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Passion....Passions of the ....Heart!
Cousin Don (a.k.a... Don Juan)...
'Makin Music'....from the heart....below is Don's own words about his 'beloved'....and stunning...trumpet....
That is my blue, custom engraved, (with Don Juan) 2003 "Martin Committee Deluxe" trumpet....
They cost about $3,000........I had to wait 6 months to get it, even after I had paid for it....for their "one" master engraver "Howard Hartnell"
to finally get to my horn (he has a backlog) to engrave it and put Don Juan on it.
I'll send you the original (which was taken by Ed Tiley) when we headlined the "Apalachicola Jazz Festival" last year.
It is an awesome trumpet........a work of art and also plays like a dream.
It is an anodized blue cobalt finish with custom engraving and gold trim.
This is the exact type of horn that Miles Davis played just before he died in 1991 (except Howard Hartnell engraved Miles Davis on his).
Passion....Passions of the Heart........A Johann Sebastian Bach quote says it best......"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
A note From: Don a.k.a. "Don Juan"
"I just became a member of "Bugles Across America" to make myself available to play TAPS for any veteran's funeral which takes place within 100 miles of Tallahassee Florida. There is a shortage of buglers available to play for veterans funerals across the nation and I feel strongly that I have a duty to do this. I played TAPS many times when I was a US AIR FORCE MUSICIAN during the Vietnam era. I served a full 4 year stint in the US Air Force between 1968-1972...."
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