My trumpet.

After calling Jim Becker at Osmun Music on the advice of Trent Austin and asked him about my options...I played many a Monette trumpet while living in the Pacific Northwest and even had a friend who went on to work for Dave at the factory...anyways, back to the horn.
I told Jim that I was looking for a horn similiar to the monette 993...a dark, big, broad tone that will still leave me some flexibility in the upper register...I sent him the horn and he rebuilt the valves stripping the original chrome and replating them to hard nickel (like getzen)...He then drew me one of his leadpipes that matched my bell and bent me a slide...he also retro fitted my old slide so that I could still use it.
I will post later on how it plays as this is getting long...but I will say it plays GREAT!!! Jim Becker is a master at his trade and is VERY good at taking what I told him I wanted and putting it to brass...I could not be more pleased and can not recommend Osmun's music enough...My horn will NEVER go any where else...
And now for some pics of another horn I bought recently: a 1939 Blessing Artist....what a great horn! this horn has just the right amount of resistance and has a great upper register...I bought this horn as a back up as it has obviously been taken care of/ sat in a closet for 50 years unplayed...(check out the original leather case) but find my self playing it more and more.