Andy Taylor, Born c.1965
tRUMPET MAKER
Andy Taylor spent the first fifteen years of his life as a Frech horn maker at the renowned London firm of Paxmans. He specialized as a bell maker, and rose to run the whole workshop. In the 1980s, Paxman was still making everything in-house, including the valve sections. This gave Andy opportunity to learn most aspects of horn making from scratch. After leaving Paxman and relocating to Norwich in 1990, where his wife held a job as a micro-biologist, Andy took a new path, making trumpets rather than horns. Andy’s instruments looked like normal trumpets at first, but they had a sound that interested players who liked a warmer tone. To satisfy this market, Andy created imaginative-looking trumpets that would not only sound different, but also look different, and which were more affordable. His trumpets are now sold all over the world, and have become collectors’ iems.