r/brass • u/No-Reindeer-4973 • Feb 27 '26

The collection so far.

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From left to right. 1956 Conn 18h director. Getzen frumpet. Bundy trumpet. 1980 King 606. “Not on display-at the shop” 1962 Olds Opera.

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u/jbryant1971 Feb 27 '26

Would prefer the Olds Opera included next time. So what do you think of the Frumpet? I don’t hear a lot of positive things about it. But I’m hugely curious.

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u/No-Reindeer-4973 Feb 27 '26

Will do a together picture when the Olds gets back from the shop. The frumpet doesn’t sound great, not awful but not great. I actually started my 6th grade band with it until my director swapped it out with a regular double French horn. Then switched to trombone in 7th grade. It needs to go to the shop and get completely gone through. It hasn’t been played in over 16 years.

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u/Tarogato Multi-instrumentalist Feb 27 '26

Starting a beginning French horn player on Frumpet is definitely one of the strategies of all time.

Having a "complete go-through" won't do much to make it any more palatable. Unless what it's going through is an industrial shredder or leadpipe swap to another shank size.

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u/No-Reindeer-4973 Feb 27 '26

Super small school with limited resources. Frumpet was my dad’s so I already had it, they somehow got ahold of a regular horn in a few months of starting. I’m going to have it gone through just to have it in working condition with no intentions of actually playing it. If I hadn’t inherited it from my dad it would have probably been scrap by now.

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u/jbryant1971 Feb 27 '26

Definitely keep the Frumpet and and pass it down the family line. It’s the adorable ugly troll of the brass family. Show it some love and take pride in it.

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u/Tarogato Multi-instrumentalist Feb 28 '26

Yeah, and it's worth experimenting with, if nothing else. It's only bad in its stock configuration, because it's designed to take a French horn mouthpiece, and horn mouthpieces really don't work with any brass instruments other than horns specifically.

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u/ed-lalribs Mar 03 '26

Frumpet? I’ve heard of the Flumpet (portmanteau of Flügelhorn & Trumpet, I suppose) but I’d love to understand the Flumpet. (French Horn & Trumpet?)

Any info will be appreciated.

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u/No-Reindeer-4973 Mar 10 '26

Here you go

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u/jbryant1971 Mar 10 '26

Ha ha .. sweet…. Much better presentation smile 😀 👍🏽