In my school we had a girl with dwarfism who played on a mini trumpet because it was the right size for her. Always nice to see these niche instruments getting attention.
Don't know if this is wrong, but I'd love to see a whole orchestra of mini instruments and those of smaller stature enough to play them to the fullest.
Humm I play sax and clarinet, but going to learn trumpet now... I also paly guitar, and violin and harmonica. But it all started with the saxophone so I guess that heart I'm kind of a woodwind, please don't throw your trumpet at me.
One trumpet player I worked with a lot called his pocket trumpet a "glove box horn". Any time he was stuck waiting in his car, and sometimes even while waiting at red lights, he'd pick it up and practice. This also meant that he arrived for gigs already mostly warmed up. He would absolutely love this.
@@hirokokueh3541 that's basically what a flugabone / "marching valve trombone" is. It's not much bigger than and looks like a beefier mellophone, but is identical to a bass trumpet or a valve trombone in bore and length.
When I was in 5th grade I was lugging this hard trumpet case around bruising my leg and was cumbersome. This mini trumpet would be perfect for young students!! It sounds fantastic, and nice padded pack.... another great show, Mr. Hamilton!
"The sort of thing you could throw at a woodwind player, and the wouldn't get harmed very much." This comment is what sold it for me! 🤣I subscribed instantly without any hesitation loooooolllll!
I have the Carol Brass mini in the Black Hawk finish. It is fun to play/practice when you can’t carry a full sized trumpet. I chose the Black Hawk finish because my original Carol Brass pocket is in the same finish. There is just something about the black nickel finish with gold trim. Another accessory for the mini is The Carol Brass Ante Mute. It is a bell extension that slides into the bell like a mute providing a larger bell which brings the tone down a bit. They don’t, or at least didn’t make the Ante Mute in the Black Hawk finish when I purchased it last year, but it actually looks nice with the gold finish hanging out of the black nickel horn. The Ante Mute also allows the use of full sized mutes. Thank you Trent for reviewing this one. And as everyone else has commented, you look great.
I have one of those and I really like it . I totally agree with you, the pocket Bb must be as small is possible,a professional musician never will use this horn in a real gig but when the holidays time comes you need the smallest oppion to have with you to keep your options in shape. I believe that little lady is the most successful horn that Carol brass have made. Great review!!!
I've waited so long for this video! I actually own one of those since last year and i love it too! It plays very well and the build quality is indeed surprisingly good. The only negative thing i have to say is that the register below the low c is basically not usable, because of really bad intonation and tone quality down there. But when do you really need to play that low anyway? I use it as a practice-instrument for travelling and the main point for me was the extremely tiny case! I can take it anywhere i want without having to carry an extra trumpet case, because it basically always fits into the bag i have with me anyways... So if you're looking for an instrument for that purpose, i can only recommend this one ;)
It's been a while since I've binged your videos (I guess RUclips doesn't want to recommend your stuff, even tho I'm subbed), and I was shocked to see how great you're looking! I don't know what kind of workouts and such that you've been doing, but keep it up!
3rd time "was" charming least here on your channel. I am not a musician. I am an addictive person who is glad we're both happy with this video! Of all the interesting hobbies/ I've spent thousands of U.S. dollars on, music has been the most challenging. To see a good new'ish product is very interesting.
Thanks for the review Trent - love your work. I replaced my Yum-Cha brand PoS with one of these a few months back and am very happy with it. Only problem is that some mutes (i.e. Wallace practice mute) don't fit so well. The previous el-cheapo pocket has done a lot of travel, sometimes wrapped in a t-shirt to avoid the space taken up by its case. The mini pocket is so small that I can always find space for it my luggage. Now if only the travel situation would get back to something like normal...
That's a beautiful instrument! I'd want one myself, except that the issue I have isn't so much size as weight. A metal trumpet or other brass instrument is just too darned heavy. I have a severe neck injury that limits how much I can lift and how long I can hold it. I can lift and hold a standard trumpet, but the span of time I have to play it is very short, measured in minutes. Maybe 10 minutes, then my neck starts to seriously hurt. That's not long enough to really play much of anything, and if my neck starts to hurt, it cascades through my body, making me miserable. (This is what happens when you break your neck, then the repairs grow a forest of sharp bone spurs in your spine. It has been the bane of my existence since 2006.) I get around this with, I kid you not, plastic instruments. The Tromba full-size trumpet weighs half what a standard brass trumpet does, so I can play it much longer without pain. Even though it's plastic, it has good enough sound for my purposes. There is some metal in a Tromba, notably the valves are metal lined and coated, and instead of a plastic mouthpiece I use a metal one. I saved my old Jet-Tone from my Olds NL-10 I gave to a student about 20-25 years ago. I also have a Nuvo JHorn that's fun to play, reminding me of the Altohorn. Yes, it's a kids' instrument, but adults can play them just fine. The JSax is a lot of fun too. I have two shakuhachis made of different plastic/resin materials, and they sound just like a bamboo instrument but costs 1/10th as much and is 10X the durability. That horn sounds absolutely gorgeous. It's not thin so much as shifting low-end vibrations up into higher registers. It's the difference between a male voice, let's say, and a female voice on the same notes. The low-end register is less for a female voice because those low end resonances are instead up in higher registers. There's just as much fullness and intonation, it's just the equalization is different. I hope the manufacturer does very well with it!
Awh cute. I'd be tempted by one, except one is more expensive than my current monthly income... Plus I kinda want my next instrument to either be an Eb tuba or a contrabass trom.
Absolutely excellent review, and I am not saying because this is I wished to hear about this little gem. You seem to emphasize "practice" could it not stand its own on a gig? Also. does it really have the same length of tubing as a full size trumpet? Really? Maybe smaller diameter? Its seems impossible. Wish you had sample some Low C (and lower) does it stay stable and in tune down there? Cheers, a
EDIT: Hang on, can you not tune the first valve? It looks braced in place. Were I to actually pick up something smaller/higher than the nuvo J-horn you got me to buy, it would probably be this. As someone who started on tuba as a youngin', I find it easier to play high on instruments with more resistance. I've had the pleasure of trying out both a normal and pocket trumpet before and found the pocket easier to get passable notes out of where the normal one I had trouble getting anything but pedal tones.
If anyone else got a J-horn because of this madman, possible tip: get a metal mouthpiece (I use a mellophone one but alto/tenor horn might also work), and play it like a french horn with your left hand on valves and right hand in the bell.
I really want to have a trumpet even though it's used as long as it can be used, I want to buy it but I realize I come from a simple family and maybe I have more important needs
Is it true that a pocket trumpet is, by nature, out of tune with itself? That's how my friends used to explain the rather odd and idiosyncratic tuning of Don Cherry's pocket trumpet playing.
@@TrentHamilton That's good to know. Maybe the reality was that Don Cherry was, at that time, using a substandard-quality Pakistani-made pocket trumpet with poor intonation--at least that is what I have heard. There are some maqam Rast-like intervals (such as a c. 350-cent neutral third above the tonic) in this famous track, for example. v=DNbD1JIH344
And they are nonfattening, play them and lose weight, until the next crisis manifests itself, then start eating again, the cycle of perfect fifths........TOWER of POWER.............'What is hip?..........
In my school we had a girl with dwarfism who played on a mini trumpet because it was the right size for her. Always nice to see these niche instruments getting attention.
Don't know if this is wrong, but I'd love to see a whole orchestra of mini instruments and those of smaller stature enough to play them to the fullest.
Or people 6ft + playing tiny instruments
@@bowwing333 a childrens orchestra?
@@lelotz uh...🤦...yeah. That would work too
@@bowwing333 the issue comes with the woodwinds. Can't really make the Contrabassoon much smaller.
"The sort of thing that you will throw to a woodwind player and the instrument wouldn't get harmed very much"😂😂
"...TO a woodwind player..." ? or 'AT' ? ;)
I feel attached lol
I want to like this comment but I also don't want to break your perfect 69 likes XD
You look great Trent, you look 20 years younger
Twenty years younger? Well, he looks at least 20 pounds lighter. 👌 😉
would put him at about 10 years old 😂👍
Stop the cap
@@sub2me543 he straight up looks like a new man. I'm glad to see him looking and probably feeling better.
As a brass player 2:36 captures the attitude towards woodwinds perfectly
They're better than strings
@@bisneytm1511 correction worse
@@the_worst_youtuber_ever8583 no they're better
As a bassoonist I identify as a trombone.
Humm I play sax and clarinet, but going to learn trumpet now... I also paly guitar, and violin and harmonica. But it all started with the saxophone so I guess that heart I'm kind of a woodwind, please don't throw your trumpet at me.
One trumpet player I worked with a lot called his pocket trumpet a "glove box horn". Any time he was stuck waiting in his car, and sometimes even while waiting at red lights, he'd pick it up and practice. This also meant that he arrived for gigs already mostly warmed up. He would absolutely love this.
If they made a piccolo trumpet version, you could quite easily swallow the instrument
and think about a bass trumpet version, probably gonna be the best alternative of marching baritone
You could lose it between your sofa cushions
suitable for ages >3, choking hazard
It would be the size of a chicken nugget tbh
@@hirokokueh3541 that's basically what a flugabone / "marching valve trombone" is. It's not much bigger than and looks like a beefier mellophone, but is identical to a bass trumpet or a valve trombone in bore and length.
I havent watched you for a while, man you really slimmed up! Good on you!
2:35 im dead ☠️😂😂 Sax player turned trumpeter, and I don’t disagree
When I was in 5th grade I was lugging this hard trumpet case around bruising my leg and was cumbersome. This mini trumpet would be perfect for young students!! It sounds fantastic, and nice padded pack.... another great show, Mr. Hamilton!
"The sort of thing you could throw at a woodwind player, and the wouldn't get harmed very much."
This comment is what sold it for me! 🤣I subscribed instantly without any hesitation loooooolllll!
my favorite parts when he says"you could throw this at a woodwind player and the instrument wouldn't get harmed very much..." lol love that
I have the Carol Brass mini in the Black Hawk finish. It is fun to play/practice when you can’t carry a full sized trumpet. I chose the Black Hawk finish because my original Carol Brass pocket is in the same finish. There is just something about the black nickel finish with gold trim.
Another accessory for the mini is The Carol Brass Ante Mute. It is a bell extension that slides into the bell like a mute providing a larger bell which brings the tone down a bit. They don’t, or at least didn’t make the Ante Mute in the Black Hawk finish when I purchased it last year, but it actually looks nice with the gold finish hanging out of the black nickel horn. The Ante Mute also allows the use of full sized mutes.
Thank you Trent for reviewing this one. And as everyone else has commented, you look great.
I have one of those and I really like it .
I totally agree with you, the pocket Bb must be as small is possible,a professional musician never will use this horn in a real gig but when the holidays time comes you need the smallest oppion to have with you to keep your options in shape.
I believe that little lady is the most successful horn that Carol brass have made.
Great review!!!
Trent I've been following your channel for a few years now but just tuned in for the first time in a while, I have to say you look great!
Hey Trent, you look great!
I can't tell if it's because he shaved or because he lost weight. It could be both tho.
I've waited so long for this video! I actually own one of those since last year and i love it too! It plays very well and the build quality is indeed surprisingly good. The only negative thing i have to say is that the register below the low c is basically not usable, because of really bad intonation and tone quality down there. But when do you really need to play that low anyway? I use it as a practice-instrument for travelling and the main point for me was the extremely tiny case! I can take it anywhere i want without having to carry an extra trumpet case, because it basically always fits into the bag i have with me anyways... So if you're looking for an instrument for that purpose, i can only recommend this one ;)
It's been a while since I've binged your videos (I guess RUclips doesn't want to recommend your stuff, even tho I'm subbed), and I was shocked to see how great you're looking! I don't know what kind of workouts and such that you've been doing, but keep it up!
3rd time "was" charming least here on your channel. I am not a musician. I am an addictive person who is glad we're both happy with this video! Of all the interesting hobbies/ I've spent thousands of U.S. dollars on, music has been the most challenging. To see a good new'ish product is very interesting.
Came back to this channel after a long time and holy crap you look so much more younger!
My god you look great!
It sounds really good. Another enjoyable review of an unusual brass instrument.
Thanks for the review Trent - love your work. I replaced my Yum-Cha brand PoS with one of these a few months back and am very happy with it. Only problem is that some mutes (i.e. Wallace practice mute) don't fit so well. The previous el-cheapo pocket has done a lot of travel, sometimes wrapped in a t-shirt to avoid the space taken up by its case. The mini pocket is so small that I can always find space for it my luggage. Now if only the travel situation would get back to something like normal...
If it’s a brand named after Yamcha, it can only be incompetent.
I now wonder if you could also downsize a tenor trombone by wrapping the slide around similarly to a contrabass, but with that tenor length of tubing.
Yes, the plastic Tromba jazzbone does this.
YEEEEEES! I was actually waiting for the day you review something from Carol brass
i have to appreciate the time on the video, when you see it
"Trumpet is so big, we need small trumpets!"
Peoples who plays euphonium: HAHA, YOU ARE TERRIBLE :D
Carol usually get good reviews, Dad's been a fan for quite a while now.
Is it just me or have you lost a lot of weight? You look healthy.
That's a beautiful instrument! I'd want one myself, except that the issue I have isn't so much size as weight. A metal trumpet or other brass instrument is just too darned heavy. I have a severe neck injury that limits how much I can lift and how long I can hold it. I can lift and hold a standard trumpet, but the span of time I have to play it is very short, measured in minutes. Maybe 10 minutes, then my neck starts to seriously hurt. That's not long enough to really play much of anything, and if my neck starts to hurt, it cascades through my body, making me miserable. (This is what happens when you break your neck, then the repairs grow a forest of sharp bone spurs in your spine. It has been the bane of my existence since 2006.)
I get around this with, I kid you not, plastic instruments. The Tromba full-size trumpet weighs half what a standard brass trumpet does, so I can play it much longer without pain. Even though it's plastic, it has good enough sound for my purposes. There is some metal in a Tromba, notably the valves are metal lined and coated, and instead of a plastic mouthpiece I use a metal one. I saved my old Jet-Tone from my Olds NL-10 I gave to a student about 20-25 years ago. I also have a Nuvo JHorn that's fun to play, reminding me of the Altohorn. Yes, it's a kids' instrument, but adults can play them just fine. The JSax is a lot of fun too. I have two shakuhachis made of different plastic/resin materials, and they sound just like a bamboo instrument but costs 1/10th as much and is 10X the durability.
That horn sounds absolutely gorgeous. It's not thin so much as shifting low-end vibrations up into higher registers. It's the difference between a male voice, let's say, and a female voice on the same notes. The low-end register is less for a female voice because those low end resonances are instead up in higher registers. There's just as much fullness and intonation, it's just the equalization is different. I hope the manufacturer does very well with it!
I am sorry to hear about your injury, but I am glad you got a solution!
If the build is that good, I wouldn’t waste it on a woodwind player’s noggin. Maybe a rock in the case.
Awh cute. I'd be tempted by one, except one is more expensive than my current monthly income... Plus I kinda want my next instrument to either be an Eb tuba or a contrabass trom.
YOU LOOK LIKE A DIFFERENT PERSON
I wish there was a pocket euphonium, or a tuba, I mean there is a Pocket tuba sorta, but I want it to literally fit in my pocket, imagine that
There are mini tubas that’s are much smaller
"the sort of the thing you could throw at wood wind player"2:35
There I was just about to ask will a hush mute fit. You didn't let me down thx ☺️
Trent , You sound absolutely great on trumpet ... What's the secret ?
Lunchbox trumpet!
What would be the difference between this and the sound of a cornet? I was thinking because of the smaller bell size, it would have that cornet sound.
who's that young handsome man on the screen
Seems a good option for when you need to sneak a trumpet into the theater in your handbag
Absolutely excellent review, and I am not saying because this is I wished to hear about this little gem. You seem to emphasize "practice" could it not stand its own on a gig?
Also. does it really have the same length of tubing as a full size trumpet? Really? Maybe smaller diameter? Its seems
impossible.
Wish you had sample some Low C (and lower) does it stay stable and in tune down there?
Cheers,
a
bro thats not a trumpet case , thats a lunchbox
Just ordered one
My man on his way from being contrabass trombone to being a piccolo trombone
i would always steal the sick to one of the bass clarinets
EDIT: Hang on, can you not tune the first valve? It looks braced in place.
Were I to actually pick up something smaller/higher than the nuvo J-horn you got me to buy, it would probably be this. As someone who started on tuba as a youngin', I find it easier to play high on instruments with more resistance. I've had the pleasure of trying out both a normal and pocket trumpet before and found the pocket easier to get passable notes out of where the normal one I had trouble getting anything but pedal tones.
If anyone else got a J-horn because of this madman, possible tip: get a metal mouthpiece (I use a mellophone one but alto/tenor horn might also work), and play it like a french horn with your left hand on valves and right hand in the bell.
Hi Trent,
Could you say us how you found the low register ? (I mean D and C# , and low F#, G , G# and A). Thanks a lot
Seemed to play pretty well all through the register.
I would love to see you review a Holton C150.
Very interesting. I think I'll get a Cornet instead of a Pocket Trumpet.
Those mini trumpet are cute xD
I have no music education. How hard is it to play this beautiful instrument?
The website says you can get it in C but I don't see how.
Now little people, previously called dwarfs can join the band.
Dwarves?! He’s in New Zealand. Don’t you mean hobbits?
wait, where’s trent?
Godamn it now i have to buy it
I am getting one THAT IS SO FUN
You played Whirlwind on an instrument that would be blown away with a fart
Wow! You make me want one.
I've been gone a while. Looks like Trent has lost quite a bit of weight. Bully for him!
Where is the mini tuba?
Nice video! You also look good.
I wanted to look for the price, but unfortunately it seems to be offered nowhere
Hi Trent - I can't get the discount code to work, is it still active?
WOW you have slimmed down! You look great!
Why the quality is different with usually inexperienced chinese made trumpet? That is because this mini trumpet is from Taiwan, not China
The pocket pocket trumpet
2:36 focusing on the important things.
2:34 perfect
What about putting the mouth peice in the case
The discount code isn’t working anymore 😢
I really want to have a trumpet even though it's used as long as it can be used, I want to buy it but I realize I come from a simple family and maybe I have more important needs
darn, that thing is still too big. sounds pretty good though.
The problem with this as a practice is that you still have to have the arbans
I havent been watching your video's for a while but looks like you lost a lot of weight, well done man
Why haven't you been watching my videos???
Looking for the link and coupon, thanks!
I see it comes with its own mouthpiece. Can one use a standard 7C trumpet mouthpiece with the mini trumpet? 😒
Yes :)
It comes with a plastic mouthpiece (not great) but fits a standard trumpet mpc.
@@TrentHamilton Thanks. This is the perfect size trumpet for road trips and for carry on luggage. 👍 😊
@@tjmadass878 Thanks for the info. By the looks from the video clip, the mouthpiece looked like it was made of plastic.
2:35 Oh you son of a . . .
This is a copy of the old Holton pocket trumpet.
Is it true that a pocket trumpet is, by nature, out of tune with itself? That's how my friends used to explain the rather odd and idiosyncratic tuning of Don Cherry's pocket trumpet playing.
No. Decent pocket trumpets are more or less in tune.
@@TrentHamilton That's good to know. Maybe the reality was that Don Cherry was, at that time, using a substandard-quality Pakistani-made pocket trumpet with poor intonation--at least that is what I have heard. There are some maqam Rast-like intervals (such as a c. 350-cent neutral third above the tonic) in this famous track, for example.
v=DNbD1JIH344
How much does it cost?
Ha! Came to say you look great and everyone is saying the same thing. Great vid as usual.
this feels like an ad
It's more like a review
Nice
Imagine bringing this to parade
Currently unavailable.
It looks like you've lost weight! I need to do whatever you're doing.
Aww baby trumpet uwu
damn bro lost weight
It sounds like a normal trumpet.
that’s the point
@@jacobsillik5069 Stunning. I never knew that.
👌🙏
Tem como colocar legendas em português ?
Desde já agradeço .
Just saying! you lost hair too 😂
Have you been indulging in slim-line salad dressing?
Too cool. Why play anything else?
Scoffs in tuba
He’s so skinny, haven’t seen him in over a year.
Your horns are shrinking (and so are you.)
And they are nonfattening, play them and lose weight, until the next crisis manifests itself, then start eating again, the cycle of perfect fifths........TOWER of POWER.............'What is hip?..........
wanna "world's smallest instrument"? get a kazoo (also better on your listeners LOL)
No afence or anything, but u look very different and have over the last 13 or so videos. Have u bin loosing weight or something?
Nah, he actually gained weight. He used to be eight pounds.