I had a C7 come through my shop. It played beautifully.

Praying for your recovery.

@Dr-GO said in Valve oils:

I only know of Carling Black Label beer. It's not a valve oil, but if you consume enough when playing, you will be less concerned as to the action the valves.

Great. Now I have that jingle stuck in my head.

@Dale-Proctor You are the famous Bob Pixley! Wow, I am impressed.

@Bob-Pixley said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

How about this one - 1976 Olds Ambassador Eb/D trumpet. Pretty rare for a good reason...it isn’t a very good instrument...lol

Are you interested in getting rid of it?

Gotta steal this one.

My daughter and her husband bought me the Blue Mitchell Complete Album Collection last Christmas. This was one of 8 albums in the collection. They are all fantastic. Incredible playing. It has been in my regular rotation since then.

I use Berp BioOil 3 on my old Super Recording. The valves are a little worn and it helps a bunch.

The reason for kicker slides:

The basic trumpet is built to play in tune when using no valves. Lowering the pitch a half step is based on a percentage of the overall length. So when you use your second valve it is built at the correct percentage. When you play with just the first valve down it is a correct percentage. When you push down the first and the second valve, the valves are built on a percentage of the overall length of the open instrument. But now with two valves down the overall length is a little shorter than the correct percentage. With 2 & 3 it is a little more too short. When you get to 1 & 3 and 1,2, and 3 it is noticeably too short.

This is a simplistic explanation. There are other variables that have an effect. Like what partial are you in, what part of the chord are you playing, etc.

@Kehaulani - I like your thinking!