Introduction to the Firebird trumpet with Indofunk Satish - part 1

[@rsiau]

Loving the history lesson. Never got a chance to ask you about this stuff when we were working together.

[@IndofunkSatish]

Hey, that's an excellent question and one that I never addressed! I should take the slide apart in the next episode, whenever I make that. But the mechanism is a slide-within-a-slide. The part of the slide just past the two finger rings is adjustable, and you lock it down with a screw. It's kind of tough to put into words, I'll have to record a video for you soon...

[@alexanderhall3064]

The only person I ever saw play a MF Firebird was Maynard Ferguson. It was 1979 and it was in Royal Oak Michigan. The song was Carnival. Those were the days. MF was great.

[@Markworth]

I've seen a lot of horns, but never stumbled into this one. Genius idea. I see the slide and I'm thinking "yay, more low notes!"

[@bilboinsa]

"Superbone Meets the Bad Man", baby! Very cool post, Satish!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Indofunk Satish I'm getting a Super bone which is something you used to have, but I'm getting one of them someday.

[@IndofunkSatish]

NOTE: a friend of mine and huge Maynard Ferguson fan told me that he saw Maynard using a Firebird in 1978, and that it was credited on his albums as early as 1975. The dates that I quoted were sent to me in an email from Larry Ramirez himself. This may be because Maynard was playing a prototype, and that actual production of the horn began in 1983. Basically, ignore the exact dates, they're not that important to the playing technique anyways :-D

[@LowReedExpert1]

Rarely fing them on eBay, However Schlub brass makes their own that work very well. There are a couple of videos of them on youtube

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

They now make Soprano Superbones (7 Position Firebird)

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Indofunk Satish To make a Soprano Superbone I would take a Soprano Trombone & cut off enough tubing to put a Valve Block on from a Piccolo Trumpet w/ 4 Valves

[@barrybfl]

Cool man, keep up the posts!. You have a good sound too.

[@darranmcnamara1]

How does the added slide affect the trumpets response? I'm used to my standard trumpet, and also I wonder how my trumpets freeblowingness is gonna change after my standard horn is customized to have a slide.

[@IndofunkSatish]

Unfortunately, can't tell you. The Firebird, obviously, came with the slide so I couldn't A/B it with & without the slide. In fact, the only other Holton I've played is a ST307 which, although I found it to play much better than the Firebird to me, is still comparing 2 very different horns to each other. btw, if you want to take this discussion offline, feel free to contact me through my website: konakkol.com/content/about

[@ssrrapper]

I want to buy one of these. Where can I find one?

[@darranmcnamara1]

how does the tuning work?

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

The Hand slide actually can adjust some notes that are out of tune

[@IndofunkSatish]

Check ebay. One sold recently for $5600, significantly cheaper than a few years ago...

[@hotdog1082]

The trumpet wasn't good enough so they took part of the amazing trombone to make it better :P

[@predomkevin3034]

Thanks just play it next time ,scales,, what ever.

[@IndofunkSatish]

Sorry about that! Check out part 2 & 3, I do more playing there...

[@backseatbogan2021]

this guys hair just got thanos snapped