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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:28 pm    Post subject: What is the main modern orchestral C trumpet? Reply with quote

Hey Friends

I apologize if this has already been asked before, I tried combing through the search results but didn't find anything.

What is the current main orchestral C trumpet out there in major orchestras?

From what I've learned, Bud developed the modern orchestral sound with a 229 large bore Bach C, I could be totally wrong there.

From there I heard Phil Smith carry on that tradition, and over the years, I've seen a ton of folks with 229 Bach C horns with an H pipe in orchestras.

But more recently, I see some orchestral trumpet players with Yamahas, almost equally to the amount of Bachs I see today.

Are these Xenos taking over as the main orchestral trumpet these days?

I only ask because as a subbing player myself, I want to make sure I'm set up to match tone whenever I'm called to sub. In college I found success on a vintage Getzen Eterna large bore C horn, but in more recent years, I'm finding it hard to match my section mates with that horn. The Bachs seem to have such a standardized orchestral sound that is tough to replicate.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bach dominated the landscape for decades but the Artist model Chicago and NY Yamahas are now played in: NY, Boston, Chicago, LA just to name some of the top tier orchestras. They are a similar style horn to the Bach but they are rapidly becoming one of the horns of choice in the orchestral world.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

trompette229 wrote:
Bach dominated the landscape for decades but the Artist model Chicago and NY Yamahas are now played in: NY, Boston, Chicago, LA just to name some of the top tier orchestras. They are a similar style horn to the Bach but they are rapidly becoming one of the horns of choice in the orchestral world.


That's what I thought. I recently attended a SF Symphony concert and it was incredible, but afterwards as I looked into the section, I noticed some Yamahas.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would agree that the Yamaha Artist models are fast becoming, if they aren't already, the most common horn of choice these days - though I can't speak for outside the US as well. Certainly there are still plenty of people winning and keeping jobs with Bach or others, but overall I think the Yamahas are the "safe" choice.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It depends on where you are working, and what sort of players you are working with.

As an example - 7 players (mostly no longer working full time in orchestras) saw:
New York Bach 7/7
Early Elkhart Bach 37
Early Jupiter 1600
Bach 43/25R
Bach belled frankenhorn
Mt Vernon Bach 37
Kanstul 1500A

The blend was as good as you can want, judging from the video recording I heard.

Mainstream horn and have the section our head. Better still listen and match as you go. With that, your Getzen may just do the trick…
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sell that Getzen to me, I allways wanted one but over here they are very very rare.

I play Antoine Courtois Delmotte C trumpet, never had any issue with blending with others: YOU are the instrument
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

irith wrote:
I would agree that the Yamaha Artist models are fast becoming, if they aren't already, the most common horn of choice these days - though I can't speak for outside the US as well. Certainly there are still plenty of people winning and keeping jobs with Bach or others, but overall I think the Yamahas are the "safe" choice.


While I have endorsed Yamaha since the mid-70s, I have to disagree. When I look at who is playing what, you can't rule out Schilke. While shrinking, they still have a chunk of that market. By far surpassing that is indeed Yamaha, but in these orchestral Cs, Bach 229 variants still hold the lead by a nose.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2022 8:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even though I don’t own any of their horns, there are a decent number of orch trumpet players using Shires that come to mind
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2022 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chicago has a mix of horns.
Estaban Batallon is on Herseth's Bach.
John Hagstrom is still on the Yamaha.
Mark Ridenour plays a Powell. (I believe he still does, anyway)
Tage Larson still plays a Yamaha.

There are rumors I've heard, but they are just rumors.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2022 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vin DiBona wrote:
Chicago has a mix of horns.
Estaban Batallon is on Herseth's Bach.
John Hagstrom is still on the Yamaha.
Mark Ridenour plays a Powell. (I believe he still does, anyway)
Tage Larson still plays a Yamaha.

There are rumors I've heard, but they are just rumors.

R. Tomasek


This jumped-out at me as having an inaccuracy, so I contacted John Hagstrom. He sent me this in reply to post here to correct the record:

“The Bach C I’m playing on was built in 1953 and played originally in the CSO by one of my predecessors, Rudy Nashan, who was 2nd trumpet from 1950 until 1961. It’s a perfect match for Bud’s 1955 Mt. Vernon, and this pair of C trumpets are the instruments heard on most of the CSO/RCA recordings that were made under Fritz Reiner. The Yamaha is a fine instrument, and I gave away tons of my time to help develop it beginning in 2001. Even so, these particular two Bach C trumpets are superior, especially as a pair in companionship within the sound of the whole orchestra.”

So that's 2 Bachs.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The rumor was true. Someone told me he was on a Bach, but I could not confirm.
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