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Does anyone have any more info/pics of Bobo's contrabass trumpet?

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SF

I used to have this horn-

http://www.contrabass.com/pages/cbtp.html

Perhaps not technically the most trumpet like low horn out there... It was fun regardless and had more core than a semi truck full of apples.
For someone looking to make one, I think a bass trombone bell (as on Bobo's) is a better idea, perhaps even a 9" tweener bell. I think mine had a small baritone bell (probably a marcher).

Bob Kolada wrote:I used to have this horn-

http://www.contrabass.com/pages/cbtp.html

Perhaps not technically the most trumpet like low horn out there... It was fun regardless and had more core than a semi truck full of apples.
For someone looking to make one, I think a bass trombone bell (as on Bobo's) is a better idea, perhaps even a 9" tweener bell. I think mine had a small baritone bell (probably a marcher).

Bob, what mouthpiece did you use on yours?

Here is a picture of Bobo's F trumpet. As a comparison, I have "put together" another F instrument using a baritone body. The Bobo trumpet is more cylindrical, and in my opinion, closer to a true trumpet. The Bobo trumpet is a really stuffy instrument to play.

Using the Bobo trumpet as a guide, I have made another also in F. Since I had the parts, I decided that having 4 inline pistons would be better than a 4th rotor.

This horn plays just like the Bobo Trumpet.

Wow. That is cool.

I think I usually used a contrabone mp on mine. Someone ought to pressure Kanstul to make their 3 valve G bugles, or at least the smallest one, in F as well.

Cool horn Tim! Got ergobone?