Favorite Trumpet you own?

Amorsman · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:02 am Post subject:

While I'm tempted to say my Olds Recording, I actually like my wife's Getzen Severinsen better. Can't beat the Getzen valves.

JonathanM · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 12:02 pm Post subject:

I’ve had some great horns, but I just got a newish Puje American Belle and I can’t hardly set it down.

I can’t remember playing a horn that was as much sheer fun. Open blow, big bell... it’s gonna wear me out. Kudos to Brent Peters for putting out such a magnificent instrument.
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Jonathan Milam
Trumpets: 18043B, 18043*, 18043 Sterling Silver +, 18037 SterlingSilver+, Benge 4x, Olds: '34 Symphony, '47 Super, '52 Recording
Flugle: Strad 182
Puje: American Belle
Cornet: Olds Recording & Super

cutemute · Regular Member Joined: 21 Jan 2021 Posts: 37

Newbie here. Hi all. I guess this thread is as good as any to dive in and get started on TH. I love my Chinese trumpets. Pretty much all of them. Always looking and buying more. I've been searching for a Chinese flugel for quite some time.

Ed Kennedy · Heavyweight Member Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 3187

My '72 Getzen Severinson.

RETrumpet · Veteran Member Joined: 26 Jan 2021 Posts: 210

My King 2070SGX. I first tried one at NAMM when I was a kid,. I played everything there and kept going back to that horn. Each year I'd go back and it would still be that horn above all others.

When I got into a performing arts high school, I got one for my birthday. Everything about that horn feels right to me. Except no one else has one and it doesn't blend well in the sections I play in.

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Bb: FrankenBach, '72 Committee, Conn 22B, King 2070SGX
C: Bach 229-MK slide/pipe, Bach 226 with YTR-9445(2) pipe
D/Eb: Bach 239 with YTR-9636 pipe
Picc: Stomvi Master, Couesnon Monopole
Cornet: Schilke A2C, '23 Buescher
Flugel: Scodwell Prototype

dstpt · Heavyweight Member Joined: 14 Dec 2005 Posts: 1283

2020 Eclipse Enigma "CLS" MYL (medium yellow brass lightweight) bell with...
-MAW valve block and...
-trigger to tuning slide, which I have on many of my horns for micro-tuning (horn changes, mute changes, mpc changes, organ stop changes in pitch level, et al.).

This build is ideal for me with my 4O leadpipe, but periodically, I switch to others that I own: 4T, 2T, O, CL, 2O, 6O, 8O, 10O.

CLS = Changeable Leadpipe System
T = Tight
O = Open
CL = Changeable Leadpipe

lipshurt · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 4:44 pm Post subject:

i have and have had a fair amount of horns, all the stuff everyone else has, but right now, my best playing horn is a 1970 selmer DeVille. Better than my Xeno, selmers, etc. Great sound, stability, response, and pitch. Vibe is Like a K-modified but way better. Feels like a xeno but better note fronts.

For hard commercial gigs i still cant beat my best connstellation 36b. For the long haul it cant be beat. i have a few 36B's and two of them are great. i like the 36 a lot more than the 38b for actual gigs.
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dershem · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:38 pm Post subject:

One of these:

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Marcinkiewicz Rembrandt flugel, Benge 8Z cornet, King 2B, Bach 36, Benge 190, Getzen 3062... many more. All Marc. mouthpieces.

Heim · Veteran Member Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 181

Right now I am digging my Golden Flair. It really does play a lot like a Martin Committee.

deleted_user_687c31b · New Member Joined: 03 Apr 1996 Posts: 0

Recently added an Olds Super cornet to the collection...it's not my favorite, but definitely in the top 2.

Halflip · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 11:56 am Post subject:

coxmusic1 · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 6:15 pm Post subject:

My 17-year-old Blackburn C. I have played a few C trumpets over the years but never found one that is as consistent as this one.
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Blackburn Bb and C
Bach/Melk Eb/D
Stomvi Piccolo

ArtandSons · Regular Member Joined: 11 Jan 2016 Posts: 32

I would say a 1976 King Silver Flair. I also have a 1945 Olds Super that needs to have the valves re-plated and aligned so we will see once that is done

Grits Burgh · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:24 pm Post subject:

My Schilke HC 1. It's all about the sound. It has a jazz voice. It can be kind of mellow, but it has an attitude and can growl when you crank up the volume. I can produce different tonal colors on the horn and the slotting is flexible enough to shape the notes. Sometimes when I play it, I actually sound like I know what I'm doing. It is a totally different beast than my Bach Strad and it is nice to have horns with such different personalities. The Strad gets used more in performances because I don't play jazz gigs. But at home, when I get to play whatever I want, it's the Schilke I pick up.

I really need to find a jazz band to join.
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Bach Stradivarius 37 (1971)
Schilke HC 1
Getzen 3810 C Cornet
King Master Bb Cornet (1945)
B&S 3145 Challenger I Series Flugelhorn
Life is short; buy every horn you want and die happy.

vwag · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:37 am Post subject:

Yamahaguy · Heavyweight Member Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 3992

1941 Olds Super

Kumara999 · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 9:27 am Post subject:

Up until a few weeks ago I would have said Fides Symphony 8000 but I just purchased a Stomvi USA that is getting close to unseating it.

mike ansberry · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 9:46 am Post subject:

Favorite trumpet? It depends on what I'm playing. Best general, all around horn- Super Recording. Best for loud rock band- Conn 40b Vocabell. Best for small group jazz- Olds L-12 flugel or Olds recording with TF mouthpiece or Buescher Model 15 cornet.
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maynard-46 · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:08 am Post subject: Favorite trumpet you own

About 7 months ago I purchased the new version of the Yamaha 8310ZII in lacquer. IMO, the revisions that they made to this model were MORE than worth it! This horn does whatever I want it to and is ending up being one of the best trumpets I've ever played/owned!

Butch
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FLUGELHORN: ADAMS Custom "F1" / Legends .585 "CatMaster FL.

plankowner110 · Heavyweight Member Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 3620

My 1961 Conn 36B Connstellation. Both of my trumpets play like a dream but the old Connstellation has such a beautiful sound, feel, and appearance.
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Getzen 800S Eterna cornet
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