View previous topic :: View next topic |
Which brand do you prefer for professional trumpets? |
Yamaha |
|
15% |
[ 18 ] |
Bach |
|
22% |
[ 27 ] |
Jupiter |
|
1% |
[ 2 ] |
Conn |
|
1% |
[ 2 ] |
Other |
|
59% |
[ 71 ] |
|
Total Votes : 120 |
|
Author |
Message |
Luka New Member
Joined: 20 Jun 2018 Posts: 1
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:23 am Post subject: |
|
|
Schilke! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
USCGRick Regular Member
Joined: 15 Dec 2017 Posts: 20 Location: Tampa, FL
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 2:38 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Harrelson for custom. Getzen for retail. _________________ USCG Rick
Harrelson Bb VPS Summit One
Harrelson C VPS Summit |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Trombacan Veteran Member
Joined: 30 Nov 2009 Posts: 102 Location: Canada
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 2:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yamaha
Also really enjoying playing my Larson GFT trumpets _________________ "It's simple, it just isn't easy" - VC |
|
Back to top |
|
|
TKSop Heavyweight Member
Joined: 23 Feb 2014 Posts: 1719 Location: UK
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 2:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Eclipse.
Nothing else I've played has felt quite so "right" to me - that and I can go to the man himself whenever I like and know I'd come away with what I really want. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Rod Haney Heavyweight Member
Joined: 22 Aug 2015 Posts: 937
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 3:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Eclipse - best by far Ive played
Rod |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Betelgeuse215 Veteran Member
Joined: 20 May 2015 Posts: 186
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:05 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Jean Baptiste |
|
Back to top |
|
|
khedger Heavyweight Member
Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 754 Location: Cambridge, MA
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Benge
Adams
Getzen
Kanstul |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Ed Kennedy Heavyweight Member
Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 3187
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Callet (Jazz) my new fave. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
intrepidpooch Heavyweight Member
Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 757 Location: Jacksonville, FL
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
jhatpro Heavyweight Member
Joined: 17 Mar 2002 Posts: 10202 Location: The Land Beyond O'Hare
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Scodwell _________________ Jim Hatfield
"The notes are there - find them.” Mingus
2021 Martinus Geelan Custom
2005 Bach 180-72R
1965 Getzen Eterna Severinsen
1946 Conn Victor
1998 Scodwell flugel
1986 Bach 181 cornet
1954 Conn 80A cornet
2002 Getzen bugle |
|
Back to top |
|
|
blbaumgarn Heavyweight Member
Joined: 26 Jul 2017 Posts: 705
|
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:08 pm Post subject: favorite pro trumpet brands |
|
|
An almost dangerous topic with a bunch of horn junkies. There are presently so many good to great ones. What works for the individual is the ultimate test. The best I ever played was a Benge, then Schilke. Both of them are all around horns so they fit in wherever. I fit into the 60% that used other as my favorite pic. Everyone else is right, too. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lee Adams Veteran Member
Joined: 06 Nov 2001 Posts: 222 Location: Atlanta, Ga
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
OldSchoolEuph Heavyweight Member
Joined: 07 Apr 2012 Posts: 2426
|
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:58 am Post subject: |
|
|
There was a post earlier that highlights the flaw in this question (that being to expect everything from a brand to be at the same level, rather than recognizing the unique 3-way match of player, horn and desired sound that make for a "great horn" in someone's experience). The post listed "Selmer and Leblanc" - and my immediate reaction of course is "you mean Selmer and Courtois" since Courtois made all those great Leblanc trumpets - of course they also made all those decent, but not pro, Holton Collegiates.
Yamaha, Bach, CarolBrass and to an extent Kanstul all offer a very wide variety of intended level/options/sounds. If one really works for you, chances are many others really wont. These companies are not narrowly focused like Getzen or Benge was, such that you can have one opinion regarding all their horns. Schilke offers two completely different playing experiences between B and S model lines - so which do you base your opinion of them on? Its flawed thinking to look to a brand name, especially if one lumps in vintage with current (the prior post about Conn being case in point). _________________ Ron Berndt
www.trumpet-history.com
2017 Austin Winds Stage 466
1962 Mt. Vernon Bach 43
1954 Holton 49 Stratodyne
1927 Conn 22B
1957 Holton 27 cornet
1985 Yamaha YEP-621
1975 Yamaha YEP-321 Custom
1965 Besson Baritone
1975 Olds Recording R-20 |
|
Back to top |
|
|
tvknight415 Veteran Member
Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 132 Location: WI
|
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:19 am Post subject: |
|
|
Other: Getzen |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Rapier232 Heavyweight Member
Joined: 16 Aug 2011 Posts: 1320 Location: Twixt the Moor and the Sea, UK
|
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:54 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Smith-Watkins. _________________ "Nearly as good as I need to be. Not nearly as good as I want to be".
Smith-Watkins Bb
Will Spencer Bb
Eclipse Flugel
Smith Watkins K2 Cornet
JP152 C Trumpet
Besson Bugle |
|
Back to top |
|
|
chuck in ny Heavyweight Member
Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 3597 Location: New York
|
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:57 pm Post subject: |
|
|
shofarguy wrote: | My favorite brand of professional trumpet/flugelhorn/cornet is, as everyone who has been on TH for awhile expects, Flip Oakes Wild Thing.
Here are the reasons:
1) I have never played any individual instrument, at his shop or in the field, that was not an outstanding player. The only example I can cite was Rex Merriweather's very early trumpet that had not received its Total Enhancement. That was done for free when Rex brought it down to Flip.
2) All of Flip's designs play to his liking, so it doesn't matter which instrument you buy, if you like one, you will like them all.
In other words, if you have sampled a Wild Thing instrument somewhere and liked it, you can buy any new instrument without trying it first and be confident you are going to like it just as much or more.
3) Flip's customer service is as legendary as his instruments. If you do have a problem (even buyers of used WT instruments will tell you) with one of his instruments, Flip is committed to putting it right. I did have an email conversation with one disgruntled customer, but that customer would only converse using a pseudonym and never actually did anything either Flip or I recommended to get his issues (used horn purchase) resolved. In my thinking, that is one misrepresentation in an otherwise spotless record of customer satisfaction.
4) The sound of his instruments trumps all others, in my opinion. It doesn't matter what sound a player is after, it can be accomplished with a Wild Thing and it will be better than what is achieved with something else. This point can be argued, ad infinitum, but that is the case with virtually every brand. The fact that WT players cite sound almost universally as the top characteristic they love about playing their instrument is significant. |
yeah. you could do a lot worse.
that is my choice and staying with the original brass instrument. it's worthy to note that there seem to be more great horns available now than at any other time so there are about a dozen brands that i would be thrilled to own. i can't forget the cornball years of everyone wishing they had a mt. vernon bach.
insofar as the WT get one while they are available. there are actually very few WT trumpets and flugels that have been made. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Steve A Heavyweight Member
Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1799 Location: Toronto, Canada
|
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I'm not interested in another round of Wild Thing argument - I'm sure they're great instruments, and I'm sure I'm not going change any minds, even if I wanted to, but I would just say that any of these attempts at a knock-down argument fall flat, IMO.
For the price of a Wild Thing (which is not unreasonable!), you could quite easily try a half dozen new Bachs, pick your favourite, have Jim Becker, or another respected tech work their magic on it, and come out with an instrument that satisfies all these criteria for the same money, or less. (And likely easier resale if desired, and less work to find and try.)
People who like Flip's designs like how they play and sound. People who don't, and yes, they exist, don't like how they play, or sound. There are lots of Bach aficionados who would legitimately make exactly the same argument as #4 in this list.
We all have our preferences, which is great. Trying to argue that one is necessarily objectively better than another is wrong, and a waste of everyone's time. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Dennis78 Heavyweight Member
Joined: 28 Feb 2015 Posts: 673 Location: Cincinnati
|
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
What exactly is the qualifications for a professional level instrument?
The two in my signature are billed as professional models and I can agree but....
The Cecilio has a bad reputation and I wouldn’t put it on the same level as a Strad but it’s definitely a step or two above say a Holton Collegiate or a Bach tr200
The Brasspire is definitely a lot closer to the respected brand pro models but there are some deficiencies in craftsmanship _________________ a few different ones |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|