Instruments
Clément Saunier plays Antoine Courtois, Paris. Three instruments were developed with the maker and the designer Adrien Jaminet. His page at Antoine Courtois.
B♭ trumpet
Bellecour
Monel valves with top springs, ML bore 11.65 mm, hand-hammered yellow brass bell of 122 mm, ICON 1½ mouthpiece. Named after the Lyon square where Jean-Baptiste Arban lived.
B♭ cornet
Bellecour
The cornet of the same line, the house’s most recent model, supplied with an ICON 5B mouthpiece.
Four trumpets
AC335 Confluence
A professional range of four instruments — two in B♭, two in C — medium or medium-large bore, one-piece hand-hammered bell of 123 mm, standard or inverted leadpipe.