I've sold horns and shipped them to Europe before, but once they leave the U.S., you lose a measure of security and confidence that they will actually make it to the buyer.

I would like to take the risk; the instrument I shipped to Charlie Melk for a valve job did return without problems so I guess an insured shipping should be a possibility that this very Conn 22B once could be mine

Let's do it Bob!

Hello Bob, you say you do not ship to foreign countries. Can't you make an exception for me? I really want to buy this beauty from you. I live in The Netherlands. A very nice country with a lot of tulips and windmills but with a lack of 22b's...
Greetings, Theo from 020

The 1991 Getzen Eterna 900 LB that crossed my path one year ago made me sell most of my other horns...

I was thinking, what about the difference between a rotary trumpet and flugelhorn?

@barliman2001 said in Courtois Balanced Model...:

@Dirk020 Yes indeed. And I've seen video footage of the endoscopic inspection Votruba are doing on every instrument they take in for resale.

That is odd, I've never seen an old Courtois without red rot. Except of course for my 1971 C-trumpet mod. R. Delmotte (great horn!)

@barliman2001 said in Courtois Balanced Model...:

no red rot

Are you sure this is a vintage Courtois

@Jolter said in Looking for Besson Meha piston (Kanstul):

Re-plating is quite expensive in my locale (Sweden) so I'm hesitant to do it even if it usually works well. The horn is really nice though, if only that valve worked... Plays excellently up high, more nimble than my Xeno somehow.

Wat do you find quite expensive?

A few years ago (november 2017) I shipped an Olds Super to Charlie Melk in the USA, he did a valve job for the 3 valves, minor dent work and aligning the 3nd tube. It costs me all together €550.- that is incl. shipping. If just one valve needs replacing I bet it will cost you less

The Olds returned technically like new

Over here in Holland there was a guy who was looking for a specific trumpet to play Mariachi. I convinced him to buy my Buesscher True Tone Custom peashooter from 1927
He told me he could not play M-bore instruments so I told him the Buesscher was ML-bore. He bought the horn and was very happy! Perfect trumpet for Mariachi he said to me.

Later I told him to measure the bore since it was in fact a M-bore horn that I sold to him. He didn't believe me until he checked it out

I am happy to sell the horn to the right person, to me she played and sounded like my Bach ML 180-37, a very good horn

A friend of me went to Guardelajara to participate the Mariachi fest, he played on a Bach 180-37, his fellow trumpeter played a Schilke B5

So, in a nutshell, a decent player who can play like a Mariachi can play Mariachi on every bright sounding trumpet

I once had a peashooter, it was a Buesscher True Tone Custom

It played and sounded much like my late Vincent Bach 180-37 ML


I sold her to a guy who couldn't believe she was M-bore haha!

@Kehaulani, just read the last post of OldScoolEuph, he explains this mith very well

Although I have a bunch of trumpets lying around here I would not call myself a collector; the reason I buy instruments is that I am after all this years still curious about how they play.
Last week a Yamaha YTR 637 appeared on the marketplace over here and since this is supposed to be a Schilke B5 clone I decided to buy it, just out of curiosity, I never played a Schilke so this was to me a great opportunity to try one (okee, not the Real Thing but still) for a nice price.
I don't think she will be a keeper, simply because of my Getzen Eterna trumpets both sound better and (to me) play easier. Nevertheless a nice experiment and a nice experience

At my place trumpets come and trumpets go, I think I already tried over 30 different horns but still my curiosity is not satisfied so who knows...

@grune said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:
haven't experimented a great deal with back bore per se, but have trialled hundreds of mouthpieces.

Time to try the Warburton system

You will be surprised!

Last week I run into another Getzen 900 Eterna, this time a ML-bore from 1986. Build in the same way as my 900 LB (so the brace NOT in the tuning slide like the Severinsen and the recent 'Classic' models but placed between the lead pipe and the tube that goes straight into the 3th valve. The bell diameter is a little different; the ML bell is a little smaller) but sound wise different: the ML is way brighter than the sound delivered by the bell of the LB horn (played with the same mouthpiece). The 1986 Eterna 900 ML has a broader sound rather like my Eterna 700s

Playing characteristics are approximate the same speaking about resistance in the blow however, I find the ML a little an easier player

Funny how different the Getzen Eterna 900 can play

The last horns I bought where all second hand horns bought from the Dutch on-line marketplace. I have a pretty good idea what kind of horns I like; bright sounding horns so I leave big bell 72-ish horns for other people.
I stopped buying student horns although they do usually play well, I find pro horns better sounding

After unpacking the parcel I look to the horn for imperfections like dirty valves and or slides, if so, I clean them. I oil the valves, grease the slides and put my regular mouthpiece in it with my regular backbore.

First I do scales slowly up and down, especially C# major and F# major to examine if there are intonation issues, I do this by ear since I have to play by ear in orchestras as well.
After this lip flexibilities to feel the response of the horn, I compare the new horn to my favorite horn, a Getzen Eterna 700s.
My practice room has a nice acoustics so I compare the sound by playing a ballad on the new horn as well to the Getzen 700s, the new horn should sound 'better' than the Getzen 700s other way it doesn't make sense to keep her.
I play arpeggios with variabel articulations to check response as well and how free blowing is the new horn. If she is too much free blowing (like my late Bach 180-43*) I polish the horn and resell her.

Finally I take the horn out for rehearsal in both the symphonic orchestra and our Herb Alpert tribute band, when she preforms well the horn is a keeper until I run into an even better instrument

Good instruments you always can sell for a good price so I find this a good way of doing investigation

The current Getzen 900 Eterna I played for the last two years is a L bore one, made in 1992. I like this horn a lot, not only for the playability but for the sound she generates as well. I play her along with a Getzen Eterna 700s, the 900 I use in a symphony orchestra, the 700 I use for non classical music since the latter has a more brighter sound which helps along electric guitars and so on
A few months ago I had the opportunity to try a Eterna 900 ML from 1978, a Severinsen model although that was not written on the bell but guess what: I didn't like it!
The 70's Eterna to me was too much free blowing so I sold her. I guess I like horns with resistance in the blow

Funny thing is that the '92 LB Eterna has way more resistance in the blow rather than the '78 ML Eterna; another proof that bore sizes say little to nothing

I like valves that never let me down. My Getzen horns never let me down but the new bought Straub with Baurnfeind and my 80's Bach did... That was The Horror

But actually, at least 60 second hand horns later, I never had valve issues with later horns like Conn 22B, Conn 22B USA, Julius Keilwerth, Selmer Radial, Selmer, Yamaha (even one with plate loss!), B&S, Antoine Courtois, Melody Maker, Martin Handmade, Jupiter, XO Brass, King, Schenkelaars, Olds, Buesscher, Holton and the ones I already forget had fine valves so what can I say?

I like the Yamaha valves and the valves of my later Bach trumpets where great as well; good compression even after 30 years of intensive use.

Since I like Getzen instruments I tend to have a favor for Getzen valves but actually I have to admit that there are many great valves out there

@tmd I have such Royal Crown bag too! Inside houses a Jo-Ral straight, as well I carry a Sshhmute and a Harmon Type-B mute

@FranklinD said in Does a large bore horn take more air?: the problem of large bore horns is that you have to play them more efficient, when that's ok and there is found a balance (resistance) in horn, mouthpiece cup, throat and backbore, the differences in air flow will be minimal.

But still that doesn't explain why my Getzen Eterna 900 LB from early 90's doesn't take more air than my Getzen Severinsen ML from the 70's, or that my Conn 18B Director M bore has the same 'feel' like my Getzen Capri ML bore

All trumpets played with the same mouthpiece

I think the biggest factor in how much air a horn takes is the shape of the bell (72 ish or 37 ish) or/and the venturi in the lead pipe, not the bore size

Lot of local wind bands used Schenkelaars instruments like our wind band did. Not only trumpets but flugelhorns, cornets, saxophones and low brass as well
Our wind band used the low class instruments, they where basically Olds Ambassador stencils but not as good as the Olds, the instruments suffered a lot from red rot so I do not have sweet memories about them

However, the Schenkelaars Prestige flugelhorn that I bought a few years ago is a well made instrument, nice in tune, easy to play, nothing like the old clunkers we had to play on 45 years ago!

So, maybe the Prestige trumpets are as well good instruments, as soon as I can lay a hand on one I will write a report