The Osmun Custom Page

This is a sample of some of the custom work done by our technicians.

We make custom mouthpiece visualisers for all brass instruments. We can make one for you out of any new mouthpiece or any rim you already own. In the picture you see here, we have two of our visualisers for trumpet. One is made from a Bach 1 1/2C and the other was made from a Bach 1 1/4C. Many brass teachers order these to study the embouchure development of their students. The advantage of our visualisers over stock brands is that we can make them with the same rim that you are comfortably playing. Please email our sales staff to place your order.

These are shots of a  Edwards trombone hand slide that Jim Becker turned into a tuning hand slide. The stop nuts lock the slide into place after tuning.

These pictures are of a Bach Stradivarius C trumpet with our custom tuning slide trigger or "pitch finder". Many orchestral trumpeters are finding these extremely useful for playing in that tricky register on top of the staff, not to mention tuning while playing with mutes.

Black "Hematite" Nickel now available! This is a Martin Imperial we overhauled and black lacquered over silver. Notice the silver trim on the valve caps.

This is a 1970's early Elkhart Bach Stradivarius that we overhauled, double silver plated, and gold plated. This horn has a custom Osmun  copper lead pipe. We replaced the tuning slide crook and third slide crook because the originals were stricken with de-zincification. The horn's owner, Eric Berlin, is the principal trumpet of the Albany Symphony, and teaches at UMASS Amherst.

The following pictures are shots of a bell switch that we did involving a new Martin trumpet.  The Martin trumpets made today have a bell that are closer to the Holton Maynard Ferguson bells, very similar to the Bach 72 shape. It works well, but doesn't give you that sound. If you click on each picture, you can see the differences in bell shape. The Blue bell is the bell that came with the horn.

Over the last couple of years, the demand for our Piccolo Trumpet Mouthpipes has increased. We are now producing a full line of mouthpipes for most major brand of piccolo trumpets. Please click the picture below to view prices and ordering instructions.

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If you'd like to discuss custom work on your horn, you can email our repair staff at

sales@osmun.com