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Brad361
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rich G wrote:
Brad361 wrote:
My Bach, 43 bell, recently re-done by Tom Green.
Scratched lacquer, Taylor rings and a first slide stop done by Tom, with Curry buttons and bottom caps.



Great looking horn, Brad. One of the nicest scratched finishes I've seen.



Thanks Rich! Tom does great work.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

TrentAustin wrote:
My latest... the awesome Adams Flugelhorn... wow.



Why does a pro line light fluegel have a lyre holder?
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"BRASSED OFF!"



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:10 pm    Post subject: 1946 Committee Reply with quote

Here's my Committee....just recently back from a refurb and gold plating.
Plays great and looks good too! Originally purchased on eBay back in March of this year, it was raw brass and looked liked .....well...you get the idea.

Its saving grace was that other than cosmetics, it was in great shape to begin with.

Check it out......

http://www.kentgaisford.com/MartinCommittee/index.html

And I can't make this post without giving High Fives and Kudos to the guys at Peninsula Music and Repair. They are the BEST! Thanks Eric and Pat.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:22 pm    Post subject: Re: 1946 Committee Reply with quote

DezynGuy wrote:
Here's my Committee....just recently back from a refurb and gold plating.
Plays great and looks good too! Originally purchased on eBay back in March of this year, it was raw brass and looked liked .....well...you get the idea.

Its saving grace was that other than cosmetics, it was in great shape to begin with.

Check it out......

http://www.kentgaisford.com/MartinCommittee/index.html

And I can't make this post without giving High Fives and Kudos to the guys at Peninsula Music and Repair. They are the BEST! Thanks Eric and Pat.
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I'm in lust, absolutely the prettiest Committee I've seen.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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My latest purchase, while it is still up on their website. This should arrive sometime next week. The pics are really well done, am hoping it will keep my '27 2-B company.


http://quality-brass.com/callet/c8.html


This fell deeeep in the 'shouldn't spend the money right now' catagory, perhaps it is time for an intervention??



I realize it is the height of narcissism to quote my own post, but I've got to do a followup on this. After a week of playing, this is one incredible trumpet. I don't know if it is Jerry Callet's various tweaks or the stock design (Conn's best shot at their version of the French Besson) but this takes response to an entirely new level for me. Tongue with a 'nu' attack, and the note is just....there. Silence, then a solid, consistent tone, whether ppp or ff.

As with the earlier 2-B, if you internally hear the note wrong, you will play it wrong. Pitch accuracy is entirely up to the player, as the trumpet will go EXACTLY where you tell it to go.

If you are searching for a professional trumpet and a late design 2-B crosses your path, SERIOUSLY consider it.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hansonsf wrote:

This is one (on the right lest there be any confusion!) I whipped up last August out of my scrap box.

"A desperately poor man's custom trumpet!"

I think we were working with similar vision, eh? I just had considerably fewer resources.

Steve

Ex-TR300? Not bad custom work there.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

operagost wrote:
Ex-TR300? Not bad custom work there.


YUP! Recycled and reused! Whipped up two at the same time . . .

http://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85512&highlight=

It was good clean fun and kept me out of trouble except for the inevitable cuts and burns I seem to get whenever I work on anything. It's not my job until I bleed on it!

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The old saying in car clubs is "Save time, rub your knuckles up and down on the radiator when you first open the hood"
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:50 pm    Post subject: Re: 1946 Committee Reply with quote

plp wrote:
I'm in lust, absolutely the prettiest Committee I've seen.



No kidding. Looks absolutely spectacular in gold.

DezynGuy - did you notice any differences in the sound after the replate?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The thread has almost 100,000 views... I thought I might revive it bit and request a new frenzy of "eye candy" photographs....

I don't have much new these days but I did have Andy Taylor "Taylorise" my modular Edwards with a wonderful "phat" bell..


Not sure how to post as photo bucket is no longer free...
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Retlaw wrote:
Not sure how to post as photo bucket is no longer free...


I went over to flickr.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 9:05 am    Post subject: Eye candy Reply with quote

It was a first hand realization of how important the "eye candy" effect has on trumpet players and I presume most musicians in general.

I was displaying my Scodwell USA trumpets and flugels at a National Trumpet Competion and my display was with Washington Music Center who also was a Kanstul dealer at the time. On the table next to my silver-plated flugelhorn was a copper bell Kanstul flugel. For the entire week nobody picked my flugelhorn up and all were drawn to the copper bell Kanstul like a magnet. That was when I realized the "eye candy" effect and started producing my own copper bell flugel which by the way was brighter than my yellow brass bell version.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 9:16 am    Post subject: Re: Eye candy Reply with quote

Tony Scodwell wrote:
It was a first hand realization of how important the "eye candy" effect has on trumpet players and I presume most musicians in general.

I was displaying my Scodwell USA trumpets and flugels at a National Trumpet Competion and my display was with Washington Music Center who also was a Kanstul dealer at the time. On the table next to my silver-plated flugelhorn was a copper bell Kanstul flugel. For the entire week nobody picked my flugelhorn up and all were drawn to the copper bell Kanstul like a magnet. That was when I realized the "eye candy" effect and started producing my own copper bell flugel which by the way was brighter than my yellow brass bell version.

Tony Scodwell
www.scodwellusa.com


I have also found Kanstul's copper bells to sound brighter than their yellow brass bells, especially their silver and gold plated brass.

You have to admit, Tony, that there is little in the world of brass instruments that out "candys" a Kanstul instrument with a copper bell!
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about a 'Connvention'?


48B Connqueror (Vocabell) -- Restored by Mark Metzler; subtle antique tint lacquer finish by Tom Green



10A Victor -- Restored by Charlie Melk



8B Artist -- Restored by Charlie Melk; valve rebuild by Dr. Valve



60B "Super Connstellation" -- Restored by Charlie Melk (replacement bottom caps courtesy of Pickett Brass)
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2021 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These look great restorations….😎
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2021 2:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Retlaw wrote:
These look great restorations….😎


Thanks! The people and resources used are all tops at what they do.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2021 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Halflip,
Beautiful Conn trumpets. Charlie Melk does amazing restoration indeed!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2021 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Halflip,
Beautiful Conn trumpets. Charlie Melk does amazing restoration indeed!


Thank you! Yes, Charlie has restored most of the horns in my collection (which number over 50). He knows so much about the art and craft of brass instrument construction and restoration! Before he moved to the greater Atlanta area, his Wisconsin shop was just a few miles from my home (a convenience and luxury which I never failed to appreciate). However, I can't blame him for seeking more temperate climes.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2021 2:41 pm    Post subject: Eye Candy: My Thane Reply with quote

I'll add my Thane (completed/ delivered to me August 2021) to the collection:








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