Re: Re: Re: Re: Question about a trumpet.......


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Posted by Finally Something on November 14, 2003 at 21:31:59:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Question about a trumpet....... posted by js on November 14, 2003 at 20:12:56:

..that I actually know a bit about. New to the tuba I've a basement overflowing with assorted trumpets (46 years of playing, still counting, and still stink!). The conversion of old trumpets to C and A is not even remotely rare. King used this feature for years and years. They by and large play in C but not so's you'd want to do so.... Reall small bore trumpets, generically called pea shooters actually play quite well. Conn cornets of the teens with the "circus bore" were large even by today's standards and a current fluegel is still frequently in the .415 range. .450 give or take is still a perfectly respectable instrument. King liberties were played by quite a few big band pro's in the forties. It eventually became a middle of the line model as the Super 20's moved in towards the middle of the century. A similar thing happened with the King Zephyr sax's as they were replaced by the supers. Actually the fact that the C section still pulls is a bit of a novelty; the feature was so infrequently used they're by and large frozen in place.
While you could conceivably fool someone into thinking it was some kind of unique C trumpet you'd do them a disservice- and a decent liberty is a perfectly respectable horn in and of itself. Henry


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