Whats is the purpose of a Sheperds Crook?

[Dale Proctor]

Resurrection of a zombie post, but I'll add this in retrospect from today. I have a non-shepherd's crook 1960s Conn cornet that approaches the sound of a Besson Prestige when I use a Wick 4 in it. Just some anecdotal evidence that a cornet doesn't need a shepherd's crook bell to have "the sound". Speaking of "the sound", a significant part of it has to do with the player's style and technique, too. The old Conn 9A Victor is a wonderful instrument with a big sound, great intonation, and a fairly easy upper register.


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"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away ." - Sir Thomas Beecham

[kehaulani]

Just a musicological note, I think the mythology of early jazz being the domain of bawdy houses and tawdry beginnings does a real stereotyped disservice to early jazz musicians and shouldn't be overstated.

Early Jazz was certainly played in red-light districts, but music, including early Jazz was played all over the Lake Ponchartrain area and as wide as San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago and New Yprk City.

Early jazz was found in neighborhoods all over and around New Orleans - it was a normal part of community life.
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"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird

Yamaha 8310Z Bobby Shew trumpet
Benge 3X Trumpet
Benge 3X Cornet
Adams F-1 Flghn

[JetJaguar]

On Marcinkiewicz's website it says of the Rembrandt: