Jerome Wiss 6/20 Trumpet

walldaja · Regular Member Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 71

There is a NEW trumpet in town! Has anyone played one of these yet? Sounds like an incredible concept and looks fantastic.

http://jeromewiss.com/en/fabrication-en/bb-trumpet-6-20/
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Turkle · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:30 am Post subject:

Looks like one of those old "compensating" cornets.

I can't imagine trying to keep the pipes in the back of the valve section clean...
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GuillaumeM · New Member Joined: 04 Oct 2016 Posts: 9

Hi Dave,
not really that new....
look at this thread :
https://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=141043

this thread went bad and Jerome had to back off to avoid the kind of toxic discussion which can happen here.
Anyway, Jerome is a true wind luthier and it looks that he knows what he does.
He doesn't seem to be focused on trumpet making only though. Maybe that's why we don't hear a lot of him so far. Even in France, it's kinda of hard to find a review of the trumpets.

walldaja · Regular Member Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 71

I had never heard of Mr Wiss until I received the March 2020 edition of the International Trumpet Guild journal. It contained an article entitled, "The Future of Instrument Making: A Conversation with Craftsman Jerome Wiss" by Andre Bonnici. The article did a nice job of explaining his (Jerome's) dependence on computer modeling and 3d printing in the prototyping of his instruments as well as the advantages of his valve block design.

Later that day I was looking at a new Courtios Creation Paris trombone and it had a mouthpiece he designed on it.

So in a couple of hours I went from not knowing about the man to seeing him / his work in two different venues. And thanks to GuillaumeM I have a third source. Thanks.

I sure hope he and some of his instruments make it to the ITG Conference, would love to see them in person.
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Jupiter 846S Flug Schilke 18F
Shires Q30GR T-bone 5 / 4 CL
Yamaha YBL-421G T-bone 2 CL
Jean Baptist Euphonium Stork 4

homebilly · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 1:55 pm Post subject:

yes! i have played his horns about 3 or 4 years ago. i dug them alot!!!
different and very hip.

as you can see in that other thread you'll see that we successfully ran him off
of TH. i stayed in touch with him for a while after but at the time he told me that he was working on some other stuff but i haven't spoken with him lately and am glad to see that he stayed in the game 'malgré nous'.

i'm in paris at the moment and I'll give him a yell tomorrow to get some juice

stay tuned

ron
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stumac · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:40 pm Post subject:

Based on Ron's review and the youtube videos I contacted Jerome at the beginning of April last year, after some discussion I ordered a 6/20. He hoped for delivery before Christmas which would have been excellent as I had a music camp in January. Jerome was very apologetic when I contacted him at the end of November, he was very busy to finish several other instruments.

As it was the music camp had been cancelled due to severe bushfires in the area.

I received an email last Sunday from him saying he was back into trumpet making and had 7 instruments to finish by the 14th March, mine among them.
Looking forward to receiving it and will write a review. I feel this is the first major change in design of the trumpet in over 120 years.

Regards, Stuart.

walldaja · Regular Member Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 71

I will be looking forward to your review! Thanks.
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Sonare TRC-800, Dennis Wick 1.5C
Blessing Standard, Denis Wick 1.5C
Accent TR959 CDB C tpt Stork XM2 Studio Mstr
Jupiter 846S Flug Schilke 18F
Shires Q30GR T-bone 5 / 4 CL
Yamaha YBL-421G T-bone 2 CL
Jean Baptist Euphonium Stork 4

homebilly · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:52 pm Post subject:

i called and left jérome a message a few days ago but no response as of yet

i.hope to hear from him before i head home on sunday

...stay tuned
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