[TPIN] "Pea Shooter" trumpets

[Thomas E. Meacham]

I think that Eric's opinion on terminology is the correct one.  A  
"pea-shooter" is considered to refer to the very small-bore trumpets  
(around 0.438 inches or smaller), mostly from the 1920's through the  
1940's, and not to the physical shape of these trumpets.

Many pea-shooters were not of the long, narrow profile (the Conn  
Connstellation is an example).

The fact that many of these pea-shooter trumpets also had a long,  
narrow profile was simply a coincidence, and the profile of these  
horns was not an identifier of a peashooter bore size.  The long,  
narrow profile of these horns was sometimes referred to as a  
"greyhound" profile, and in fact I believe that the Cleveland student  
line of the King Co. had a horn of this long, narrow type that  
actually had the model name, "Greyhound."

Best wishes,

Tom Meacham
Anchorage, Alaska

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On Mar 19, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Eric Edwards wrote:

> I always consider "pea shooters"  very small bore instruments.
>
> Eric
>
>
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> Edwards
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tpin-bounces at tpin.okcu.edu [mailto:tpin-bounces at tpin.okcu.edu]On
> Behalf Of Richard Mason
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:20 PM
> To: J Perales; tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] Re: Buescher Pea Shooter at Rayburn Music NYC
>
> Peashooter trumpets refer to the physical heighth of the trumpet.   
> These are
> usually Bb horns so they have the required 57+ inches of tubing,  
> but the
> valves are a little shorter and the dimension from the bell to the  
> third
> valve slide is quite small, only about three fingers high for most  
> folks.
> This was quite a popular design in the 1930's and early 40's.  Most
> manufacturers had their peashooter model.
>
> J Perales <jrpjazz at yahoo.com> wrote:  I'm not familiar with this  
> term at
> all.
> What is a Pea Shooter trumpet?
>
> J. Perales
>
>
>
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