Trumpet, B-flat
Maker
Andrew Taylor
Date1995
Place MadeNorwich, England, Europe
ModelBlues Boy
Serial No.E 16423
SignednoneMarkingsApplied gold letters on bell: Blues Boy
Engraved inside bottom valve cap of third valve: E 16423
Stamped on valve stems, respectively: 1, 2, 3DescriptionNickel-plated brass with purple-tinted lacquer (body), clear-lacquered brass (slide bows and third-valve pull-ring), red lacquer (finger buttons and valve caps), clear-lacquered nickel-silver (outer slides), single loop, main tuning slide at first bow, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside hollow stem, alignment by one key on plastic spring anchor plate, nickel-silver-plated brass pistons, single water key at main tuning slide, trigger with pull-ring at third valve, windway 3-2-1.Massive red-lacquered brass mouthpiece.
This trumpet (nicknamed "Blues Boy") was exhibited at the 1996 International Trumpet Guild Convention in Long Beach, California. It has a very wide bell throat, inspired by David Monette’s flumpet (a cross between a flugelhorn and a trumpet). The overall proportion of conical tubing is also greater than in a normal trumpet, resulting in a darker, warmer sound. Later, Andy Taylor developed this type into the "Phat Boy" series, “a big, phat, huge, thick sounding trumpet” (Taylor). Andy Taylor has made one instrument of this type for Gregory Davis, Miles Davis’s son: “He wanted what his dad would have bought now, and that also pays homage to his father” (Taylor).
DimensionsHeight: 477 mm
Tube length: 1338 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 10.9 mm, 9.1 mm, 12 mm, 11.98 mm (0.472 inches)
Bell diameter: 123 mm (4 7/8 inches)
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Andrew Taylor, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07225
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