How many trumpets do you have

[Halflip]

[cbtj51]

[Aix]

• Getzen Eterna Severinsen (SK2010)
  
• Bach Strad 72G
  
• Bach Strad 25 L
  
• King Silver Flair
  
  
• Getzen Super Deluxe cornet
  
• A. Courtois flugel

So, about 6.

Trying to find a Wild Thing, but damn near impossible on this side of the pond, in Europe..

[Subtropical and Subpar]

The eight in my signature, although I'm always looking for reasons/excuses to get more... surely I need a Conn 10A or 28A, and maybe a new Bach or Shires, and maybe...
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1932 King Silvertone cornet
1936 King Liberty No. 2 trumpet
1958 Reynolds Contempora 44-M "Renascence" C
1962 Reynolds Argenta LB trumpet
1965 Conn 38A
1995 Bach LR18072
2003 Kanstul 991
2011 Schilke P5-4 B/G
2021 Manchester Brass flugel

[Brassnose]

Update

Those in the sig plus:

Hüttl Silver Colibri 69
Olds Studio cornet
Yamaha 634
Yamaha 4335G
pTrumpet yellow gifted to me a while back

Blessing Super Artist (borrowed from a colleague, will have to return it soon )
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2019 Martin Schmidt eXcellence
1992 Bach 43GH/43
1989 Kühnl & Hoyer Model 15 flugel
1980/2023 Custom Blessing Scholastic C 😎
1977 Conn 6B
1951 Buescher 400 Lightweight
AR Resonance, Frate, Klier

[Brassnose]

Hey Aix, check these out:

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/kanstul-flip-oakes-wild-thing-trompete-trumpet-silber/2379978397-74-7089?utm_source=copyToPasteboard&utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_medium=social&utm_content=app_ios

This is a seller with a good reputation in Germany. The one below is in the US but would probably ship to Europe.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364115615095
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2019 Martin Schmidt eXcellence
1992 Bach 43GH/43
1989 Kühnl & Hoyer Model 15 flugel
1980/2023 Custom Blessing Scholastic C 😎
1977 Conn 6B
1951 Buescher 400 Lightweight
AR Resonance, Frate, Klier

[Brassnose]

Update to my update The signature is the complete list. Sold or am selling the rest.

The Buescher and Hüttl will need more play time to decide on a sale (or not). The rest are keepers.

Anyone else care to update (Christmas coming up and all that … ).
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2019 Martin Schmidt eXcellence
1992 Bach 43GH/43
1989 Kühnl & Hoyer Model 15 flugel
1980/2023 Custom Blessing Scholastic C 😎
1977 Conn 6B
1951 Buescher 400 Lightweight
AR Resonance, Frate, Klier

[giakara]

Since my collection is extended i will update my post

Trumpets
Getzen Canadian brass Bb 1995
Getzen Eterna C 
Getzen Capri Bb
Lawler TL6-1A Geneva Florida Bb #707 2004
Lawler TL5-1A Geneva Florida Bb #661 2003
Lawler TL5-1A Flat creek  Bb 2015
Carol mini pocket Bb 2018
Jupiter pocket Bb 2011
Conn 61B super Connstellation  1975
Thibouville-Lamy C/Bb hot jazz queen 1931
Couesnon C/Bb peashooter  1951
Selmer Paris 24B  Bb 1956
Selmer Paris 3 valve piccolo  Bb/A 1971?
King master Bb 1917
Martin Indiana  1952
O Hofmann Vern rotary Bb 1944


Cornets
Getzen Eterna 850 LB 1998
Willson International
Conn constellation 38A XLB 1968
Conn 81A Victor new wonder XLB 1928
Selmer Paris shepherd crook MB 1948
French Besson Brevette 1884


Flugelhorns
Yamaha YFL 731 1972
MPT Bohemia solist Bb German rotary


Regards
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Lawler TL5-1A Bb 2015
Lawler TL6-1A Bb 2004
Lawler TL5-1A Bb 2003
Getzen eterna 910 C
Getzen eterna 850 cornet
Selmer Paris 3 valve picc
Yamaha 731 flugel
Carol mini pocket
Reeves/Purviance mpcs

[Manuel de los Campos]

I recently swapped my Besson Academy (too much dark sounding to me) for a fantastic sounding and easy playing Hirshbrünner Crown. Unfortunately the low Eb is way to low so after all the ease of playing faded a little...
When I have time I'll send her to Mark Geelen, see if he can fix the problem

For the rest no changes; 2 x Getzen Eterna, Courtois Delmotte C, Conn NYS 1924, Conn Director and a Chineese Melody Maker in Zürich at home of my wifes family.

Oh, and a Schenkelaars Prestige flugelhorn but hey, that is not a trumpet
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Technology alone is a poor substitute for experience. (Richard Sachs)

[Brassnose]

Is the Hirsbrunner a Sumiswald or an Aarau instrument? If Sumiswald, I’d like to hear more about it - my family originally is from the town and off and on I have pondered their instruments for nostalgic reasons but never actually found one in playable condition.
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2019 Martin Schmidt eXcellence
1992 Bach 43GH/43
1989 Kühnl & Hoyer Model 15 flugel
1980/2023 Custom Blessing Scholastic C 😎
1977 Conn 6B
1951 Buescher 400 Lightweight
AR Resonance, Frate, Klier

[Manuel de los Campos]

[Brassnose]

Thanks! I hope you can get the Eb fixed on yours.
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2019 Martin Schmidt eXcellence
1992 Bach 43GH/43
1989 Kühnl & Hoyer Model 15 flugel
1980/2023 Custom Blessing Scholastic C 😎
1977 Conn 6B
1951 Buescher 400 Lightweight
AR Resonance, Frate, Klier

[Dayton]

Bb Trumpets
Bach 19043
Getzen 900DLX

C Trumpet
Bach C190L229

Bb Cornet
Getzen 800DLX

Flugelhorn
Van Laar B1

Bb Piccolo Trumpet
Getzen 940 Eterna

[kehaulani]

A/B-ing two trumpets. When I make my choice. the other one's gone. Tired of this Holy Grail thing.
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"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird

Yamaha 8310Z Bobby Shew trumpet
Benge 3X Trumpet
Benge 3X Cornet
Adams F-1 Flghn

[Halflip]

[RandyTX]

If you ask about how many cornets (yes, I have an addiction to unusual wraps and cool old fashioned engraving when it comes to them), I'd have to get back to you in a few days, after doing an inventory (when the wife isn't around to see them all taken out of the cases at the same time and truly understand the magnitude of my addiction.)

For trumpets, the list is notably shorter.

Bach 37 - owned since a sophomore in high school, not used much anymore.

Bach Philly C - tweaked by Becker, more amazing horn now, though already the pick of the litter when I bought it.

Bach 'longbell' Eb/D - slighyly opened up by Charlie Melk, in what he says is a fairly common tweak to the bore on the leadpipe end. /shrug. It's a nice horn, and sounds more like a trumpet than a Schilke Eb, imo anyway. Not ideal for some concerto stuff where a lighter sound is desired, but playing it in a section, it blends far better with larger trumpets.

Jupiter 1600i 'roger ingram horn' (before they started calling them all X.O. Brass I think, but basically the same horn.) Played it for quite a few years, mainly for commercial/big band sort of work, until I got it's replacement, below. Relegated to the 'emergency backup' position now.

Yamaha 'commercial' trumpet 6335RC (not like the other 6335 variants, no idea why Yamaha reuses model numbers for radically different instruments) - hard to get in the US, designed somewhere in the EU, Germany, I think... fantastic horn, best even scale I've ever encountered, and a joy to play. It's supposedly a 'commercial' horn, but I've used even in church and orchestral settings and never had a complaint that it was too bright (with an appropirate mouthpiece choice, obv.) The one I should probably own two of, just in case something ever happens to this one. Absolute favorite instrument I own, at least if you don't count cornets.

Schilke P7-4 picc - usually played with a Reeves A adapter in the Bb pipe, which seems to work better for pitch tendencies than the stock A pipe, a trick I learned from the current principal of a nearby orchestra.
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"Music is like candy, you throw the (w)rappers away."

[Halflip]

Six months ago, I would have said that my trumpet numbers haven't changed since 2018 (see my post on page 3 of this thread), and in fact that my collecting days were over, but then THIS happened:







I was perusing eBay listings and, almost for laughs, submitted a search that had been returning zero results for over 25 years: "Conn 12B Coprion Special". Imagine my shock and delight when a live auction popped up!

(Prior to that moment, and based on information from "The Conn Loyalist" regarding the rarity of this horn, I was so convinced that I'd never find one that I actually had a regular 12B modified into sort of a 'tribute Coprion Special' as part of its restoration -- the valve block and parts of the leaderpipe were nickel-plated, and Sherry Huntley of Artistic Engraving extended the bell engraving with an angular art deco design.)

Long story short, I won the horn. It has already received a valve rebuild at the capable hands of Mark Metzler, and it now plays remarkably well. It will play even better once it is fully restored by Charlie Melk (Charlie is so busy that he will not be able to take the horn until the middle of next year, but it will be worth the wait). When the work is completed, I will post pictures on the "Trumpet Eye Candy part 2" thread.

The seller of this horn resides in Tehachapi, California, former site of a women's prison referenced in a number of film noir epics. I am tempted to nickname my new horn after one of the femme fatales therein for whom the women's prison in Tehachapi might have been a likely destination; I am thinking "Brigid" (O'Shaughnessy -- "The Maltese Falcon") or "Phyllis" (Dietrichson -- "Double Indemnity").

Maybe I have too much time on my hands . . .
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"He that plays the King shall be welcome . . . " (Hamlet Act II, Scene 2, Line 1416)

"He had no concept of the instrument. He was blowing into it." -- Virgil Starkwell's cello teacher in "Take the Money and Run"

[Dale Proctor]

[kurth83]

Mostly Schilke (I love all things Schilke, yes I do).

The ones I use regularly:

Schilke X4 - The big symphonic Bb beastie.
Schilke CX4 (with CX tuning slide), the big symphonic C.
Schilke B6 - my little "chamber/church horn" in Bb
Schilke C6 - my little "chamber/church horn" in C, for stuff like Handel's Messiah - I play second part in our orch.

Rarely used any more:
Schilke S22HD and S22CHD - replaced by the X twins.
Schilke P5-4BG - rarely cuz I can't play "up there" any more.

Hated and despised (no comments as to why, although it might possibly have something to do with the valves...):
Shires AF
Shires 4F

Loved and will be kept on the shelf forever:
CG Selmer Bb - (only the X4 has ever outplayed it), I studied with Claude so this has major sentimental value.
Kanstul D/Eb - a wonderful symphonic D/Eb, I just don't need it very often.

[Bryant Jordan]

Horns I currently have:

Bb:

- 1958 Bach Strad Mt. Vernon Medium Bore with a 37 bell and 25 lead pipe. Completely original and plays super well. I use it for everything, paired with my Mt. Vernon 3C. Definitely my favorite horn. Check it out:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0f_4MmERDypLHDAsW2goittj2yZHxpn

- 1966 Olds Recording: Great horn and I’ve always wanted one so I bought it.

- 1940 King Cleveland 600

C:

- Early 2000’s Bach Strad 239 G Large Bore. Plays great.

Flugel:

- 1920 Couesnon, all original.

Cornet:

- 1914 J.W. York and Sons Perfect Tone with gold wash bell…plays great.