Product Description
Schilke M Series C Trumpet
This is a cool piece of history! This is a Schilke "M" Series C Trumpet that's recently come into the shop. This one is most likely an M-II.
This one is in good shape but does have apparent signs of use. There is some scratching around the horn and some signs of red rot in the leadpipe. No denting and the slides and valves move great!
Some history about this horn:
In the late 60s Yamaha hired Renold Schilke to "consult" and to design some of their first instruments for the North American market.
The M-I horns were assembled by Schilke of entirely Yamaha fabricated parts. This was also during a time when Yamaha was experimenting with a new valve material which has become known as Yamalloy. This one appears to have been replated so the valves work a bit better and with better compression.The M-II horns were made simultaneously with the M-I's. They were built with Schilke leadpipes and for a short time in the earliest years, Schilke bells.
There are also perhaps a dozen M-II's which have "Autrey" stamped on the mouthpiece receiver. This horn is one of those. These were made at the instigation of Byron Autrey during the early 70s while he was professor of trumpet at Michigan State University. These horns had a more open F. Besson shaped leadpipe.
No case or mouthpiece included
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