@Kujo20 said in First Horns:

My first horn was a used Yamaha YTR2320.

Served me well for several years until I upgraded to a Xeno. The 2320 was still used as a bad weather marching horn.

Hello, are you me?

I started on the music school's rental YTR-2320 which had trouble with the third valve sticking. Probably impact damage on the third slide. After a couple years, my parents sprung for a used identical trumpet (minus the sticky valve).

I still have that second horn but I'm considering selling it since it is still a decent enough player and I don't do as many marching gigs (or drunk gigs for that part) as I used to, and anyway I mostly play some kind of lower brass when marching, these days.

Thomas Gansch is doing concerts from his living room, live streamed every Saturday, soliciting donations.
This one with Georg Breinschmid is crazy at times, brilliant always. Music starts at ca 8.55. How can they mix bebop with polka, and at that tempo?

What other things are musicians getting up to, now that there are no gigs anymore?

I love this kind of initiative which shows how creativity can be stimulated by restrictions. Suddenly, they have time to pursue video production because regular rehearsals and concerts are prohibited!

(I guess it goes without saying that Sweden only banned crowds over 50 people, so far. It still seems a little risky to seat more than one player per car but at least they're not breaking any laws.)

A musician friend of mine is giving 30-minute concerts on Facebook once a week. She live streams, and people can send in donations via the local equivalent of Paypal. I guess it is paying off decently enough because she's now going on five weeks. She's also given (paid) "balcony gigs" at a home for the elderly. That is, the patients are on their balconies, and she played outside.

I'm so sad I couldn't catch this live, but darn, it works really well as an on-demand stream.

It's amazing the names that are suddenly available for this kind of light-hearted thing. All my heroes, on one stream!

Edit: I think Arturo is right, no-one apart from Sarah could have gotten all these faces up on one screen simultaneously.

@administrator I think it's a great idea! I hope it gets traction. I will certainly be glad to post about my horns and some I tested, once I find the time.

There are plenty of "user reviews" on shopping sites, but as a shopper, I never know if I can trust them. Buyers on, say, thomann.de, tend to only review horns they liked. At least, that's my theory to explain why everything comes with 5-star reviews... Hopefully, an independent site will be free of some bias!

@Kehaulani Then it would no longer be the perfect fit it was for my Yamaha and other trumpets...

Yeah I know, I could own two harmon mutes. But the discovery coincided with a friend really needing a new trumpet, and after playing my Olds, it was clear it was meant for him.

Loved my old Recording. Unfortunately it didn't take modern harmon mutes well, for some reason they kept falling out. Sold it to a player who doesn't need it in a big band...
I take it this model has a pretty mainstream bell design? Might be better for my use, then...

Without knowing any trumpeters in particular beginning with "Z", yeah a 1503 must be it, being Kanstul's "72LT clone".

So I take it the Plaza is not a straight up copy of any Kanstul? The name makes me think of the Kanstul Coliseum but the specs don't match up.

@Kehaulani said in Mouthpiece recommendations for young beginners:

Well, here we go in circles. Isn't a Yamaha 11C4, Yamaha's take on the Schilke 11?

I think it is, yes. And not coincidentally, an 11C4 was included with my Yamaha beginner's horn in the 80s, so that's what I played all the way up to age 23. It's actually marked "11C4/7C".

I noted they now include their 11B4 with (at least some of) their student line. I suppose that should work well for youngsters, except if the student has thick enough lips to find the B cup too shallow. Both pretty middle-of-the-road pieces, on the smaller side. They ship a 16C4 with their pro line trumpets - IMO, they might as well not include one...

@OldSchoolEuph said in BAC Plaza:

Kanstul DNA

Is there anything particular about this model that shows a Kanstul heritage? I assume you're seeing details either in the picture or description that I'm overlooking.

If we look at the description of their Paseo 'Z72' Model Trumpet, they leave not-so-veiled hints. Not sure why they couldn't use the trademark, I guess that was not included in the sale. Anyone know exactly what model they mean by "one of the more popular commercial models"?

https://www.coolisbac.com/paseo

The tooling used for this instrument came from a very respected American workshop in Anaheim, CA, and was one of the more popular Commercial Models produced among studio and session players.