Sean Jones and Summer Camargo with Bach Trumpets

Episode 5: Bach Trumpets

Over the years, the sound from Bach trumpets has painted the walls of the Rudy Van Gelder Studio. Listen to artists Summer Camargo & Sean Jones describe how Bach is engrained in their own foundations of playing and practicing the music.

״The soundtrack of our lives is Bach.Sean Jones
״The Bach trumpet really helps me get to that level of being able to play whatever I want.Summer Camargo

The Ease of Playing Bach

Sean Jones - Bach Artist

Every great visual artist starts with the purest blank canvas. That's what the Bach trumpet is about. It gives you the purest, cleanest, most fundamental trumpet sound that exists, and you come along and color it. You don't want to have to think about 'how do I manipulate my physical person' in order to adjust to the instrument. You just want to pick it up and play. It's a beautiful thing to have the tool at your disposal that affords you the opportunity to think about one thing and one thing only and that's the music.

This amazing building that has created the opportunity for some of the greatest music to ever grace this planet with an instrument company that has provided the instruments. Most great trumpet players have touched Bach at some point in time and they've mirrored that sound. I tell my students all the time you always come back home. Bach is like home.

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Summer Camargo - Bach Artist

All the things like flexibility, intonation, tone quality, the list goes on. We didn't have to think about it when we were playing these instruments.

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Bach Stradivarius Trumpet 190L65GV Vindabona

Bach Stradivarius Trumpet 190L65GV Vindabona

Played by Sean Jones

The new 190L65GV is the long-awaited successor to the classic Bach Vindabona trumpet models. We worked with our top artists to improve on Bach’s original design concepts of a large bell flare with a step bore design to create something special. A revised #43 leadpipe with a nickel receiver and new LV bore size that grows from .459" to .462" balances the Bach #65 bell, the largest one in our portfolio. This trumpet provides the player with the ultimate breadth and richness of sound while maintaining the classic Bach quality. A new bore size was developed to allow the player an ease of response at all dynamic ranges and registers. Vincent Bach’s original idea of pairing the bore and bell size of a German rotary trumpet with the valve block of a French instrument gave birth to a uniquely American trumpet sound.

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Bach Stradivarius Trumpet 19072V Vindabona

Bach Stradivarius Trumpet 19072V Vindabona

Played by Summer Camargo

The 19072V is the long-awaited successor to the classic Bach Vindabona trumpet models. Bach Brass worked with top artists to improve on Bach's original design and create something special. This instrument provides the player with a nearly unlimited color palate and breadth of sound while maintaining the agility of a much smaller bore instrument. Vincent Bach's original idea of pairing the bore and bell size of a German rotary trumpet with the valve block of a French instrument gave birth to a uniquely American trumpet sound.

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