trumpetWoo-hoo, got my new trumpet last night. It’s a Conn International with a rose brass leadpipe and yellow brass bell. Although it’s only a student model it comes with a first valve saddle and a third valve slide ring.

I collected it at a rehearsal of City Brass, a brass ensemble I play in, and the first thing I needed to do was oil the valves. I duly did this reinserted the valves and tried to play but couldn’t get any air through. It turns out that, unlike the cornet, the valve guides on a trumpet will fit in one of two ways (only one of which is correctly aligned) and of course I’d got all three wrong!

Just need to get a new mouthpiece to match my cornet mouthpiece ( a Bach 3B ) and we’re away.