What and When Was Your First?

Christian K. Peters · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:46 pm Post subject: What and when was your first

Hello all,
I wanted to play drums or trombone, but dad had a 1948 Olds Special in the closet. 6th grade 1969. Still a great horn. Used it through junior high and then high school and college marching band. Almost time to have the valves done...but not quite.
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PMonteiro · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:53 pm Post subject:

My first trumpet was a beat up Blessing Accord that I got on ebay for around $30. The thing is built like a tank. It tolerated years of me using WD-40 as valve oil until I knew better.

I've since cleaned it up and converted it to become my first C trumpet. Got the dents out, stripped the old lacquer, and fabricated a Bach-style 3rd slide stop rod. For a DIY conversion done in my garage, it plays really well as a C trumpet and looks nice.
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Seymor B Fudd · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:24 am Post subject: Re: What and When Was Your First?

harryjamesworstnightmare · Veteran Member Joined: 04 Mar 2010 Posts: 167

My first horn was a Blessing Super Artist cornet from around 1956 or so. Played it through HS in the 70's and then sold it after I picked up a Bach Strad for college. The SA was a nice horn and I've never found anything like it since. Whoever bought has/had one sweet horn.
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Estevao · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:11 am Post subject:

If it’s not a dead thread:

1962: rental cornet (name unknown, mpc had “steps” like Curry Hitman.

1963: My single mother of 5 managed to buy me a new Bundy cornet that came with a terrible mpc. The rim was flat, @ 3/16 wide, and the cup was narrow & extremely shallow.

1968: I played that combo all thru high school.I finally talked my band teacher (who played screamingly high trumpet for circuses that came thru town) into trying it. A few licks later he said, “If you ever sell this horn please don’t sell it anywhere in this state.”

BTW: I had so mal-treated that Bundy that he talked my mother into getting it completely rebuilt. In the meantime he loaned me his older than dirt Olds Recording trumpet with heavy copper bell & dual triggers. It Looked like Quasimodo and sang like Caruso. I begged him to sell to me but he refused, citing its ugliness. Not every kid wants a shiny horn.

I sometimes wonder if my trumpet playing “career” would have taken a better path if one of my teachers had bothered to check out my sub-par equipment.
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JensenW · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:36 pm Post subject:

I rented a Yamaha student model for maybe 10 months, when my wife went to Las Vegas for work and found this Yamaha 737 in a pawn shop. I went out there, tried the horn, and we bought it. I have had it ever since, and it's my one and only.

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blbaumgarn · Heavyweight Member Joined: 26 Jul 2017 Posts: 705

September 1960, fifth grade. Mom and Dad popped for a new Conn Director and it was like a little over $100. My dad made a pronouncement that "you better practice the damned thing." Which I always did. Don't know who the Conn compared with other horns in the day but I played it, alot, and kept it up the best I could. In those days I knew what $100 meant to my folks. With that Director they game me the love for music. A great gift.
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agroovin48 · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:06 am Post subject: My first

In 1959 my first instrument was a Roth cornet. I loved it, but I hated my teacher who eventually drove me away from playing because of his abusive behavior. The cornet passed down to my sister and then a brother who proceed to trash it. I had thought it was long gone until helping to clean out my recently deceased sister's apartment. I have it again and am planning on having it restored. Expensive for a student cornet, but there is a lot of sentimental value there.
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Dink · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:46 pm Post subject: First horn

My first was an old used $35 English Besson. It was a dog at best.
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A.N.A.Mendez · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:53 pm Post subject:

Used King. 1958.
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nowave · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 7:33 pm Post subject:

Student Blessing something-or-other in the early 70s... hand-me-down from my brother. Pretty terrible and it ended up as a wall decoration.

Surcouf · Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:47 am Post subject:

My first trumpet was an old rental peashooter of unknown (to me) age and provenance; after a year my parents did a rent-to-own on a used, but very nice 1964 Olds Special - and that is still my every day horn.

thecoast · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:55 pm Post subject:

Getzen Caravelle. Got it new when I was 17 years old (so mid 1979). A few years ago, I gave it to a grandnephew. He never really quite took off with music. Found out he wasn't using it and asked if he wouldn't mind sending it home. It suffered more in a few years in his hands than in the decades I had it. Zip tie around the lead pipe brace right now. I think I will get a nice Getzen when I get some money. I wonder what their C trumpets feel like.
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jrpbrass · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:35 am Post subject: Re: What and When Was Your First?

Geo7084 · Regular Member Joined: 16 Dec 2020 Posts: 11 Location: USA

My parents bought me a new Olds Ambassador in 1961. I still have it. The valves are great and actually sounds pretty good for a student level horn. I think Olds put the quality in before the name went on...Ha ha.
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acritzer · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:51 am Post subject:

Played some beat up Conn cornet for a year. Then my dad found a trumpet for me in the want ads for $300. Turned out to be a Mt. Vernon Bach 43. The funny thing is he didn't know anything about trumpets, it was just dumb luck.

Brad361 · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:10 am Post subject:

1927-ish Conn cornet, belonged to my grandfather. Pretty much everyone in the family played it at one time or another (grandfather, mother, aunt, cousin and uncle), I then inherited it about three years ago.

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A.N.A.Mendez · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:12 pm Post subject:

Student King model, used.
When I made 1st chair my dad bought me an L.A. Mendez..... I cherished that horn......
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