Martin Committee SN# 185024 (Circa 1953)
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MINT Excellent player! Selected from many horns.......... So nice! Pristine condition, medium bore #2 (0.451) Martin Committee trumpet SN# 185024 (Circa 1953) marvelously restored by Dick Akqright The lacquer is 100% and the horn plays beautifully. All of the slides and valves move perfectly and the compression is uncompromised. It comes with the original case (Excellent Condition) . It is generally believed that the quality of Martin products eroded after 1956 -- in an interview Chet Baker spoke about switching to a Connstellation at that time because a trip to the Martin factory did not yield a good horn. This horn is right in the middle of the great era of Martin Committees.The most popular horns were the medium bore and the extra large bore. Instruments with serial numbers between 140,000 and 210,000 are apparently the most valued but good horns were produced later and earlier than those dates. The committee was: 1. Renold Schilke (who always claimed the horn was designed by a committee of one, him) 2. Vincent Bach 3. Elden Benge (Schilke and Elden built the early Chicago Benge horns in Schilke's garage, they were neighbors and Schilke had the machine tool experience) 4. Foster Reynolds (later he designed the Olds Mendez with Rafael) 5. A local player, presumably from the Chicago Symphony, since all these guys had strong ties to the symphony, The Committee dominated the post war jazz world. Committees were played, at least at some point in their careers, by: Chet Baker (large bore, early in his career), Bill Chase, Miles Davis (whose loyalty to the horn is almost magical), Clifford Brown, Conte Candoli, Art Farmer, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Hirt, Blue Mitchell, Lee Morgan, Red Rodney, and Clark Terry. The popularity of these older horns remain. Currently, light jazz player and Sting collaborator Chris Botti plays a 1939 large bore Handcraft Committee. More information and some fun reading can be found at Jim Donaldson's site :~~~~ http://www.dallasmusic.org/gearhead/Martin%20Committee.html ~~~~~ More pictures upon request.