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Renold Schilke was born June 30, 1910, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He began playing cornet at age 8. Before his teens, he was initiated into the life of a professional musician playing for the Frank Holton Company and also learning basics of instrument manufacture, as had cornet virtuoso and instrument manufacturer Ernst Couturier before him.
Renold Schilke (1910–1982), principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony and instrument maker, performed as a member of the Holton-sponsored Chicago Symphony Brass Ensemble in the 1950s. Philip Farkas (1914–1992), principal horn of the Chicago Symphony, left what became Schilke Music Products in 1956 and joined with Holton, designing the ...
The piccolo trumpet is the smallest member of the trumpet family, pitched one octave higher than the standard B â™ trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B â™ or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B â™ piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B â™ trumpet. Piccolo trumpets in ...
In instruments with a fourth valve, such as tubas, euphoniums, piccolo trumpets, etc. that valve lowers the pitch by a perfect fourth; this is used to compensate for the sharpness of the valve combinations 1–3 and 1–2–3 (4 replaces 1–3, 2–4 replaces 1–2–3).
Schilke always maintained that the horn was actually designed "by a committee of one." The first advertisement for the Martin Committee ran in the December 1, 1940 issue of Down Beat. It listed the committee as follows: Fred Berman, popular radio staff star, probably the busiest trumpet player and teacher in Boston.
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