Theo van Kampen schreef: Merkwaardig dat de adm. het toestaat dit forum te gebruiken als gratis advertentieruimte terwijl obstinate trombonisten in de ban worden gedaan.... Maar ala, ik zal het wel niet begrepen hebben. Wat ik ook niet begrijp is dat het welbekende ventielenprobleem bij Calicchio kennelijk geen beletsel vormt voor de slachtoffers om nogmaals zo'n ding aan te schaffen. Er zijn toch wel meer toeters die geschikt zijn voor leadwerk en die wél een betrouwbare ventielmachien hebben?
Op zich heb je een punt maar als je het geluid mooi vind...Chuck Findley zegt het zo op de Calicchio site :
"As long as I could remember, everybody always said, "Wow, Chuck, your horn is fantastic, I wish I could have one like that!" Well, now you've got it, now it's made, it's a done deal. They're going to be consistent. Consistency was a problem. The other problem was that there was always a problem, like there was something wrong with the valves, like the third valve sticks or something like that. The Schilke was very well crafted, the valves always worked real good on the Schilke, the slides, everything worked beautiful, but I didn't like the sound of the Schilke. Bach was kind of the same way. For what it's worth, some of the manufactured horns were actually put together better, but none of them had the sound of the Calicchio, they never did. The first time I played a Calicchio, I fell in love with it, there's nothing like it and that's the way it is. It's true to this day. Even more so, now - it's never been like this, it's so consistent. So, to have that beauty that Domenick had on occasion, I mean every horn he made was beautiful in its own way, but few of them were like mine. Mine, for instance, was a jewel and then there were other ones. Different cats in town would get horns. I remember when Gary Grant got his, he loved the horn, but I don't know how many times he went to him (Domenick). He told me this is the sixth one and he finally found one that he liked. That was the way it was with the old man. All I had to do was play about four bars on this horn that Domenick made me and I knew that's the one. So it's been kind of a legacy of the inconsistency of the horns of whether you get a good one or whether you get one that has a sticky valve. For what it's worth, even with mine, when I take it on tour, sometimes I'll have a valve that will be a little gummy. It's very sensitive. Plus, the horn is getting old. I got it in '68, so I'd like to let it take a nap every now and again! (Laughs)"
Ik heb even gecheckt bij Pfeiffer en de ventielen schijnen nu beter te zijn. Ik heb veel gelezen over Calicchio spelers zoals Jerry Hey, Gary Grant, Charley Davis. Zij spelen nu allemaal Bachs. Dat wil niet zeggen dat ze ook af en toe de Calicchio uit de kast halen.
Charley Davis (o.a. lead bij Buddy Rich geweest) heeft een endorsement voor de Bach Sterling, zie Cool Clips op www.trumpetstuff.com voor wat demo's. Maar meestal speelt hij een Bach Mt.Vernon volgens insiders.
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