The Worlds First Super-Piccolo Trumpet!
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thanks goat
"The girth of my excellence is too much to swallow"
Love this quote
What is he quoting? It's new to me.
@@owensmith7530 i don't think its from anything specific, just trent being trent.
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This is quite possibly the pinnacle of Kiwi-made brass instruments this decade.
Analysis: true
Ngl I need one now
We want a laser kiwi instrument
Kiwi
The number of Top Gear references was astounding.
And all done without punching the producer.
Dude, you're looking sharp lately. Whatever you're doing, keep it up!
I got a team of tapeworms working for me. It's very effective!
WHO ARE YOU WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE REAL TRENT HAMILTON
I was thinking the same thing. I just got over coronavirus myself and didn't realize how much weight i lost in about a week and a half.... needless to say that when i returned to work, everyone was staring at me like i was that Lil outbreak monkey and Christian bale from that movie where he lost like 300 lbs to portray a character.... Damn.
@@sauceymen5033 Clearly, he's not half the man he used to be!
Actually I think he Is a little flat
Trent, now you just made the life harder of us orchestration professors everywhere...next time one of my composition students writes a PPP double C on an orchestral trumpet part, I cannot even mark them down, because they will say, "won't they just switch to super-piccolo at that moment?"
now that's just funny right there.
And now the Quest begins for a mouthpiece worthy of the Super-Piccolo Trumpet!
A thimble
Mouthpieces? Where we're going, we don't need mouthpieces!
A silver spoon with a pinprick in it?
@@alexcarter8807 nice back to the future reference.😂😂
@@CaptainApathetic too deep
Yes, inquiring minds have spend many sleepless nights dreaming of a super piccolo trumpet. It's now in existence, and sadly there becomes no further hurdles for mankind. Life became dull today.
How about a super, super piccolo trumpet? Doubles up as a dog whistle too.
That will never happen because of the HUGE mistake of sending a man to the moon. Why was that a mistake? Because forever after people have been sayhing, "If we could send a man to the moon, why can't we..." And there will always be those who try to respond and invent whatever.
Its mere existence leaves no room for creationism or any kind of deity too. How will we carry on in this godless universe?
I haven't watched your channel for half a year now due to some circumstances. But I've gotta say, HOLY SHEEET have you lost weight! I genuinely didn't expect that!
Yes, I noticed that as well. Plus he's got the world's highest trumpet. The rest of us can just pack up and go home.
Yeah me too i used to watch him but now oh my god HE LOST WEIGHT
Same. First time watching his videos in a year!
I'm actually quite impressed that you were able to get any sound out of that at all! Quite entertaining and now the world's trumpet makers have something to think about.
I've actually been waiting for a video like this for very long...If you can ever manage to get your hands on a tuba lower than a contrabass tuba, I'd be honoured to see you play it
A subcontrabass tuba would indeed be amazing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcontrabass_tuba
Subcontrabass tubas exist in the keys of Bb (an octave below a regular Bb contrabass) and also in Eb (a perfect fifth below a regular Bb contrabass). The ones in Bb are, as far as I can tell, basically just instrument-building stunts. There are a few videos of an Eb subcontrabass (you might call it an Eb sub-bass, if you follow the granular naming convention of recorders) which looks interesting, and I'd love to at least try an Eb subcontrabass one day.
In my experience, the same rule that high brass players are limited by their lip and not the instrument (i.e. going from a Bb trumpet to a picc does not give you an extra octave of range) also applies in reverse to the ultra-low register. My lowest note is (sounding) F0, and I can (on a good day) play this on either an Eb or Bb tuba. On the Bb it sounds like a dirty, laboured pedal and on the Eb it just sounds like a flapping noise :P. Would it sound any better on an Eb subcontrabass? Maybe, but probably the thing I'd want to use an Eb subcontrabass for is the range from A0 or maybe G0 (in the pedal range of the Bb contrabass) up to around F1. On a Bb tuba, that range is hard work and very stuffy on compensating tubas, but an Eb subcontrabass might open it up and make it sound bigger.
I highly doubt I could actually get an F0 out of an Eb subcontrabass (too much tubing, same problem as C1 on the compensating Bb) but I would be very interested to see if I could get an Eb0 out of an open instrument. That's too low to play on an Eb bass (at least in theory, I swear my Eb has a resonance peak below the pedal) and too much tube on the Bb contrabass. Go much lower than that and you need to start using weird extended techniques. Give Richard Bobo and his subcontrabassoon project a visit on TH-cam and you'll hear him play notes all the way down to A-1 on his prototype subcontrabassoon and down to G-2 on one of his Frankenstein creations. Down in that register, the notes start to sound less like a note and more like a rapid beating (th-kh-th-kh-th-kh-th-kh-th-kh...). If I ever got my hands on a tuba that had a resonance down in that range, I'd like to try buzzing it with a rapid double-tonguing and see if it actually resonates (alas, I still can't flutter tongue, otherwise I'd try that in the B-1 to F0 range on the Bb contrabass).
If you've every heard a cathedral organ recital or a brass band tuba section plumb those depths, you'll know that there is genuinely some richness of tone available down there. I'd love to try an Eb subcontrabass at something like a Christmas carol concert, playing in unison with the Bbs up util the final verse, then plunging to the abyssal depths to add some serious richness. Preferably with two Bbs above me, filling in the gap between Eb subcontrabass shenanigans and the actual bassline. I think you could achieve a hell of an effect, with a little help from a good acoustic.
I have seen one played.
I feel as though this instrument answers a question that no one asked 😁
Kind of like a flugelhorn :-)
A solution that creates new problems!
@@stephenhill6003 hey, wait a minute, I love my flugelhorn 😁😎
@@allenrussell1947 Same here. Maybe there's room for a baby trumpet as well :-)
Finally, a competitor to the market standard for that range (the five valve Wiggles Trumpet)!
it sounds like that noise a balloon makes when you slowly let air leak out of it, except at different pitches. Or, like if you gave Alvin and the Chipmunks a trumpet.
Dear god he’s done it
I wasn’t aware that Jeremy Clarkson had a cousin from New Zealand that was a musician but the evidence is all there
He even called the horn "the excellent"..
I’ve been a trumpet player for 6 years and I’m able to cover about 4-5 octaves on a standard trumpet. I have been intrigued by the piccolo trumpet for about 3 years but have never got around to getting one. Now the Super-Piccolo intrigues me more
Mr. Hamilton, wow! You’ve done it again. You’re a genius.
However I am intrigued by the image at 2:28 on the left of the screen. Yes, the first valve . . . Rotate the tube clockwise 90° and fashion a bell 81.4 mm long and 37.777mm in diameter then fashion a lead-pipe for the other port (on the left). Take special care to get the taper right and find the correct “gap”. Voila a Triple Pickle-O Trumpet!
Sir, this is stupendous. Hats off.
2:57 OK the Super Piccolo Trumpet.
I skipped a minute by reflex then realised he's not making videos longer than needed. Nice! I subscribe.
@TRENT!!! that song you played at the beginning was a song I played on my first year on high school, this song is so nostalgic!!!! I always loved that one, except I played the bass part an octave higher.
i love it!!!
Now all that's left is to bring it up a fourth and put it in Eb
Don't give Eric Ball any ideas
I want to recommend the name
Glocken Trumpet
The glockenspiel is the only other instrument I can think of that plays that high.
Smart!!!
Garklein recorder?
Grade school clarinet players often hit notes that high - although they don't intend to.
Piccolino trumpet
@@Koriyama Sopranino Trumpet
Well done, Trent!
"Half the size". You got that right. Looking good dude.
I used to own a rotary "piccolo" trumpet in A, the catch was the proportions are the same as a full sized rotary trumpet, it was just as long as my hand. It was playable. I sold it to a CSO trumpet player but still have pics if you're interested in seeing it. There are none like it online, it was possibly the worlds smallest playable trumpet
Yes, please send me some photos! I've seen several miniaturised trumpets, mainly by companies such as HN White (later known as King) from the 1920's), but never a rotary one.
@@TrentHamilton do you have an email I could send them to? I don’t think I can through TH-cam. Also yes, it’s much smaller than those ones
This is the correct fate for the piccolo trumpet shaped object. It sounds much better this way
Man! Congrats on the weight loss. I've been watching a lot of your videos and was like who's this guy?" Great channel!
holy crap, havent watch since like 2016 and my god you look so much better than you did back then keep it up
May I suggest the word piccolino for your new instrument?
So a pic that only James Morrison and Arturo Sandoval can play, nice
A half-size piccolo trumpet for a half-size Trent. Sounds like a match that needed to be made. The excellence of both is ... well ... umm ... excellent.
I've been watching a good amount of your videos tonight, you're looking good on the weight loss journey! Also, your videos are AMAZING! Thank you for posting all these!
broooo! haven't watched one of your vids in a while, and you're looking great man!
My dude is looking fantastic!
Wow- that is pretty wicked, can't lie
I'm so excited to add this to my arrangements
Name suggestions:
Alto-piccolo trumpet
Piccolo-piccolo trumpet
What the hell have I done-trumpet
Dog-whistle trumpet
The "why I'm now divorced" trumpet
Alto piccolo would imply that it's lower than a regular piccolo trumpet.
Congrats
You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.
As any trumpet player wanting a higher range finds as they experiment with a piccolo trumpet.... there is no free lunch. Regardless of the length of tubing, your lips must vibrate a the frequency of the note you wish to produce. So, if you want to play A-440 on a Bb trumpet, a French Horn, a tuba, or a piccolo trumpet (super or otherwise) your lips must vibrate at 440 Hz. It's just that way. Nice work Trent. Don't hurt yourself.
There's actually no study on the relationship between the frequency of the lip vibration and the frequency of the sound produced. Remember, playing A4 on the trumpet, you're not just producing the 440Hz wave, you also produce all the harmonics (880Hz, 1320Hz, ...). Also recall the demonstration where someone make a note sound from a tube and a torch. The velocity of the air from the torch is enough to induce vibration in the air column, you don't actually need a lip reed.
This is the content we come here for. Well played, Trent. Keep it up!
I thought that, after all the film of you cutting up the horn, you were going to hold up just a mouthpiece and say, "Here is our super piccolo trumpet!"
Two octaves up is a double piccolo, or "diccolo" for short.
diccolo lol I'm so immature
Hadn't been on this site in awhile. Mr. Trent, I am astonished at your weight-loss. Good show. And, this video falls into that category of videos that you have done, "No-one has seen this before"-kinda videos. Good show.
Haven't watched for a couple of years. Proud of you weight loss journey, sorry I didn't stick around to witness the progression!
I made my own four valve trumpet after your last video of this nature. I don't think I'll do this one. I think I'll make a soprano superbone instead.
Did you really? I'd love to see it!
Video plz
The pocket trumpet: Am I a joke to you?
As they're small, they have a good 1,5 metres of tubing. Makes them Bb trumpet size....
Nice one!
Basically the lowest useful partial is a high C on a regular trumpet meaning the tuning C partial is a double C on a regular trumpet. That is insane.
I would love to play this horn
"Sometimes the level of my genius is quite frightening" - Jeremy Clarkson
Trent, your comment at 3:09 is only 2nd to your modesty and humbleness followed closely by my jealousy of your vast knowledge and musical ability with such a wide variety of brass instruments (not to mention your Dr. Frankenstein-like skills in creating instruments of your dreams and our nightmares)
It should be could called a soprillo trumpet since piccolo=sopranino soprillo is used for the saxophone and it is above piccolo
Looking good Trent!!!
I haven't watched Trent in a while, he lost weight! Good for him!
A reed Trumpet mouthpiece might work
Great video. Looking good my man
First time here in two years and damn Trent lost hella weight!!! Good on you brother
What do you mean you haven't watched my videos in 2 years??
@@TrentHamilton I watched them on my chromebook as middle schooler and I haven’t been TH-cam there in a while but got one of your vids recommended here!!
it sounds like it would work well with a clarinet
Incredible!
You look great my man!
2:18 the Dremel tool almost matched the melody of the background music. lol.
Well done for craziness but I have to be a wet blanket here and point out you should have left to flare on and cut off the bell instead. Just like the piccolo bell is smaller than the trumpet bell the bell for the super pic would have to be be smaller again. About 50-60mm. So you still have the flare right? so maybe put that on in place of your frakenbell and lets call her the MKII....cheers and don't even turn normal...
I can’t believe you made that thing!
I'll volunteer to try it, I love the idea!
Now this is for Maynard covers lol
Arturo Sandoval needs to play this
Sounds perfect for jazz
its really cute!
Trent also a comedian!!!!!!!!!
Looking truly 👌mate. Keep it up
oh, i have head a half size piccolo trumpet in a brass concert in Berlin in the 1980/90s ... unfortunately don't remember the name of the quintet (?)
They were very virtuos and comedian.
The trumpeter of the mini trumpet got a rather red head but he could play on it very well. It was extremely tiny.
garklein trumpet lol, it sounds a lot like a zink/cornett, if you could get your hands on one of their mouthpieces it might make the embouchure a little bit more ,, comfortable
Why doesn’t this man have a million subscribers?
So the point of piccolo trumpet is not to extend the range of Trumpets in the orchestra, but to make high passages on regular trumpet more easy to play being they are now an octave lower (as rarely does anyone play above an F or G on piccolo.). So I guess the point of this instrument is to make the job of a Big Band lead player easier by putting the notes of this in the range of Maynard Ferguson?
Now create a trumpet that plays so high, that it is outside the audible range of human hearing. Best feature, you don't have to practice much, because no one can tell when you played a wrong note!
First of all, as a trumpet player, I would absolutely love to try playing this. Second off, what was the song that was playing during the montage?
Now for an uberpicollo bone with extra trom thrown in.
I will opt for my piccolo. Can't get much better higher or louder. 😜😃
That's so cool
Knowledge has it´s own purpose, but I thing the market is limited. :)
Next video: Hyper Piccolo Trumpet! 3 octaves above a standard Bb Trumpet!
Now I want the slide-version ;-)
Make a valve block and pistons proportionate to the rest of the horn, then you got something. What that something is, who knows. A fan
Dude, you look great!
What's the beautiful piece played during the construction of this magnificent instrument?
4:10
Not that I could do much with it (I’m a somewhat new player who’s used to playing trombone), but now I do kind of want one.
Had to hit the like button after hearing 'the girth of my excellence.."
With more practice this could sound really nice!
Make a half size euphonium. And aldo a half size Eb trumpet. The Eb trumpet might work better. It woulf be the highest possibly working trumpet
You could probably make a half size euphonium by rearranging the valve section of a flugelhorn like this guy did to a cornet th-cam.com/video/mLxiejdGHrI/w-d-xo.html
You can theoretically make a Bb "Soprano" Euphonium by starting with an Alto Horn, removing all of the cylindrical tubing, and uhh...praying that replacing the leadpipe for a Flugelhorn leadpipe assembly leaves you with 4.5'. It won't sound as good as you imagine. Soprano timbre doesn't scale that large. You get something that sounds like contra-alto. Good strategy for making an instrument loud AF, though.
@@Markworth Yeah!, Hoe do you feel about this little trumpet?
@@instrumentalheadquarters7062 I think projects like this are really cool and a good learning opportunity in a great number of ways, but there's basically zero chance that you can make something like this be useful. At this length of tubing, the overall size is relatively big, so the resulting timbre will actually fight against the useful range (like a Flugelhorn or Bass Trombone). On the other hand, I don't doubt for a second that there are multiple players talented enough to play real music on an instrument in 1-1/8'Bb.
Some may call is a doubleo trumpet... 00🎺 for short
I surely can’t be the only person who wants one!
Not smooth inside bell area? Try creating some artificial rubber lips from balloons to hit notes above hearing range. Feed it with 100 psi air compressor. I bet the military will buy it
Trent really went fine ill do it myself
Great video, and wow you look great!
You are the worlds best super picc player Ive ever seen
You did it because you knew you could, but you didn’t stop to consider whether you should
Damn that suit you wore in the ad looks pretty snazzy
Also congrats on the weight loss.