[Trombone-l] C. Mahillon trombone

[thetubameister@roadrunner.com]

Interesting that the pictured "piccolo trumpet" on the vsl site is actually one of King's "miniature" Liberty Trumpets.  Believe me, you wouldn't want to use this for legit music!

J.c.S.

---- Sharman King <sharman at sharmanking.ca> wrote: 
> The Mahillon factory was quite innovative. I'm playing Salome right now, 
> written in 1905. At the time Richard Strauss was revising Berlioz' 
> orchestration treatise and in it advocated metal Eb clarinets for 
> baroque trumpet parts. According to this article:
> http://vsl.co.at/en/70/3139/3143/3145/5431.vsl
> Victor-Charles Mahillon (the son of the founder of the firm and a 
> seminal scholar in instruments) developed the piccolo trumpet we 
> commonly use today.
> 
> The firm also developed the new instruments required for Wagner:
> http://www.britishtrombonesociety.org/resources/archived-articles/gardeners-question-time.html
> as well as six-valved instruments improve the intonation difficulties of 
> valve combinations.
> 
> Others on the list will know much more about Mahillon's influence in the 
> development of our instruments. My knowledge of the firm comes from the 
> late Joe deBruycker, a Belgian repairman who apprenticed at Mahillon and 
> later came to Canada. He made several hundred tenor trombone bells 
> adapted from the Williams flare and a very few bass trombone bells. 
> Those of us who have these instruments aren't parting with them.
> 
> Sharman
> 
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