My Favorite Vintage Trumpet! The 1942 Buescher 400 225 True Tone Model - ACB Show and Tell.

[Link in description] My favorite Vintage Trumpet! The 1942 Buescher 400 225 True Tone model ACB Show and Tell


What a beast of a horn this is! Sadly I have decided to sell it, I'm working on a new custom horn with Adams and my policy is one horn in, one horn out. Here's the listing:
https://www.austincustombrass.biz/bue...

Think about all the fancy modern horns and their claims of innovation. While yes there are some very great ones can you imagine a company taking all the time and effort that this horn took? And to think that 78 years after manufacture it's still a magnificent instrument that holds up well with any horn on the market! This is one from my own personal collection and while I am stuck home I thought I'd share a brief clip of it. You can tell how much I love it!

Don't know about this horn? Never seen it?

Buescher "400" Model 225 / 224
Sold from 1939 until (about) 1956

Some noteable features on this Model
1) Valve block is soldered directly to the leadpipe and bell.
2) Wonderfully engraved bell logo
3) Brass with Nickel Silver Trim
4) Reverse Wrap
5) Bottom caps and Top Caps are internally threaded so they screw INTO the valve block, this is a feature NOT found on many (if any) other trumpet models
6) Flared out bottoms of Valve Tubes (sexiest block ever)
7) Curved water keys
8) Direct air column design (notice all three valve slides on one side of this horn!

225 was considered a "Large" bore (now a ML bore) and the 224 was listed as a "Medium bore".

225 measures 0.455" at 2nd slide

We also have some other great Vintage Buescher trumpets (including a few 225 models) for sale at our shop:

https://www.austincustombrass.biz/sea...


I'm using the following mouthpieces on this clip:

ACB MV3CS with acrylic rim for most of the clip
ACB TA-Z with acrylic rim for the commercial clips

For more info go to:
https://www.austincustombrass.biz/mpcs/

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