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nextbandjesus · High C Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 73 Location: Midwest

I am thinking about getting a few old beater horns and making myself an odd kind of trumpet. What methods would I use for pieceing together the parts? Solder? Torch? Duct tape? (jk) Any advise or past experiences would be appreciated.
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TrumpetChat · Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:

I've been doing a bit of that myself. What you would use is a brazer. It's basically a welder but at a lower temperature and it melts brass. Good Luck.
Chris

nextbandjesus · High C Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 73 Location: Midwest

Chris,

What kind of modification are you doing? What I want to attempt is to make my own Firebird. Cool Smiley

Or a C/Bb with a switch to change it back and forth between them. Or maybe a D with interchangable leadpipes and slides for switching to C and Bb. So many ideas... :idea:
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TrumpetChat · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject:

I made my own herald trumpet, and have been thinking of making a soprano trombone. To convert a Bb to C:
All slides, and potentially the bell, will need to be shortened slightly to get it in tune. The Bb bell will emphasize the wrong resonance series, but that probably won't matter. Once you get the leadpipe and slides cut to size, you might have a horn worth experimenting on...

Doing it probably isn't all that hard, but doing it well may be...