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Trumpet For A Dummy

  • 09-04-2006 7:23pm
    #1
    rcaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭


    Hey, I want to start playing the trumpet, but I have absolutely no clue where to begin. I figured the first thing I'd need would be a trumpet (Well done, I know), I was wondering if there are any brands to look out for or any shops that might help me, or anything else like that to look out for. Thanks.

    El Pr0n


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  • #2
    jimi_t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    When in doubt, Thomann.

    http://www.thomann.de/thoiw6_thomann_tr6_bbtrompete_prodinfo.html

    Generic own brand stuff, cheap as chips.


  • #3
    rcaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    Deadly, nice one.


  • #4
    legologic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭legologic


    Great place to go have a look is Paul Ryan instruments in temple bar. It's up a bit towards dame st. from the IFI on the same side of the road as the IFI. I got a Beautiful Jupiter trumpet there bout a year and a half back, and it wasn't overly expensive for the quality I got.

    I think the main things to look out for are the metal the trumpet is made of and the metal the lead pipe is made out of. I think the silver trumpets are more suited to classical orchestral kind of playing where the brass are a bit more all-rounder. The lead pipe is the pipe going from the mouthpiece to the first bend. Mines made of rose-brass, which is supposed to give it a warmer tone.

    Yer man Paul Ryan, if ya catch him, is sound as, tho' he'd talk the ear off a donkey! He got me the number for lessons with a guy in my area and everything!


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