My memory may be playing fanciful trucks but I'm sure that, when he was in town and I was working in J.G. Windows Ltd., enquiries about pocket trumpets would go up the following day! I seem to recall we sold one or two.
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4 comments :
Pardon my ignorance, but I read this as a comment on the stature of the player, rather than the trumpet. I therefore anticipated what I thought was a clever gag in your comments about JG Windows!
To my shame, Professor Google has corrected me...
...pocket trumpets, plastic trumpets - whatever next!
My faux pas now corrected! 'Polish pocket trumpet player' not pocket Polish - well spotted.
Our experience with Janusz at Blaydon was similar to Gordon's River City. He came several times arranged by Randy Heads with whom he stayed. Such a lovely player and very popular at Blaydon. I've not heard anything for quite a few years.
Roly
I bought "Portrait" some years ago and I wrote to Janusz via the Musicians Union asking if he would let me know the maker of his Pocket Trumpet. He sent me a postcard saying it was a Benge with "a very large and deep Bach mouthpiece, for a mellow and open tone" and inviting me to phone him sometime for a more informal chat.
I called him and we spent well over an hour talking about horns an jazz.
I know he was an active table tennis player and he did tell me in a later email that he was going to undergo heart surgery.
I really hope that, like Mark Twain, reports of his death are greatly exaggerated.
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