For Sale: Bachalone Trumpet in D / D flat

I'm offering for sale my "Bachalone" trumpet in D and D-flat. Plays great. Sounds great. Great shape.

I had it made around 1986. Bob Malone was gaining worldwide fame with his adaptations of C trumpets, by cutting them down to E-flat trumpets (with his famous S-shaped custom leadpipes), that could also be played in D by using an alternate tuning slide. Such an instrument (in Eb/D) was played by Håkan Hardenberger on his well-known first CD (1986).

My trumpet started as a Bach large-bore C trumpet. My teacher, Rob Roy McGregor (then of the LA Philharmonic Orchestra), recommended I have Bob make mine in the keys of D and D-flat. I had a nice Schilke D/E-flat, so I didn't need another E-flat trumpet, and there are a few orchestra parts that work nicely on a D-flat trumpet, if only you have one, which almost no one does.

You can see it here in D, with the slightly longer D-flat slide alongside. It also has a "tone-ring" on the third valve. I liked it that way, so the tone ring comes with. The trumpet is not lacquered. Raw brass.

Bell is 229. Lead pipe is MC2S (Malone C2, S-shape). Serial number in the 221xxx series. It has a Bob Reeves valve alignment.

Since it was cut down from a C trumpet, it plays much more like a C trumpet than regular D trumpets. Great for playing D trumpet in an orchestra. Switch out the D tuning slide with the D-flat tuning slide, and you have a D-flat trumpet for special occasions.

I have five D trumpets with valves, and six more without valves. Some people have said this might be more than I need, so I'm selling this one. Actually, I'm also selling a long-bell Bach D trumpet. The three that will remain will suit me fine.

$2,900.00, shipped to CONUS.

Contact: ray@raymondburkhart.com

Interested SoCal locals can come test it.

For Sale: Piccolo Trumpet in C "Meister Andreas Bergmann"

UPDATE: SOLD.

This piccolo trumpet in C is one of two that I own, and believe it or not, I don't need two piccs in C. Hard to believe, I know. I'm keeping my Yamaha C picc and selling this. It has a gorgeous sound, and interestingly -- unlike other rotary valve piccolo trumpets I've played -- I can easily hold this trumpet steady and still.

It's marked "Meister Andreas Bergmann" on the bell, which I assume is the maker, but I've never found information on such a maker online. If you find anything, please share.

It all works beautifully. I don't see any dings or dents. Lacquer finish. There is one odd thing, though. The mouthpiece receiver will receive a US-style mouthpiece, but not much of it. Set up that way, I find the trumpet plays flat. But I have other European-made trumpets that are not designed to use a US-style trumpet mouthpiece shank shape, so this isn't a surprise for me. (And no, cornet mouthpieces don't work, either.) My Yamaha C picc also receives, just barely, a US-shaped trumpet mouthpiece shank, but it also cannot be brought up to pitch. So, I had John Mason -- a local brass specialist -- cut down and reshape the shanks on a couple of trumpet mouthpieces to fit the receiver on the mouthpipe on this instrument (and the Yamaha C pic). I'll include one of those mouthpieces in the sale of this trumpet, if the buyer wants it. It's a Yamaha 14B4, which is what I normally play on piccolo, but with the shank shortened and the taper altered to fit.

For me and other players, a piccolo trumpet in C is an ideal instrument on which to play JS Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto. For one thing, the top A (on a Bb piccolo trumpet), -- the highest note in Brandenburg 2 -- is a G on the C piccolo, thus an open note on the harmonic series of the instrument, and it just speaks more easily and reliably.

$1,400.00, shipped to CONUS.

Contact: ray@raymondburkhart.com

Interested SoCal locals can come test it.