I gave a lecture presentation about my book, ‘Just’ Natural Trumpet on Saturday 5 October 2024 at St Andrew’s church in Thornhill Square in London. The lecture was part of a natural trumpet weekend course organised by Bill Tuck. I have known Bill for many years, having first met him in 2008, even before I moved to London. Indeed one of my earliest blogs on this website was entitled ‘Tomes and Tuck’, as I gave a lecture for Bill Tuck at UCL in fifteen years ago, just after I collected my finished Frank Tomes trumpet—'the last trumpet’ Frank ever made—from Frank’s home in Wimbledon. 

The lecture I gave was tailored to the more advanced subject knowledge of these players, and so I felt free to delve deeply into various topics (also covered in the book) including the writings of James Talbot, and the 'clarino piccolo’ which was utilised (although used in different ways) by composers such as Johann Schelle, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Johann Samuel Endler. 

I placed other books (such as facsimiles of the treatises by Bendinelli, Fantini, Altenburg, and others) in a timeline on the floor to demonstrate the chronology of the natural trumpet literature—the same chronology that formed the basic idea for my book, ‘Just’ Natural Trumpet.