Martin Committee

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The Martin Committee is a make and model of trumpet. It was originally designed in the late 1930s for the Martin Band Instrument Company by a "committee" which included brass instrument makers Renold Schilke, Vincent Bach, Elden Benge, and Foster Reynolds. The horn became widely adopted in jazz music because of its warm, rich sound and flexible intonation.

Miles Davis played custom-made Committees throughout his career. Other notable players include Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Maynard Ferguson, Art Farmer, Wallace Roney, Chris Botti and Matthieu Michel.