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oj
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 Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:16 am Post subject: Mendez playing a Cornet. |
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In the motion picture Cowboy from 1958, Rafael Medez can be seen in a scene at the end of the movie. He is standing in a bar playing a sheperd crook cornet, when Jack Lemmon enters.
What type of cornet is it?
Was there an Olds Mendez Cornet, perhaps?
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SHS_Trumpet
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:25 am Post subject: Mendez cornet... |
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There was a mendez cornet but it looked exactly like the trumpet. The only visible difference being the bracing, If I remember correctly.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject: Mendez |
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The cornet was an antique, not a Mendez model cornet. I don't know the brand. It was not in his collection of instruments when we moved everything to the Rafael Mendez Library at Arizona State University. Perhaps he borrowed it. Might have even been a stage prop. I know that several studios have collections of old instruments for period movies.
In the RML, we still have his hand written music for this soundtrack. It contains parts of several of his solos. Obviously, he is faking it in the movie. He recorded it separately.
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