[TPIN] buying a 'c' trumpet

[Orion Development Corp - D. Arndt]

I did a fare amount of orchestral work 'back in the day' when I was playing 
professionally, as well as in school and when busy taking auditions.  I also 
worked for a few years as principal with an orchestra down in latin america...

I used C Trumpet for most, if not all, of this work.  In spite of that, I 
swear I've never played a C Trumpet that I *really* liked!!!  They always 
felt bitchy where intonation was concerned, and I never like the sound and 
feel as much as I did the Bb.

So why did I use it?  Peer pressure?  Probably!  I guess I felt that in order 
to "fit in" with the orchestral scene, that you had to be playing a C.  

Maybe a I had to reach middle age to start thinking for myself.  (Oooops!  
Forgot...  My wife does that for me know <ggg> )

- da


On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:33:29 -0500, Brian D. Moon wrote
> Depends on how bad their intonation is.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Achias1 at mchsi.com>
> To: "TPIN" <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] buying a 'c' trumpet
> 
> > Similarly, I didn't get a C until after college.
> >
> > I played in the college orchestra plus two civic orchestras and transposed
> > everything on my B flat.
> >
> > Myth or not: C trumpets match the tuning of strings better than B flats?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > ----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
> > From:    "Ellis Workman" <elw at workman-net.org>
> > To:      "Brian D. Moon" <briandavidmoon at comcast.net>
> > Cc:      tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
> > Subject: Re: [TPIN] buying a 'c' trumpet
> > Date:    Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:43:44 +0000
> >
> >> ... having retarded development; I never touched one
> >> until my sophomore year in college and never owned own
> >> until age 26. Growing up in a culturally deprived
> >> environment; I did not know about C trumpets and
> >> piccolo trumpets when in 8th grade.
> >>
> >> Yes, the world would be a better place if every
> >> HS aged trumpet player had a picc.
> >>
> >> -Ellis
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