Sometimes you have to make your own.

The Conn 80A's are great.

@adc said in Favorite Cornet:

Nice. I can't stand to play a new (old) horn until I thoroughly clean and sanitize it.

I can't stand to wait. I play it right out of the box the minute I get it. Then I take it in for cleaning and repairs. I also want to know the before and after of that process.

After:

So you are going to sub with an instrument that sounds okay and you have many mouthpieces that you can choose from. And you are not going to spend more money on anything else. And the time is short. What do you want to hear other than pick the best sounding combination and practice?

I'll just stick with my Toreador. Have fun with the Conn.

Sometimes the planets line up just right between you and the cornet. Mine is a H.N. White Clevelander with the original mouthpiece. I have two of them just to make sure if anything ever happens, I can play the spare while I'm getting the primary fixed.

Good read and a very good site for musicians:

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I spend most of my time playing french horn. Or as we like to call it, horn. Does that qualify as a bigger horn?

As for why there isn't another thread, possibly because players of other horns don't spend all their time talking about it online?

Second favorite cornet in my collection. King Silvertone Long Cornet from the late 30's. And on advice from its former owner, I added a Holton Heim Model 2 mouthpiece and the planets aligned. Great for traditional jazz.

Favorite? Not sure at this moment due to some recent acquisitions. I meant to buy an old Bb made by M. Dupont, Paris. No serial number on it, so I'm not sure when it was made.

As it turns out, the cornet is in the key of C.

Then I added a Bb Conn Wonder from the late 1800's. That showed up and it was in pretty good shape. Just got it back from the repair technician. Plays great.

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So that made a new one in C and Bb. I thought I would also include my Boosey & Hawkes Eb cornet to show the compete set. Pretty much have everything covered now.

Please continue to post these. I absolutely love them. What a gem this one is. I would love to play that cornet.

Much appreciated.

One thing and then I'll go away. When listening to someone improvise, the playing licks thing is obvious and doesn't work for me. Sticking a lick into this or that key is not inventing on the fly. Also, extended chords sound like extended chords and not music to me. Jazz learned in college sounds like jazz learned in college. As in I learned to play along with chords and play the chord notes and nothing sounds like music. Chord progressions sound like chord progressions, not like music. For me, music has a melody, rhythm, movement, a progress, a development and an ending. It goes somewhere, it tells a story. Improv furthers that story and builds on it. If it doesn't it is just noodling around on notes that don't clash with what else is going on. Which is what most stuff for decades has sounded like. And then there is the free stuff. Which doesn't sound like music to me.

Now I near someone say, man, you just don't get it. We are pushing boundaries here. Okay. Push away. And people will sit there nodding like they like it. Do they?

@dale-proctor More photos are up now.

I don't think you'll notice much difference. I've played the Curry BC series for years. When I play a little less open mouthpiece for a while and then go back, I still don't notice anything other than the sound change. Even the Flip Oakes Extreme trumpet mouthpiece with a #11 bore doesn't really feel that different.

But then I'm pretty used to open mouthpieces.

Hate this format. TH is fine. Trombonechat is great. Cornet forum, well, that doesn't exist. Vintage cornet jazz really doesn't exist. Oh well. I'll keep limping along. Oh wait, flugabonechat doesn't exist either. Geez, what a world.

@oldschooleuph said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@richard-iii said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

I just had to dig out my Conn 77A. Sorry no picture. It is a standard configuration for a cornet. The 76A, which replaced the 77A is quite a different design. The tuning slide, I'm guessing, is on the bell tubing? Anybody know of any other Conn cornet with that feature?

There are many many examples of tuning at the bell tail from Pan-American to Puje, including all of the opera-glass tuning Conns (That front slide is for quick change only on those, not tuning). This Martin Imperial is another and even manages to still keep it on the right hand side of the horn rather than the left hand most think of as the back.

Oh my oh my. Gotta start looking for one of those. Yowza!

I just had to dig out my Conn 77A. Sorry no picture. It is a standard configuration for a cornet. The 76A, which replaced the 77A is quite a different design. The tuning slide, I'm guessing, is on the bell tubing? Anybody know of any other Conn cornet with that feature?

@shifty said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

@richard-iii said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

Of course if there were a Cornet Boards, I wouldn't even be here.

Are you a facebook user?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1514385745525221/about

Thanks. Already a member. Just a little light in the wilderness for cornet lovers.

@kehaulani said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

@richard-iii said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:
And one of the reasons there isn't more interest in this thread is that most people aren't interested in things other than trumpets on these sites.

Funny thing to find on a trumpet forum.

Good point. So why even have a cornet and flugelhorn category?

Of course if there were a Cornet Boards, I wouldn't even be here.

I just got a Blessing marching baritone. Much less expensive than the flugabone because it doesn't say flugeabone. Same configuration. Nice sound that can be baritone like or trombone like. Sort of like a flugelhorn with more smoke and depth.

And one of the reasons there isn't more interest in this thread is that most people aren't interested in things other than trumpets on these sites.