Posts made by Richard III

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

@Richard-III Is that a king 1122 marching french horn? I played on a conn 134e during marching season when not on cornet. I always had trouble with the lyre holder's placement, do you have that problem?

Well, you named the horn. Yes it is. I never marched with it so have never tried it with a lyre. In my day, back in the early 70's, our mellophones were two valve things in G. If I remember correctly. And we had everything memorized. Drum and Bugle Corps. The corps, now defunct was the Knight Raiders.

This is what I play in my small jazz group. Every time I bring it out, people come up and ask what it is. No one has ever guessed right.

Yup. You got it.

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?

Similar story here. Same family history and about the same age. Retirement means much more time to practice (finally) and play. Picking up new skills and instruments in Bb, Eb and F has got to help.

@Kujo20 said in Favorite Cornet:

I haven’t played a huge number of different cornets (and zero high end modern makes)...mostly vintage horns.

Out of those, my favorite was a gold plated Conn 84A from 1922. I deeply regret selling that horn.

There's one on Ebay right now. It's the only gold plated 84A I've ever seen. So tempting.

The Conn 80A's are great.

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.