[Trombone-l] Bass Trumpets

[Walter Barrett]

On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Matthew Stoecker wrote:

> The Elkhart Conn 4B is my favorite-nice trumpety sound with decent  
> intonation characteristics, and they blow a lot more open than the  
> Holton.
>
> I've got a pre-war H.N. White King bass trumpet which is the only  
> one I've seen. It is a magnificent horn, right up there with the Conn.
>


Alan Raph has one of those Conns. Never played it myself, but Alan  
sounds good on it.

A friend of mine has a King bass that is really long and stretched  
out. Is that like the one you have, Matt? There's at least 2, then.


Walter Barrett

"I never heard of a real soloist playing before the public on a  
Trumpet. One cannot play a decent song even, properly, on it, and it  
has sprung up in the last few years like "jaz" music, which is the  
nearest Hell, or the Devil, in music. It pollutes the art of Music."
	-Herbert L. Clarke

Alto, tenor, bass trombones
Bass trumpet, euphonium, tuba
Yamaha Artist/Clinician
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