Saw an episode (rerun) yesterday (01 August 2014) where Mike & Frank bought a pile of old instruments for about $200, including an upright baritone, a sousaphone, a tenor sax, and a trumpet. The instruments had been decorations in a restaurant.
Saw an episode (rerun) yesterday (01 August 2014) where Mike & Frank bought a pile of old instruments for about $200, including an upright baritone, a sousaphone, a tenor sax, and a trumpet. The instruments had been decorations in a restaurant.
My 1918 Hawkes & Son hung in an eatery for over 30 years, luckily all they did to it was use a wire to hold it and got white paint splashes on it.
Cleaned up and polished, it still plays.
Dennis
Rick Floyd
Miraphone 5050 - Warburton BJ / RF mpc
YEP-641S (recently sold)
Doug Elliott - 102 rim; I-cup; I-9 shank
"Always play with a good tone, never louder than lovely, never softer than supported." - author unknown.
Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches
El Cumbanchero (Raphael Hernandez, arr. Naohiro Iwai)
Chorale and Shaker Dance (John Zdechlik)
David Bjornstad
1923 Conn New Wonder 86I, Bach 6 1/2 AL
2018 Wessex EP100 Dolce, Denis Wick 4ABL
2013 Jinbao JBEP-1111L, Denis Wick 4AM
2015 Jinbao JBBR-1240, Denis Wick clone mouthpiece of unknown designation
Cullman (AL) Community Band (Euph Section Leader)
Brass Band of Huntsville (2nd Bari)
My wife is a Cracker Barrel addict. On vacations, rule #1 is only ONE Cracker Barrel visit per day. A few years ago we took my dad to visit his brother in North Carolina. 2000 miles (round trip) on I-40. There are probably 200 CBs on that route.
I've only seen one very sad trumpet on the walls of a Cracker Barrel. I think that 90+% of their "antiques" are simply manufactured to look old. The trumpet was sad because of the screw holding it to the wall.
There is a trumpet screwed (literally) to the wall as well at the CB in the I-10 @ Chandler Blvd. Ahwatukee (Phoenix).
I don't think it plays......LOL
DDG