• Introduction
  • From the Author
  • History and Background of Schilke Musical Products, Inc.
  • Quantity and Quality
• Trumpets and cornets
  • B flat trumpets
    • A Note about the Irrelevance of Bore Size
    • A Strategy for Testing Schilke B-flat Trumpets
  • C trumpets
  • Cornets
  • Small trumpets
  • Piccolo trumpets
  • Schilke serial numbers/year of manufacture
  • Prices on used Schilke instruments: an e-Bay auction survey
• Options
  • Bell, slide and finish options
    • The Bell-Tuned Trumpet, by Dr. Colin Bloch
  • Aftermarket products made for Schilke trumpets and cornets
  • Repair and Restoration by Schilke
    • The Yamalloy valve curse
    • Valve Alignment
• Other Schilke instruments
  • Schilke Trumpets from 1956 to 1961
  • The M Series
  • The Schilke flugelhorn
  • The Schilke trombone and other instruments
• Trumpet mouthpieces
  • Schilke mouthpiece labeling system
  • Schilke mouthpiece models (with additional commentary by the author)
    • Symphony Series Mouthpieces
  • The author's own Schilke/Bach mouthpiece equivalency chart
• Writings of Renold O. Schilke
  • Schilke Master Class
    • The production of tone
    • The development of techniques
    • Musical development
  • Schilke Power Exercise, with notes by David Bilger
  • Other exercises from Schilke lessons
  • Schilke Brass Clinic
    • Nodal pattern of the inner brass
    • Materials and their affect on the acoustics of brass instruments
    • Findings on the three different finishes of instruments
  • How to Select a Mouthpiece
  • Dimensional Characteristics of Brass Mouthpieces
  • Trumpet Leader Pipe Design
  • Practical Physics for Trumpeters and Teachers
• Schilke ball caps and t-shirts for sale
• The Schilke Loyalist in Japanese?

 

For Jim Donaldson's answers to a few frequently,
or at least occasionally, asked questions, go to:
The Trumpet Gearhead.

 

Last revised: August 12, 2008.

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