[Trombone-l] Bass Trumpets

[Matthew Stoecker]

No, the King has a fairly compact wrap, like the Conn. Very nice.
 
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> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:15:53 -0400> From: walttrombone at optonline.net> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Bass Trumpets> To: the_mighty_quinn at msn.com; trombone-l at samford.edu> > > 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> http://www.walterbarrett.com> > >