The use of copper for the bell, lead pipe and tuning slide on some models has as well proven to be very important in helping to meet these objectives. To this end La Tromba has experimented with, among other time tested innovations, the use of pure-copper, instead of the commonly used brass, for the more important "acoustical- resonating" components of the trumpet.Įxperiments with the use of resonating plates in both the bell-bow and tuning-slide-bow of LA TROMBA Trumpets have proven that an added stability of the tone-"center" as well an ability to project the sound with less effort is the result as well as an improvement in the general tone fullness and the players endurance.
This aspect will be more closely described later in this expos?©. and then in Europe in March of 1998 at the "Frankfurt Messe"(the Frankfurt International Music-Fair).Ĭorresponding LA TROMBA Rotary-valve Mouthpieces were conceptualized parallel to the development of these trumpets. From 1996 through to 1999 he was given responsibility by Zigmant Kanstul personally, to design a "combination" Piccolo Trumpet instrument namely the Bb-A-G which was first presented in the Fall of 1997 at the "Mid-West Band Conference" in Chicago, U.S.A. Parallel to the development of his own LA TROMBA trumpets, Richard Carson Steuart worked closely in a co-operative research, design and development capacity as "Artistic Representative" with Kanstul Brass Instruments of Anaheim, California U.S.A.
He wanted to combine the characteristics of a full "?"symphonic sound" in all registers with an extremely free "blowing", "flexible" trumpet, possessing excellent intonation and a very light response.
The LA TROMBA Professional Model series of piston valve B flat and C trumpets are the result of Richard Carson Steuart`s earnest desire to build excellent trumpets to meet his own artistic needs as a International Soloist and Chamber Musician from Baroque to Jazz.