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Dale Proctor Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 7:44 am Post subject: Official Cool Cornet Picture Thread |
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Some of us have a serious appreciation for cornets, and a few even prefer to play cornet over trumpet!
How about a thread for your cornet pics...no trumpets, flugels, etc.
The older and/or cooler, the better. Lots of different, interesting tubing configurations were available over the years, as well as some beautiful aesthetics. Post a little info along with the picture(s).
Of course, I'll start, but slowly...
1969 Conn 15A Director
_________________ "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away ." - Sir Thomas Beecham
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veery715 Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:14 am Post subject: |
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1921 York Professional - Rich Ita rebuild w/added thumb saddle.
_________________ veery715
Hear me sing!: https://youtu.be/vtJ14MV64WY
Playing trumpet - the healthy way to blow your brains out.
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ConnArtist Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:18 am Post subject: |
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Nice idea!
Be on the lookout for a certain Onyx, and one dented up red-head with the best singing voice ever. _________________ "Stomvi" PhrankenPhlugel w/ Blessing copper bell
1958 Conn 18A cornet
1962 Conn 9A cornet (yes, the Unicorn )
Reynolds Onyx cornet
c. 1955? Besson 10-10 trumpet
1939 Martin Imperial Handcraft “Model 37”
1986 Bach Strad 37 ML |
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Nuck81 Veteran Member
Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Posts: 154 Location: Western Kentucky
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:35 am Post subject: |
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Not mine, but the prettiest cornet I've come across.
"1891 C.G. Conn Wonder "Solo Model" cornet. Resoration completed in late 2009. The present owner received it in the late 1930s when he was a boy from his Grand-Father (the original owner). Though it took a while to properly restore, the final results were worth the effort. Shown here with its original mouth-pieces, mute and C-slide assembly."
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VetPsychWars Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:25 am Post subject: |
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1955 Buescher 400. Approximately the last year of manufacture, essentially unchanged since its introduction about 1937.
Pretty, no?
Tom
_________________ 1950 Buescher Lightweight 400 Trumpet
1949 Buescher 400 Trumpet
1939 Buescher 400 Cornet
GR65M, GR65 Cor #1 |
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shofarguy Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, guys.
I have no "Diva" to post pictures of at this time.
Brian _________________ Brian A. Douglas
Flip Oakes Wild Thing Bb Trumpet in copper
Flip Oakes Wild Thing Flugelhorn in copper
There is one reason that I practice: to be ready at the downbeat when the final trumpet sounds. |
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Dale Proctor Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:50 am Post subject: |
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shofarguy wrote: | Sorry, guys.
I have no "Diva" to post pictures of at this time.
Brian |
Looks like you need a Wild Thing cornet to comlplete the set... _________________ "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away ." - Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Dale Proctor Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Nuck81 wrote: | Not mine, but the prettiest cornet I've come across.... |
I'll bet it looks better now than when it was new! _________________ "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away ." - Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Indofunk Heavyweight Member
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tommy t. Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Well, the horn isn't all that special, but this is me with my first new horn, 1954 Conn Victor Cornet:
Tommy T. _________________ Actually, I hate music. I just do this for the money. |
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tommy t. Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:42 am Post subject: |
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And this is the Wedgwood, posing as an ad for Facet Mutes and Rich Willey's exercise books:
Tommy T. _________________ Actually, I hate music. I just do this for the money. |
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tommy t. Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:50 am Post subject: |
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And, one more, an early '60s Conn Director Cornet in a trapper's cabin in the Yukon Territory, someplace upstream of Dawson City. That book is the Brownie transcriptions -- the only music I had with me for over two months -- I learned a lot.
Tommy T. _________________ Actually, I hate music. I just do this for the money. |
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Dale Proctor Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:59 am Post subject: |
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I'll throw in another one, a '49 Olds Ambassador I had customized...bell bent into a shepherd's crook, and the 3rd valve slide reversed so it could be moved with the finger ring.
_________________ "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away ." - Sir Thomas Beecham |
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shofarguy Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, Flip sent me this link to his "Gold Dig 'er" to tease...uh, encourage me to look forward to the day I can get one.
http://www.flipoakes.com/review_gold_short_cornet.htm
Brian _________________ Brian A. Douglas
Flip Oakes Wild Thing Bb Trumpet in copper
Flip Oakes Wild Thing Flugelhorn in copper
There is one reason that I practice: to be ready at the downbeat when the final trumpet sounds. |
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Dale Proctor Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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The guy who sits next to me in brass band plays one of those, gold plated, of course... _________________ "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away ." - Sir Thomas Beecham |
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ChopsGone Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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OK, you just made me do it, although this has been posted before (plus there have been some magnificent additions to the cornet collection since this was taken):
I don't really have to post pictures of that fully-engraved gold-plated Besson again, do I? _________________ Vintage Olds & Reynolds & Selmers galore
Aubertins, Bessons, Calicchios, Courtois, Wild Things, Marcinkiewicz, Ogilbee Thumpet, DeNicola Puje, Kanstuls.... |
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Dale Proctor Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Yea, baby! Post whatever else you have, but tell us what they are, like that Olds A-6 I spy in your group shot... _________________ "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away ." - Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Zman Heavyweight Member
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ConnArtist Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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tommy t. wrote: | And this is the Wedgwood, posing as an ad for Facet Mutes and Rich Willey's exercise books:
Tommy T. |
Not to hijack too hard... but are those Facets merely straight mutes that I would be terrified to bump/drop (i.e. use), or do they actually supply some unique timbre? _________________ "Stomvi" PhrankenPhlugel w/ Blessing copper bell
1958 Conn 18A cornet
1962 Conn 9A cornet (yes, the Unicorn )
Reynolds Onyx cornet
c. 1955? Besson 10-10 trumpet
1939 Martin Imperial Handcraft “Model 37”
1986 Bach Strad 37 ML |
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Nuck81 Veteran Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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ChopsGone wrote: | OK, you just made me do it, although this has been posted before (plus there have been some magnificent additions to the cornet collection since this was taken):
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Will you adopt me so I can inherit some of these? |
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