Dillon 3 Valve Piccolo Trumpet

dmcgee414 · Regular Member Joined: 29 Jun 2016 Posts: 13

Quick question - does Dillon make a 3 valve piccolo trumpet? Somebody is trying to sell me one but on Dillons website they only have a 4 valve pic and a rotary pic. Did they stop making the 3 valve?

If anybody has played or tried a 3 valve pic out from them, was it any good?

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cheiden · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:11 am Post subject:

The only 3-valve model I can think of would be the 3-piston plus rotary where someone replaced the 3rd slide with rotor for one without the rotor.
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crose · Veteran Member Joined: 01 Sep 2010 Posts: 188

Yes, I own one

3 valve plus rotor and an extra 3rd slide if you want to remove the rotor

Most of them came with a Blackburn pipe - I bought an early one and added the pipe later. It helped the horn a lot as did a short shank mpc or a cornet mpc with an adaptor. Removing the 3rd valve bottom cap also helped - don't know why, but it made low C speak better.

Works well for a starter or occasional use horn. Not a Schilke, but usable short model horn for those of us that don't have the $$ to sink onto a horn to only use a few times a year. Mine has paid for it's self..........

The Blackburn pipe is a big deal. If it does not come with one call Dillion Music and make sure you can get one.

dmcgee414 · Regular Member Joined: 29 Jun 2016 Posts: 13

Great good to know. I just bought one online for $300 and was just making sure I wasn't getting scammed. Hopefully it turns out to be a good deal.

cheiden · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:29 am Post subject:

I once saw a 3-valve Yamaha for sale and briefly looked into buying the 3rd slide with rotor and was told that assembly was very costly. I wonder if someone bought a Dillon 3+1 and sold off the rotor slide to recoup a good fraction of the price of the entire horn.
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"I'm an engineer, which means I think I know a whole bunch of stuff I really don't."
Charles J Heiden/So Cal
Bach Strad 180ML43*/43 Bb/Yamaha 731 Flugel/Benge 1X C/Kanstul 920 Picc/Conn 80A Cornet
Bach 3C rim on 1.5C underpart