Description
Bach 1951 Mercedes B♭ Trumpet Outfit USED
This trumpet is used but in excellent condition! It shows minor cosmetic wear from normal use and age, including some marks on the main slide. Please see images for appearance. The instrument has been sanitized, lubricated, and inspected to ensure proper playability and functionality. It will be gone over again by our in-house techs before it ships out.
Comes with case, 10 ½ mouthpiece, mute, and valve oil.
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Musicians who are not yet prepared to pay a premium price for a true professional instrument can get the same foundation for good musicianship in a Mercedes or Mercedes II instrument. These models were created specifically to make Vincent Bach’s acoustic designs available at prices within a student's limited means.
Naturally, it would be impossible to do this by making any compromises in his designs, so every Mercedes and Mercedes II model follows the patterns worked out by Mr. Bach. Thus the playing qualities of these moderately priced brasses reflected Mr. Bach’s skill in their intonation, resistance, and timbre.
It is possible to make Mercedes brasses available at moderate prices by using machines instead of handwork on some of their construction details. For example, their bells, like those on most other manufacturers’ brass instruments, are made from two pieces, brazed together and spun, while the Bach Stradivarius bells are handmade from single sheets of brass.
Some of the materials, structural components, and assembly methods used in Mercedes II brasses are more conventional than in the costlier Bach Stradivarius and Mercedes models. For example, the valve pistons of Mercedes II trumpets and cornets are nickel-plated nickel silver instead of Monel metal. Nickel silver pistons cost less.
There are a number of other minor structural differences among the three models, all of them illustrated and tabulated for direct comparison on these two pages. Together, they account for the differences in price. But do they, together, account for a difference in performance? Well, Bach Stradivarius brasses are unique; that is why they are virtually standard equipment among professional artists. Any student who has progressed to the point where he can hear, feel and take advantage of their unique qualities will be happy to pay the premium price for a Strad. On the other hand, Mercedes and Mercedes II models give their owners all but the ultimate refinements of the finest brass instruments ever made, at significantly lower prices.
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