@@Matraka2000 thank you, and wish you well. Are used to do eight hours a day on the clarinet so I know what it’s like, but rewarding in the end! The difficult to bit is having up there, or near, you Gotta keep going!
YOU GENTLEMAN LAID THIS OUT WITH A EXCELLENT RECORDING THAT TOOK ME TO A MILES DAVIS AND SONNY ROLANDS SOUND THAT CALLED TRUE CLASSIC JAZZ. ALL PARTS SINK IN A PLEASURE OF THE HUMAN EAR. --DUNMORE MUSIC OF MONEE IL.
Nice. Interesting bit about the vintage small bore trumpet, too--the original builder probably never imagined it would playing this well after more than a century. Great stuff.
It means a good one (as in this trumpet is presentation grade). The make and model aren't specified but basically its a quality made and maintained 100 year old trumpet that is worth more in restoration costs than the 2-300 bucks or so that pre ww2 trumpets go for on ebay because it has been properly restored. Realistically though you could get 80-90% of the same performance out of a good vintage ebay horn so long as the compression was halfway decent and the valves didn't stick horribly. Those old horns have a range from heavy and dull sound to narrow and bright and are pretty finnicky. The music comes from working around those quirks, that's why people like the good condition rare vintage horns. They aren't better than modern ones and are in many ways harder to play, but those limitations breed creativity... or frustration. You won't see many classical musicians digging deep into the vintage horn scene but jazz musicians do while searching for a new sound... then again classical trumpeters can go all the way back to the valveless natural trumpet from the baroque era and no jazz trumpeter I've ever seen has gone that far down the vintage hole while looking for new ways to play old songs, or old ways to play old songs... you know what I mean.
