What is this? I've never seen one of these horns before.

ARB · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:22 am Post subject:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3712773287&category=16214#ebayphotohosting

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camelbrass · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:25 am Post subject:

camelbrass · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:34 am Post subject:

Hi,

Don't know what happened to the post above.

Yep I've heard of them but haven't played one. His Flugels are supposed to be pretty special...James Morrison's got one with a wooden bell!!

Must admit I'd like to have a blow one one. Think he uses the same valve block as Eclipse and Taylor.

Regards

Trevor

supportlivejazz · Heavyweight Member Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 3757

Do a Google search for Thomas Inderbinen and you will find his site. Roy Hargrove, Randy (?) Brecker play his horns. I have heard them both live playing the Siolver Art trumpet and the Wood model flugelhorn and they and the horns sounded absolutely great. If I had the cash.... well, I don't. The Alpha is the basic model and I believe that the design is the closest to a typical trumpet of the models that Inderbinen makes. The others are departures for sure, with odd weighting systems, removeable bells hat are hand hammered with hammer marks left in the bell. I did email Tom Inderbinen a couple of years back and received a reply and i believe I received literature, but not sure. Roy's Silver Art is a beautiful sounding trumpet with an extraordinary range of tonal colors... dark, bright and sharper than Monettes ala Wynton and Brian Lynch and Terence Blanchard. That's what I know. They are very fine trumpets and cornets.

ARB · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:04 am Post subject:

I found his site: http://www.inderbinen.com/silver.htm

Now these are really different:

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_gmdean · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:40 am Post subject:

Tha Alpha is also a more normal weight than the other two. Now why is it that a whole load of people make wierd looking trumpets these days? I can't think the old masters just didn't know something about horn making so I can't understand why making something that looks like it might be used by the lead section of the Spanish Inquisition somehow adds something that can't be achieved in a more conventional manner. What's the physics behind this stuff?

Mark

MUSICandCHARACTER · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:07 pm Post subject:

Don't you think all the "experimentation" is due to some advancements in knowledge, changes in playing styles, and the availability of materials? Some of it is constructive -- some it just, experimental.

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supportlivejazz · Heavyweight Member Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 3757

I have not seen Roy Hargrove for at least a year and a half... has he switched from the Silver Art to the Alpha??? I believe that the first one in the photos above comes with a back brace or the optional full upper-body cast and a comfortable chair. But I like it anyway.

As I said above I REALLY liked the Silver Art the times I heard it played.

The bottom one always looked liked the mating of a Monette and a Chia Pet to me.

ARB · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:16 pm Post subject:

Man, this must some special horn to be at almost $2,200.00 with 7 days to go. Where do you all think it will end?
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Ruechel · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

i saw roy recently and he was definitely playing one. i believe he was playing the alpha that night. he also plays the "wood" flugel which is NOT made out of wood - it is called that because is supposedly has a tonal quality that reminds of a 'wooden' sound. i don't know but he sounds absolutely beautiful on "My Foolish Heart" with Oscar Peterson ("Tribute") and on his version of "Laura". I can't get over how beautifully he plays that thing.