Professional models

La Tromba Trumpets, since 1999.

The LA TROMBA Trumpet, Cornet and Flugelhorn Professional Series 

The "BIG DADDY" in Gold!
The "top of line" Hand-Made La Tromba Bb Trumpet in 24 Karat Gold-Plating with a 20 gram (minimum) Silver-Plating basis. 
This looks heavy but it is infact a perfectly balanced, very light playing medium-bore-size instrument that makes the full, big, dark sound of an extra- large trumpet but with an added clarity and special brilliance in the loud dynamics that is quite uncomparable,...truly an exceptional trumpet! 
It comes (standard) with a Copper bell and lead -pipe as well as Copper resonating- plates in both the bell-bow and tuning slide. 
With it's heavy mouthpiece receiver and heavy valve caps (both standard) it is available with either Monel/Brass or Steel/Bronze valves (pictured here with "Monel" Valves). A perfectly fitting 24 Karat Gold-Plated genuine heavy-model (S) La Tromba Mouthpiece of any size is of course included in the price. 
This instrument is Mr. Steuart's "personal choice" when performing with Large Orchestras, Large Brass Ensembles and Symphonic Wind Orchestra especially ouside!

The "Big Daddy" is also available on special order with a "Stering- Silver" Bell and"Sterling-Silver" Lead-pipe. (please inquire for special order prices) 

Prices start at 5,500.00 Euro.
Please inquire for exact prices (due to fluxuating Gold and Silver prices).

The French-Style "Artist's- Model" B-flat / A / G Cornet. ... BonJour Mr. Arban!

The Hand-Made "Artist's-Model" La Tromba Bb-A-G Cornet with 24 Karat Gold-plating (Jeweler's Gold).
This is our Top Romantic-Period French Style Cornet for Top- Soloists

The "Artist- Model" Romantic- Cornet with Monel/Brass or Steel/Bronze valves (pictured here with monel valves and in Bb Tuning), has a Copper or Brass Bell, changable lead pipes (one for each key of Bb, A and G) tuning positioning screws for the tunable first and third valve-slides and extra tuning slide for G tuning, heavy caps and resonating plate in the bell-bow and "protection/resonance" border-strip around the outside of the bell. This intrument is played by amoung others, the German Radio and Television (ARD)  International Prize-winning French Soloist David Guerrier, (now also Solo- Hornist of the Paris Opera) in a special "light model" construction in Sliver (and without plates or border-strip) in B-flat and A and as well by both Richard Carson and Sean Gabriel Steuart as pictured here and in Gold and Silver versions, respectively.
Starting at 5,500.00 Euro
Please inquire for exact prices (due to fluxuating Gold and Silver prices).

Hand-Made La Tromba Bb Trumpet in Silver-Plate (Minimum 20 Grams Silver-Plating).


The "Big Daddy" in Silver!

With Monel/Brass or Steel/Bronze valves (pictured here with "Monel" Valves),  heavy mouthpiece receiver, heavy caps and resonating plates in the Tuning slide and in the bell-bow.
Also available on special order with a "Stering- Silver" Bell and"Sterling-Silver" Lead- Pipe,


Prices start at 3,500.00 Euro.
Please inquire for exact prices (due to fluxuating Silver prices).

The "Band-Master Soloist " Model B-flat Cornet

Hand-Made La Tromba Bb-Cornet Silver-plated. "Band-Master Soloist" Model 

With Monel/Brass or Steel/Bronze valves (pictured here with "monel" valves), first and third valve-slide tuning rings, heavy caps. (minmum 20 Grams Silver) this beautiful cornet is also available in Gold Plate. This is traditional model with "Shepards crooks" slides and bell. The answered prayer of both devout "Salvationists" and Band- Master Soloists alike! 
Prices starting at 2,500.00 Euro
Please inquire as to prices (due to fluxuating Gold and Silver prices)

The True German "Romantic" Sound of the 19th Century

The Hand-Made
La Tromba Bb or C Rotary-Valve "Romantic- Period" Trumpet

A True "Romantic" very dark-sounding Rotary-Valve trumpet with a heavy 0,6 mm Gold- Brass Bell, Nickel-Silver or Gold-Brass Lead-pipe, Gold-Brass Tuning- and Valve- slides and the very special " State of the Art" Bernhard Zirnbauer "all-in-one" Gold-Brass valve- section.
This intrument has Hand-made, valve-slideTuning Triggers for both the 1st and 3rd slide (that are of course made to fit your very hand, big or small!), two Water-keys for the Third and Tuning- slide and an "Intonation- key" (optional) that can be placed as you like on the top side of the tuning slide. This instrument is large-bore (standard)!

In24 Karat Gold- and Silver-Plating only!
Staring at 5,000.00 Euro 

Optional additional lead pipes available.
Please inquire for exact prices (due to fluxuating Gold and Silver prices) 

Wow, what a Horn of Plenty!

Hand-Made La Tromba Bb Fluegelhorn with 24 Karat Gold-plating (Jeweler's Gold).

Based on Zigmant Kanstul's "Masterpiece" of a Traditional French-style Bugel ?¡ Piston or as is internationally known through the German term "Fluegelhorn", this instrument has a very large Copper-Bell, monel valves, hand-hammered  first and third valve-slide triggers (and made to fit your hand, big or small!), heavy caps and resonating plate in both bell-bows and traditional outside "protection/resonance" traditional border-strip around the outside of the bell. It's intonation and responce is truly exceptional and it's huge tone is unbelievabley warm , clear and beautiful!

Starting at 6,500.00 Euro.
Inquire for prices (due to fluxuating Gold prices).
Smaller (Cornet-size) lead-pipe available on request.

The "Classical Soloist on Tour" D/E-flat Trumpet

Hand-Made La Tromba D/Eb Trumpet in Silver-plate. (minmum 20 Grams Silver) 

For the "Soloist of Taste" who demands a big symphonic sound even on the High trumpet and most especially for the Classical Haydn and Hummel Concertos.

With Monel/Brass or Steel/Bronze valves (pictured here with heavy Steel/Bronze valves), 2 heavy mouthpipe receivers, 2 Screw-bells and two sets of first and third valve-slides with tuning rings, heavy caps. Sterling-Silver Bells available (extra).
Can be special ordered as E/Eb Trumpet.
Prices start at 3,500.00 Euro in Silver-plate.
Inquire for exact prices (due to fluxuating Silver prices)

This Instrument is also available as the complete "SUPER SOLOIST" in a D-Eb-E and F Version and comes also in D-Eb-E and Eb-E-F models. Please inquire for prices

Sterling Silver : "Like a beam of Bright White Light!" a Tribute to Al Porcino

Hand-Made "Sterling-Silver" La Tromba Bb Trumpet

Out in front and above them all: This is truly the high lead- players dream!
With Monel/Brass or Steel/Bronze valves (pictured here with "monel" valves), special German "Stering- Silver" Bell AND"Sterling-Silver" Lead- Pipe, special adjustable mouthpiece receiver and two tuning slides (one with special resonance plate), heavy and light caps, in Silver-plate ONLY (with a minimum of an extra 20 Grams of Silver plating per instrument) Sterling- Silver tuning-slide available on request (extra).
Price 4,500.00 Euro

It's no "Secret" anymore!

All "Professional Model" La Tromba Trumpets were personally designed and built to meet Mr. Steuart's personal high demands as an International Soloist and Ensemble Musician from Symphony to Jazz.
Now, with his personal complements: The Hand-Made La Tromba"Prototype" B-flat -A - G  Four-Valve Piccolo Trumpet with 24 Karat Gold-plating (Jeweler's Gold)

This Bb-A-GPiccolo-Trumpet (that Mr. Steuart says, "reallysorts the men out from the boys") has so big and full a sound and so clear a projection that you can hardly beleave it's a piccolo.  Arguably the best piccolo trumpet for any price (and it's three instruments in one!) in the entire world, the La Tromba "Prototype" B-A-GPiccolo Trumpet is truly one of a kind!
Designed and developed in the late ninties as a special co-operative Research and Development project with Kanstul Music Instruments of Anaheim, Californiait had to meet not only Mr. Steuart's austical demands, but his aquired fine taste and enormous experience as a top- International Prize Winning Soloist, Chamber Musician and Recording Artist. 
Combining the extraordinary ablities of the German based La Tromba design and development personel with the KMI (California, USA) factory machinists and workmen have now taken this very special instrument design idea to it's Zenith of both perfection in Craftmanship and at the same time down to earth practicality,... in short "a marriage of good old American Knowhow and typical German Precision (and perhaps even genius!?) in Design Innovation"!. 

This instrument is available with either "American" Monel/Brass or "German" Steel/Bronze valves (pictured here with "monel" valves), three screw- bells, three sets of slides and three lead pipes, first-valve triggers and third-valve finger-rings (for all key combinations) and standard heavy caps it is available only in 24 Karat Gold-Plate.
7,000.00 Euro.
Please inquire as to specific prices (due to fluxuations in Gold prices) 
"Resonance" rings for each bell and/or the wooden Chamber-Music Bell *
*
(for A-Trumpet tuning only) are also available. (extras). 

S-H-H-H-H-h-h-h-h-h-h-h... the truly "one of a kind"  LA TROMBA  4-Valve B-A-G "Prototype" Piccolo Trumpet, for your very own musical "Secret-Service"! ... Q says, you should (sometimes) use the "silencer" =  " * " (Agent Steuart told me once (in strict confidence, of course), that he personally find's it very effective,... most especially at close range!!! (...you can throw away your Walther PPK !)
And... the very special "James Bond"
brief-case (pictured right) has a hinden "secret- compartment" for both the 2nd and 3rd sets of slides and lead pipes. It allows for a compact transportation of the entire instrument including all three bells. Inquire for prices. 

 

"As Good as it Gets" in the German and International Orchestra Today

Hand-Made La Tromba Rotary-Valve (German-Style) Symphonic
C-Trumpet in Lacquer

With 0,5 mm Gold- Brass Bell, Nickel-silver or Gold- Brass lead-pipe, Gold- Brass tuning and valve slides and the "State of the Art" German MadeBernhard Zirnbauer all- in- one Gold-Brass Valve- Section (available in conical or cylinrical bores).
This intrument has hand-hammered, doublevalve-slideTuning Triggers,double water keys a Hand-engraved Bells (standard) and a heavy mouthpiece reciever.


Starting at 4,000.00 Euro
(Gold and/or Silver Plating also available).
Please inquire as to prices (due to fluxuating Gold and Silver prices).  

Starting in as yet another Research and Development co-operative project with KMI of California, U.S.A. in the late 1990s, Mr. Steuart has since 2000 continually developed his own line of La Tromba Rotary- valve Bb and C trumpets.
These truly "hand-made" trumpets boast an all gold-brass construction with an independent trigger-tuning system for the first and third-valve slides and promise excellent intonation and a dark, authentic German tone character. They have the internationally accaimed Bernhard Zirnbaur Rotary -valves ... Made in Germany.

These instrumemts come with  corresponding LA TROMBA Rotary-Valve Mouthpieces were conceptualized parallel to the development of these trumpets for true "authenic" traditional German and Austrian trumpet tonal qualities
These special R, RG and RA modelscome of course in thethree standrad La TrombaMouthpiece weight catagories: L (Light), M (medium) and S (Heavy).

The R model (Rotary-valve cup with standard back-bore), RG model (Rotary-valve cup with German back-bore) and RA model (Rotary-valve cup with Austrian back-bore)models. Please see Mouthpieces.  

Hand-Made La Tromba Rotary-Valve (German-Style) Symphonic
Bb-Trumpet in Lacquer

With 0,5 mm Gold- Brass Bell, Nickel-silver or Gold- Brass lead-pipe, Gold- Brass tuning and valve slides and the "State of the Art" German MadeBernhard Zirnbauer all- in- one Gold-Brass valve- section (available in conical or cylinrical bores).
This intrument has hand-hammered, doublevalve-slideTuning Triggers,double water keys a Hand-engraved Bells (standard) and a heavy mouthpiece reciever.


Starting at 4,000.00 Euro
(Gold and/or Silver Plating also available).
Please inquire as to prices (due to fluxuating Gold and Silver prices).