For whatever reason I hadn't watched a video from you in a few months and going from a few months ago to now you look absolutely great man. Congratulations on your weight loss.
As a Euphonist, I'm concerned that giving trumpets an additional octave will make their egos too large to control. I mean, we can handle that much awesome; just look at our horns. But trumpets? Methinks the village may turn on you, Frankenstein. 🤣👍
Almost octave. No compensating system means no good B natural, and B-flat on trumpets is really quite hard to achieve. The ego trip thing is a large worry, though.
Nonsense. We trumpet players are well known for our extreme humility. Our unparalleled skill entitles us to brag far more than we actually do. After all, the entire concert band literally exists just to provide pleasant background ambiance for people listening to the trumpets.... 🤣
I did near the same thing 50 years ago when I was in high school. But rather that have the 4th valve as you have made it, I cut the valve tube from a 2nd valve in half and made the 4th valve lower the pitch a quarter step. I wasn't lucky enough to have a torch and soldering skills, so I just glued it together with epoxy cement. It worked great and years later I had a proper repair person solder it up for me. Love the experiments. Good show.
Love seeing creative stuff like this. A concern for practicality/necessity often stops a lot of fun from being had. The horn still sounds quite good too!
I find it amazing how much of a difference you look after losing all that weight, especially after watching a few of your older videos from a few years ago. If it wasn't for your voice, I would swear that you are a completely different person.
As a low brass player, I have found those 4-valve flugelhorns interesting and have pondered getting one for the possible extended alto range to make up for my lack of high brass chops, lol
I’ve been watching this channel on and off for almost 5 years now and was a little shocked to see how you look now. I guess I could say we’ve both lost a good bit of weight since then but congrats!
Garage mad scientist, are as mad as a hatter, one of the horns looks like the Jean Paul TR430 rose brass lead pipe horn, which was a gift. Strovi, already makes these 4 valve horns, you must know that.....Entertaining vlog.......Tweakers never get tired......
One of the trumpet players in my brass ensemble plays a four valve flugelhorn. Boy was he surprised when I actually wrote for it. Four valve trumpet..... Better be prepared to use it 😜
Excellent Trent, thank you. I recently had an Eb tenor horn customised with a fourth valve - euphonium style for the left hand - and it’s great - nearly four octaves range.
I always thought a mini-euphonium in E♭ or F, complete with compensating 4th valve, could be a very interesting solo or small ensemble instrument. It might even be practical to do a full double system like a double horn, which of course gets stupid heavy with a euphonium. Imagine an E♭/B♭ tenor/baritone horn, fully switched by the fourth valve.
@@mal2ksc Yes, I agree, such an instrument would be great. But I have to make do with my non-compensating fourth valve on my Eb tenor horn! A compensating system would need a lot of research and development I’m sure!
@@derekhayes8209 Yes... unless you use rotary valves rather than piston. Both compensating and double-horn (and even triple-horn) systems are made much easier mechanically by using rotary valves.
@@mal2ksc That doesn't actually sound all that impractical, even as a double euphonium. That's less total length of tubing than a typical double horn, and I highly doubt it would end up weighing more than about 8kg/18lbs, probably less, and tubas can be like 50% heavier than that.
This is very encouraging! I have been thinking of doing something similar with an old 2-valve bugle that I got dirt cheap. It has a wonderful tone and resonance but I'd love to give it a 3rd valve, thereby essentially making it a trumpet in G. That said, I think I might seek a professional's help here in Canada. I don't think I have the skills to do it on my own.
I have never understood why 4 valves on trumpets are not the standard, when literally every other professional brass instrument calls for at least that many.
I suppose that it may be, as the trumpet low register is fairly (to me) not nice sounding compared to other (higher) pitches. Tuba/Euphonium/Baritone have more control and usability in low register compared to trumpet, even with similar valves
@@wiebemartens1030 that has been my general understanding, or least what has been told to me over the years, but I bet that if more players had trumpets with 4th valves there would be some out there that would make that low register sound great regardless of what they've been told they're capable of
The trumpet is too small for a compensating valve system which would make intonation very difficult in the low register, it’s the same reason why people rarely use the fourth valve to play extremely low notes on the piccolo trumpet
This is so cool Trent! I binge watch your videos all the time. Came up playing trumpet but I switched to tenor sax in college. I still pull out my trumpet and play occasionally though, I keep just enough chops to put brass parts on recordings! You satisfy my inner brass nerd. 🙏
I love the idea, I’m a euphonium player myself, the only thing is PLEASE DEAR GOD PRESS THE VALVE WHEN YOU TAKE OUT THE SLIDE. It physically hurt me to here that pop from the slide coming out with a negative air pressure. It can cause a range of problems from air leaking to dented slide or even dented valve casings. Not my place to speculate but it might’ve been the problem with the other trumpet
It sounded pretty good, which surprised me a bit. Would the fourth valve effect the tuning much and with the extra tubing, is it still in the key of Bb?
Very nice. Allows to play a few notes in the classical literature that the unmodified instrument has trouble with. Usually low F's (Eb concerts). Now you need a replication of Don Ellis's quarter-tone fourth valve and you've got everything covered.
Start a line….. I’m fucking serious! This is the new trumpet equivalent of a trigger or double trigger trombone… I can seriously see this catching on eventually
HEY TRENT HOW ARE YOU THESE DAY'S ! THAT 4 VALVE TRUMPET YOU BUILT IS BEAUTIFUL , I WANT ONE ! A 4 VALVE FLUGABONE WOULD BE NICE ALSO AS WOULD A 4 VALVE FLUGELHORN WOULD BE NICE ALSO !
How much does the fourth valve extend the range, or is it a matter of providing alternate fingers to more easily hit low notes? That’s the case with my noncompensating four-valve euph.
Definitely more of a alternative fingering kinda deal imo, the 4th valve isn’t the best idea imo. Stomvi themselves say a 3 valve horn plays better and they build most the 4 valve horns on the market
@@bruhsoundeffect8455 But as he demonstrated, it gives him another fourth of range in the low register before resorting to pedal tones. Very nice sound, and because of his larger instrument experience, well played.
@@bruhsoundeffect8455 *euphoniums and tubas laughing sounds* it increases your range, gives you alternate fingerings AND means you can play some notes in tune without fiddling around with moving tuning slides. Only wins in my book.
Is there an explanation to what the 4th valve does? 1st tunes down the note by a tone, 2nd by a semi tone, and 3rd by 3 semi tones. Is the 4th like the piccolo trumpet where it allows you to reach pedal notes?
I believe it was Myles Davis who had a four valve trumpet made for him. In his case the 5th valve lowered the pitch quarter-tone. He was experimenting with new sounds. I hope your explorations are good. I'm a tuba player who has a 4-valve instrument which helps in tuning some pitches, and extends the lower range. Some tubas have five or six valves.
Stomvi makes a whole range of 4-valve trumpets, cornets, and flugelhorns in every key from Bb up through soprano A cornet/piccolo. They're on the high end of the price range for professional trumpets (though nothing like the like of Monettes) but Stomvi makes great quality instruments.
I've got a Stomvi master trumpet in Bb, my favorite horn (and I have... too many lol) Ironically, my second favorite is a 1928 Conn 22B I bought for $50 in an antique store... valves were seized, in the wrong order, and backwards. Horrible solder and patch jobs, plating wearing thin and tarnished... other than doing some valve work, I left it exactly as found because it has so much character but they're buttery smooth now, good compression, and I can *feel* the trumpet resonate when I play.
Wow, that actually sounds good for something that was created by attacking two trumpets with blowtorches, hacksaws, and flat files. I'm not hearing any air leakage. Has a full, rich sound, and for a non-trumpet-player, your trumpet playing sounds pretty good. A lot better than I could do. (I tried playing a trumpet once; sounded like a cross between a cow farting and an eagle screeching.)
Excuse my language, but this video kicked ass. Thank you so much for showing the work and process involved in this. It really came out sounding wonderful. Ya'oughta patent it and get Jin Bao to produce it!
probably because the trumpet is a soprano instrument, so Bb, C, Eb, (Bb/A/Ab) piccolo, etc trumpets are always the highest in the brass family. a fourth valve only increases range down by a perfect fourth (2 and a half steps), which is in a register that tenor/alto horns and trombones/euphoniums traditionally play. i guess people are just used to the register that a 4-valve Bb trumpet can play being played by tenor/alto horns and trombones. stomvi makes very very high quality instruments, among them a few models of 4-valve Bb trumpets
@@jojnokirk8035 lots of opportunity for better in tune alternate fingerings. Plus a more focused sound in the low register then some of the more unwieldy alto brass.
Awesome. I've got a tenor horn from the 1890s which is in high pitch, so I have wondered whether as part of a conversion to low pitch, a non-compensating 4th valve would be possible to add. However, this is way out of my skill set and I wouldn't know where to find parts to make this happen.
All you need to convert a HP horn to LP is longer slides. You typically don't have to alter the main body of the instrument at all. Then you even have the option of putting the original slides back in, if you ever _needed_ a HP horn.
I did this with 2 Chinese trumpets. One was already a c trumpet so I needed to do a lot more work on 4th valve(and measuring). Worked pretty well but the horns were too cheap to make it any good so it was trashed in the end. I would say for future projects invest in a buff wheel and bench grinder and or just the buff compound itself and use strips of old t shirt to clean up burnt lacquer and unwanted solder and if you want to do it again I say get 2 of the same horn so you don’t have the one valve higher problem. I want to do it again and use 2 olds ambassador trumpets because 1. They’re cheap2. Very good quality for the price3. I can reuse a lot of parts if it doesn’t turn out well
Also if you want it to look good without a ton of extra work, you probably should start with silver-plated instruments. It's a pretty simple matter to brush-plate silver over your work marks afterward, which is a whole lot easier than a full re-lacquer. If you have your heart set on a gold tint, a bottle of gold plating solution (to put on top of the silver) is about $40.
Oh, hitting that low concert-Eb on a descending major arpeggio must feel nice! Always bugged me that the standard trumpets can't hit that note, given how prominent the key of concert-F is on a standard trumpet!
Hello everyone, I have an interesting idea with tuba. My idea is, since I don't have money for sousaphone but I have a Soviet Helicon I think to unsolder the Bell from the helicon, add a knee and a Bell from the Sousaphone. out handmade rotor Sousaphone)) but I'm afraid that through the knee and the big bell it will be very low in tune. and if you take Es helicon then it will be high in tune .. I want Sousaphone to have a Bb system but I'm hesitant because of that, what do you think?
check out a trpt player and band leader from the seventies by the name of Don Ellis. He had a trumpet engineered by Getzen with 4 valves. It was in fact a 1/4 tone trumpet. He also had a very interesting band. Wrote the music for the movie French Connection too!
That's awesome (I actually said it audibly in my empty den for no one). I really wasn't sure what you were going to come up with, but it wasn't that. Also I didn't expect ot to be in tune.
Here you say that your main instrument is the Euphonium. I always thought it was the trombone. But then, you can have more than one main instrument after all.
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For whatever reason I hadn't watched a video from you in a few months and going from a few months ago to now you look absolutely great man. Congratulations on your weight loss.
I know right? He looks great!
i was thinking the same thing
Same!
Same thought! and now with a suit jacket too! lol
Same I haven’t watched in years, world of difference Trent, keep it up
You've become quite adept at handling Chinesium metal
As a Euphonist, I'm concerned that giving trumpets an additional octave will make their egos too large to control. I mean, we can handle that much awesome; just look at our horns. But trumpets? Methinks the village may turn on you, Frankenstein. 🤣👍
Almost octave. No compensating system means no good B natural, and B-flat on trumpets is really quite hard to achieve. The ego trip thing is a large worry, though.
Nonsense. We trumpet players are well known for our extreme humility. Our unparalleled skill entitles us to brag far more than we actually do. After all, the entire concert band literally exists just to provide pleasant background ambiance for people listening to the trumpets.... 🤣
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Me: *sad french horn noises*
Those trumpeters who wanted it have had four-valve flugelhorns at their disposal for a long time. It hasn't driven them mad... yet.
Hey as a trumpet player I resemble that remark
I did near the same thing 50 years ago when I was in high school. But rather that have the 4th valve as you have made it, I cut the valve tube from a 2nd valve in half and made the 4th valve lower the pitch a quarter step. I wasn't lucky enough to have a torch and soldering skills, so I just glued it together with epoxy cement. It worked great and years later I had a proper repair person solder it up for me. Love the experiments. Good show.
Wow nice!! Any videos of you playing it??
So a Don Ellis fourth valve then.
@@mal2ksc That's exactly what I was thinking
Love seeing creative stuff like this. A concern for practicality/necessity often stops a lot of fun from being had.
The horn still sounds quite good too!
I find it amazing how much of a difference you look after losing all that weight, especially after watching a few of your older videos from a few years ago.
If it wasn't for your voice, I would swear that you are a completely different person.
I had the same reaction.
I got so confused when I saw him again because he looked so different
As a low brass player, I have found those 4-valve flugelhorns interesting and have pondered getting one for the possible extended alto range to make up for my lack of high brass chops, lol
I’ve been watching this channel on and off for almost 5 years now and was a little shocked to see how you look now. I guess I could say we’ve both lost a good bit of weight since then but congrats!
I am in awe. Excellent job making something that plays in tune.
Garage mad scientist, are as mad as a hatter, one of the horns looks like the Jean Paul TR430 rose brass lead pipe horn, which was a gift. Strovi, already makes these 4 valve horns, you must know that.....Entertaining vlog.......Tweakers never get tired......
Ahh no, I didn’t use the Jean Paul trumpet on this project :).
@@TrentHamilton Atta boy, I was just wondering..I had a cringe effect.....
One of the trumpet players in my brass ensemble plays a four valve flugelhorn. Boy was he surprised when I actually wrote for it. Four valve trumpet..... Better be prepared to use it 😜
I was so ecstatic when I heard a XingBao was being customized.
This is absolutely incredible!!!
Interesting content. Superb photography & editing. And an engaging presentation.
Excellent Trent, thank you. I recently had an Eb tenor horn customised with a fourth valve - euphonium style for the left hand - and it’s great - nearly four octaves range.
I always thought a mini-euphonium in E♭ or F, complete with compensating 4th valve, could be a very interesting solo or small ensemble instrument. It might even be practical to do a full double system like a double horn, which of course gets stupid heavy with a euphonium. Imagine an E♭/B♭ tenor/baritone horn, fully switched by the fourth valve.
@@mal2ksc Yes, I agree, such an instrument would be great. But I have to make do with my non-compensating fourth valve on my Eb tenor horn! A compensating system would need a lot of research and development I’m sure!
@@derekhayes8209 Yes... unless you use rotary valves rather than piston. Both compensating and double-horn (and even triple-horn) systems are made much easier mechanically by using rotary valves.
@@mal2ksc That doesn't actually sound all that impractical, even as a double euphonium. That's less total length of tubing than a typical double horn, and I highly doubt it would end up weighing more than about 8kg/18lbs, probably less, and tubas can be like 50% heavier than that.
I have been wanting to do something exactly like this! Your videos are fantastic. Great work, and can't wait to see the final product!
This is very encouraging! I have been thinking of doing something similar with an old 2-valve bugle that I got dirt cheap. It has a wonderful tone and resonance but I'd love to give it a 3rd valve, thereby essentially making it a trumpet in G. That said, I think I might seek a professional's help here in Canada. I don't think I have the skills to do it on my own.
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I have never understood why 4 valves on trumpets are not the standard, when literally every other professional brass instrument calls for at least that many.
I suppose that it may be, as the trumpet low register is fairly (to me) not nice sounding compared to other (higher) pitches. Tuba/Euphonium/Baritone have more control and usability in low register compared to trumpet, even with similar valves
@@wiebemartens1030 that has been my general understanding, or least what has been told to me over the years, but I bet that if more players had trumpets with 4th valves there would be some out there that would make that low register sound great regardless of what they've been told they're capable of
Seems like trumpet players always want to play higher rather than lower.
If you practice low, you can sound good. But every trumpet player is at heart Maynard Ferguson and don't like to become low specialists.
The trumpet is too small for a compensating valve system which would make intonation very difficult in the low register, it’s the same reason why people rarely use the fourth valve to play extremely low notes on the piccolo trumpet
An Eb soprano trumpet with a 4th valve to make it a Bb trumpet would be something worth trying.
Would it though?
You are an inspiration Trent. And you have at least 78 thousand friends on here!
wow, you lost so much weight! good job!
This is so cool Trent! I binge watch your videos all the time. Came up playing trumpet but I switched to tenor sax in college. I still pull out my trumpet and play occasionally though, I keep just enough chops to put brass parts on recordings! You satisfy my inner brass nerd. 🙏
Im the opposite! I came up playing tenor sax and am switching to trumpet for college
My highschool trumpet mate arron Smith trumpet Smith arron smith made 4 value eb and f trumpets many years ago .
The excellent trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf has a four-valve trumpet that he uses to play the quarter tones used in arabic scales.
Funny trumpet
It's amazing what one can accomplish without friends.
-Plays Euphonium
-Makes a 4 valve trumpet
-Has a trombone as a logo
Hmm
I love the idea, I’m a euphonium player myself, the only thing is PLEASE DEAR GOD PRESS THE VALVE WHEN YOU TAKE OUT THE SLIDE. It physically hurt me to here that pop from the slide coming out with a negative air pressure. It can cause a range of problems from air leaking to dented slide or even dented valve casings. Not my place to speculate but it might’ve been the problem with the other trumpet
That's a load of rubbish sorry.
Have you lost weight? Looking good!
Looking good my fellow Trent! Hope all is well your way! Keep on keepin' on!
Thanks mate :)
Well done @Trent Hamilton can’t wait to see your trumpet some more
It sounded pretty good, which surprised me a bit. Would the fourth valve effect the tuning much and with the extra tubing, is it still in the key of Bb?
Great idea. You better patent the improvement before someone steals it.
I would even buy it
I'd be happy to trade my social circle for a 4-valve trumpet - what a bargain!
Hello, can you make a video about baroque trumpet, sackbuts, and slide trumpets?
Very nice. Allows to play a few notes in the classical literature that the unmodified instrument has trouble with. Usually low F's (Eb concerts).
Now you need a replication of Don Ellis's quarter-tone fourth valve and you've got everything covered.
Or a Kanstul "tune any note" trigger slide, that'd get you your quarter tone pretty easily as well as being an interesting gimmick in its own right.
Very impressive! Is it still in Bb?
Start a line….. I’m fucking serious! This is the new trumpet equivalent of a trigger or double trigger trombone… I can seriously see this catching on eventually
Ya know what, I'd buy one
HEY TRENT HOW ARE YOU THESE DAY'S ! THAT 4 VALVE TRUMPET YOU BUILT IS BEAUTIFUL , I WANT ONE ! A 4 VALVE FLUGABONE WOULD BE NICE ALSO AS WOULD A 4 VALVE FLUGELHORN WOULD BE NICE ALSO !
Looking great!
Wow how impressive! you actually made it work!
I was literally just thinking this the other day and what do I stumble upon other than a four valves trumpet
I know you’ve used carolbrass trumpets
With this in mind you should now do a comparison of their brand new 4 valve Bb trumpet
I want to do that but I know that what will come out the other end will look and sound like an affront to the universe.
How much does the fourth valve extend the range, or is it a matter of providing alternate fingers to more easily hit low notes? That’s the case with my noncompensating four-valve euph.
It would allow it to go two and a half tones lower, or a perfect fourth.
Definitely more of a alternative fingering kinda deal imo, the 4th valve isn’t the best idea imo. Stomvi themselves say a 3 valve horn plays better and they build most the 4 valve horns on the market
@@bruhsoundeffect8455 But as he demonstrated, it gives him another fourth of range in the low register before resorting to pedal tones. Very nice sound, and because of his larger instrument experience, well played.
@@bruhsoundeffect8455 *euphoniums and tubas laughing sounds* it increases your range, gives you alternate fingerings AND means you can play some notes in tune without fiddling around with moving tuning slides. Only wins in my book.
Low concert c realistically, but hypothetically a low b concert , although grossly out of tune without a lot of fudging.
Is there an explanation to what the 4th valve does? 1st tunes down the note by a tone, 2nd by a semi tone, and 3rd by 3 semi tones. Is the 4th like the piccolo trumpet where it allows you to reach pedal notes?
It's the equivalent of holding 1&3.
I believe it was Myles Davis who had a four valve trumpet made for him. In his case the 5th valve lowered the pitch quarter-tone. He was experimenting with new sounds. I hope your explorations are good. I'm a tuba player who has a 4-valve instrument which helps in tuning some pitches, and extends the lower range. Some tubas have five or six valves.
Stomvi makes a whole range of 4-valve trumpets, cornets, and flugelhorns in every key from Bb up through soprano A cornet/piccolo. They're on the high end of the price range for professional trumpets (though nothing like the like of Monettes) but Stomvi makes great quality instruments.
I've got a Stomvi master trumpet in Bb, my favorite horn (and I have... too many lol) Ironically, my second favorite is a 1928 Conn 22B I bought for $50 in an antique store... valves were seized, in the wrong order, and backwards. Horrible solder and patch jobs, plating wearing thin and tarnished... other than doing some valve work, I left it exactly as found because it has so much character but they're buttery smooth now, good compression, and I can *feel* the trumpet resonate when I play.
4:15 ahhhhhhhh it hurt
Nice! Would you do it with a flugelhorn?
Wow, that actually sounds good for something that was created by attacking two trumpets with blowtorches, hacksaws, and flat files. I'm not hearing any air leakage. Has a full, rich sound, and for a non-trumpet-player, your trumpet playing sounds pretty good. A lot better than I could do. (I tried playing a trumpet once; sounded like a cross between a cow farting and an eagle screeching.)
His fabrication skills have apparently increased as his weight has decreased.
Excuse my language, but this video kicked ass. Thank you so much for showing the work and process involved in this. It really came out sounding wonderful. Ya'oughta patent it and get Jin Bao to produce it!
suggestion: make a french c tuba out of two euphoniums and some tubing
it also was a roaring video :)
For a trumpet would have loved to hear how the biggest question/problem of high range was addressed?
Dude that was so cool! It was so intune, which may have just been the players fault but hey I'm just gonna go with it works. Excellent content.
Very interesting video! So how come 4 valve B flat trumpets aren't common?
probably because the trumpet is a soprano instrument, so Bb, C, Eb, (Bb/A/Ab) piccolo, etc trumpets are always the highest in the brass family. a fourth valve only increases range down by a perfect fourth (2 and a half steps), which is in a register that tenor/alto horns and trombones/euphoniums traditionally play. i guess people are just used to the register that a 4-valve Bb trumpet can play being played by tenor/alto horns and trombones. stomvi makes very very high quality instruments, among them a few models of 4-valve Bb trumpets
@@jojnokirk8035 lots of opportunity for better in tune alternate fingerings. Plus a more focused sound in the low register then some of the more unwieldy alto brass.
Awesome. I've got a tenor horn from the 1890s which is in high pitch, so I have wondered whether as part of a conversion to low pitch, a non-compensating 4th valve would be possible to add. However, this is way out of my skill set and I wouldn't know where to find parts to make this happen.
All you need to convert a HP horn to LP is longer slides. You typically don't have to alter the main body of the instrument at all. Then you even have the option of putting the original slides back in, if you ever _needed_ a HP horn.
Who’s this handsome devil?
I have a four valve flugelhorn and it's 4th valve is off centered but the wrong way so I can barely play it with my pinky
It fucking broke like right after I posted this and it was only 140 usd dollars because it was the finest (/j)Indian made one so not a big loss
I hadn’t watched your videos for half a year, and I am VERY surprised by your looking changed well…!
It’s amazing how everything just slides off
Yea brass instruments are put together with solder since welding wouldn't really work for keeping the tubing intact
They make 4 Valve Trumpets
Actually, if the video was unpublished, we WOULDN'T have known the project was an abject failure!
Love your videos!
I did this with 2 Chinese trumpets. One was already a c trumpet so I needed to do a lot more work on 4th valve(and measuring). Worked pretty well but the horns were too cheap to make it any good so it was trashed in the end. I would say for future projects invest in a buff wheel and bench grinder and or just the buff compound itself and use strips of old t shirt to clean up burnt lacquer and unwanted solder and if you want to do it again I say get 2 of the same horn so you don’t have the one valve higher problem. I want to do it again and use 2 olds ambassador trumpets because 1. They’re cheap2. Very good quality for the price3. I can reuse a lot of parts if it doesn’t turn out well
Also if you want it to look good without a ton of extra work, you probably should start with silver-plated instruments. It's a pretty simple matter to brush-plate silver over your work marks afterward, which is a whole lot easier than a full re-lacquer. If you have your heart set on a gold tint, a bottle of gold plating solution (to put on top of the silver) is about $40.
A really good idea that worked! Time to celebrate!
What does the 4th valve do?
What’s the point of the fourth valve?
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Oh, hitting that low concert-Eb on a descending major arpeggio must feel nice! Always bugged me that the standard trumpets can't hit that note, given how prominent the key of concert-F is on a standard trumpet!
This is awesome
Hello everyone, I have an interesting idea with tuba. My idea is, since I don't have money for sousaphone but I have a Soviet Helicon I think to unsolder the Bell from the helicon, add a knee and a Bell from the Sousaphone. out handmade rotor Sousaphone)) but I'm afraid that through the knee and the big bell it will be very low in tune. and if you take Es helicon then it will be high in tune .. I want Sousaphone to have a Bb system but I'm hesitant because of that, what do you think?
check out a trpt player and band leader from the seventies by the name of Don Ellis. He had a trumpet engineered by Getzen with 4 valves. It was in fact a 1/4 tone trumpet. He also had a very interesting band. Wrote the music for the movie French Connection too!
Cool stuff!
Every time I was one of your video I find myself staring at the solo horn on the wall... I want one of those so bad but they're so hard to find
Does increasing the tubing and/or valves give it lower pitches?
That's awesome (I actually said it audibly in my empty den for no one). I really wasn't sure what you were going to come up with, but it wasn't that. Also I didn't expect ot to be in tune.
i could use that silver trumpet my guy
Wow, those soldering skillz 🎺
damn i was hoping it would be microtonal
I think there are people who've made a 24-EDO and 19-EDO 4 valve trumpet.
Get a Firebird and be as microtonal as you want. :)
Hi Trent, did you use a ferrule to attach the (fourth valve) to the third and how much did you cut form the lead pipe for tuning sake?
Are these compensating valves? Just kidding.
Great, now I want one!! Actually, I've wanted one since I saw the Lotus Trumpet.
Trumpet go peep
Here you say that your main instrument is the Euphonium. I always thought it was the trombone. But then, you can have more than one main instrument after all.
Havent watched your videos in a looong time, Trent. You're looking great!
Pretty Outstanding Well Done!!!
Yo that's pretty cool actually
Looks so weird but so cool
I have so many questions - I’m a bass player and I guess this is no different than making a 5 or 6 string bass
A low-cost Stomvi Titan? Stomvi's 4th valve drops the pitch a 4th.
Don Ellis would be proud. Although the extension is not for microtones
As a horn player myself I want a trumpet with a trigger it would help it get louder and the high register would be easier to play
have you considered... a piccolo trumpet?
How did you get the 4th value to work that’s amazing