Please help - Need Trumpet Info asap!

[oogywawa]

My Big Brother (45) is a professional trumpet player (among other things) since his teens. He knows his stuff (He graduated from Berkley, Boston in the 80's). Here's the problem, w/out going into great detail. He damaged is silver "strat" (I think) that he's had for over 20 years...I do believe that it's Ka-put (nothing slides, 2 of the 3 stick). He's down on his funds presently & will not take charity or a loan, (esp. from his baby sister). HOWEVER.. His B-day is in 2 weeks.

A friend of mine who's a professional flaminco guitar player forwarded me a lead on this trumpet for sale: cost $120. I do not know how old it is.

Silver Martin, Brio,
.459 bore,
1st & 3rd slide hooks.

The seller says that: Action is fast, no slides stick. Cosmetic crease on bell. Includes 7C and 1.5C mouthpieces and Schlossberg method book.

IS THIS A GOOD DEAL? sounds really cheap to me. Is this beginer's model or something? What should I look for when I go see it?

Any input you have would be GREATLY appreciated. So if you don't know, please call up a buddy who plays the horn & ask him for me.

Thanks & take care,
Kate:
hioogywawa@yahoo.com
:twisted:

[gary]

Kate, Martins are good horns but I don't know what a Brio model is. Maybe someone here can help but you might get a wider range of responses if you post on the Trumpet Herald forum which is analogous to this one for trumpet players: http://www.trumpetherald.com/index.php?sid=8e2841858df7c399ddfba14d4edaa90d