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.
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