What was your first horn?

[SMrtn]

My first horn is also my current horn - Yamaha 4335G

Yeah, it's not an elite machine that's for sure, but it still has more to offer.

[marathoner]

Conn Director with the Coprion bell. Didn't think much of it until my new trumpet teacher Frank Lisanti (Chicago ) picked up the horn and made it SING !

[Manuel de los Campos]

From the local wind band first horn was a Schenkelaars alto saxophone, followed by a Schenkelaars trumpet. That was in 1971
In 1982 I bought my own trumpet, a brand new Vincent Bach Stradivarius 180/37
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Technology alone is a poor substitute for experience. (Richard Sachs)

[doclev]

I was 8 years old. My dad brought me a used trumpet he bought for $10 (not an insignificant amount since it was 1944). It was a Marceau--a fancy name but it was the Sears house brand at the time.

[jondrowjf@gmail.com]

First trumpet was a Lyle trumpet. Bought it on craigslist and sold it on craigslist. Then bought a beat up Olds ambassdor. Both are long gone.
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King 603 cornet
Yamaha 2330 cornet
Denis Wick 4 W classic gold cornet mouthpiece
Yamaha 11 e4 cornet mouthpiece
Yamaha 9e cornet mouthpiece
Bach 5 B cornet mouthpiece

[Christian K. Peters]

Hello all,
My dad's late 40's Olds Special. Still have it.
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Christian K. Peters
Schilke Loyalist since 1976

[deleted_user_680e93b]

my first horn was a Getzen Deluxe Tone Balanced Trumpet that my brother bought for me when i was a freshmen in high school, sadly i sold it when i bought my Bach 37 in college, which i also sold a few years later after i quit playing. Wish i had both of them now. here's a vid of the getzen model i had.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY_QFMBiXBw

Have a conn vintage one now and love it, but i'd probably sell it too, to get a Callichio 1s2, or something similar.

tom

[VetPsychWars]

My grandfather's 1949 Buescher 400. Had it restored.

I credit learning on a fantastic pro-caliber horn with my early good results and success in school.

Tom
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1950 Buescher Lightweight 400 Trumpet
1949 Buescher 400 Trumpet
1939 Buescher 400 Cornet
GR65M, GR65 Cor #1

[mafields627]

Yamaha 2320 in 1995. Still use it daily to demo in my Beginning Band classes.

Then came the ubiquitous Bach Strad 180-37ML (which wasn't a great horn until I replaced the leadpipe in college with a Charlie Melk MTV-525 leadpipe and MTV receiver).

Next up is a Teatro, which is a Frankenhorn sold by Bruce Lee and assembled by Eclipse. It has a Kanstul bell and leadpipe with a Getzen valve block. It's a nice, efficient horn.

My last acquisition was a Yamaha Bobby Shew flugel. Love it!

Also thrown in there for a little while was a Bach 25R C trumpet that was a great horn, but I sold it because I didn't do as much C playing as I thought I would.

So yeah, first trumpet....Yamaha 2320.
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--Matt--

No representation is made that the quality of this post is greater than the quality of that of any other poster. Oh, and get a teacher!

[tptptp]

Holton Galaxy 1964. I think my parents paid $250 new. Still have it.
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Craig Mitchell

[so what]

1st was a King Liberty from the late '30s. The one with the square brace.
First horn I bought myself was a '69 Benge 3+, from the local Benge distributor in Pittsburgh, Jerry Callet. Still have both and they both play great.

[spitvalve]

King Cleveland Superior cornet, 1967. Parents paid $170 for it.
First horn I bought myself was a Getzen Eterna Severinsen model in 1975; used the King cornet as a trade-in.
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Bryan Fields
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1991 Bach LR180 ML 37S
1999 Getzen Eterna 700S
1979 Getzen Eterna 895S Flugelhorn
1969 Getzen Capri cornet
Eastlake Benge 4PSP piccolo trumpet
Warburton and Stomvi Flex mouthpieces

[Seymor B Fudd]

[outskiing]

A Holton, student model.
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Est quod est.

[Vin DiBona]

A Blessing student horn.
R. Tomasek

[deanoaks]

I haven't been able to find it in a while, but I started out on a Portland student trumpet. I think brand new it cost about $100.
I believe the color options were silver, blue, red, black, and yellow.

[connicalman]

King 600 rental, replaced after 2 years by a nice Olds Ambassador for 4 years, then a Bach Strad for 30 years.
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kochaavim, csillaagkep, αστερρισμός, konnstelacji, connstellation... ...a.k.a. the 28A!
Other Conns: Victor 5A & 38A, New Wonder & 80A; 'stella 38A; 36A; 'quest 76A...

[dr_trumpet]

[spiker97]

1968 Olds (Fullerton) Ambassador. Kept this one as it was damaged in college, had it repaired back then, just had it restored this past summer (comeback player). Still easy to play and looks and sounds good.
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When the spiker speaks, nobody listens
but everybody reads

When he is playing is another story

[Nikoloas17]

A lightly used Yamaha 2335 student horn that I rented from the local music store, which I now work at, interestingly enough. It was a solid horn, but after I bought my used 1994 Bach Strad 180S43, I sold it to one of my freshman bandmates for super cheap because his old horn was just trashed. I miss it once in awhile as a beater, that horn was easy to play.
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Horns:
1994 Bach Stradivarius 43LR
Lidl Brno Bb Rotary Trumpet
Lidl Brno Bb Rotary Flugelhorn
Benge 5 Piccolo Trumpet
Mouthpieces:
Marcinkiewicz 6/10.5C
Monette B2
Monette B6LVS1
Yamaha 14E4
Yamaha 14F4