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Hakam Din pocket trumpet, ca. 1950s-60s?
Apr 8th, 2023 at 7:07pm
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Before Hakam Din began selling stenciled Chinese brasswinds, they produced a series of trumpets and cornets at their factory in Sialkot.  The 81P designation was on their old website - https://web.archive.org/web/20040704190740/http://hakamdin.com:80/products/corne... / https://web.archive.org/web/20050308231059/http://www.hakamdin.com:80/cornets_tr...
Valves are marked 16, 17, 18 in the European manner, with a 6 on the second valve casing, no serial number on the bell like other pockets [i.e. in the Nick DeCarlis collection].  West Pakistan implies pre-1971, technically 1955-1970 under "One Unit" policy.  The two-digit NY code implies pre-1965, though horns only marked "Sialkot - Pakistan" [no West] have also had the two-digit code... https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/194-VlOr-QNB2X2WU88lSbVoutW0zFGwl?usp=sha... - hard to say exactly when it was made, but 1950s-60s is probably it.

This has a standard trumpet receiver and plays okay, but not the most secure slotting [big surprise].  Definitely miles ahead of the usual instruments from this region, and an interesting design compared to Hakam Din's newer offerings.



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Re: Hakam Din pocket trumpet, ca. 1950s-60s?
Reply #1 - Apr 22nd, 2023 at 5:46pm
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Didn't know how out-of-line the valves were [surprise, surprise], but apparently it played quite a bit better after alignment.  Hope the new owner likes it!

CDFhorn wrote on Apr 8th, 2023 at 7:07pm:
Before Hakam Din began selling stenciled Chinese brasswinds, they produced a series of trumpets and cornets at their factory in Sialkot.  The 81P designation was on their old website - https://web.archive.org/web/20040704190740/http://hakamdin.com:80/products/corne... / https://web.archive.org/web/20050308231059/http://www.hakamdin.com:80/cornets_tr...
Valves are marked 16, 17, 18 in the European manner, with a 6 on the second valve casing, no serial number on the bell like other pockets [i.e. in the Nick DeCarlis collection].  West Pakistan implies pre-1971, technically 1955-1970 under "One Unit" policy.  The two-digit NY code implies pre-1965, though horns only marked "Sialkot - Pakistan" [no West] have also had the two-digit code... https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/194-VlOr-QNB2X2WU88lSbVoutW0zFGwl?usp=sha... - hard to say exactly when it was made, but 1950s-60s is probably it.

This has a standard trumpet receiver and plays okay, but not the most secure slotting [big surprise].  Definitely miles ahead of the usual instruments from this region, and an interesting design compared to Hakam Din's newer offerings.

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