Thomas Gansch (born 31 December 1975 in

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) is a well-known Vienna-based Austrian trumpet player. In 1992 the brass septet Mnozil Brass was founded in which he has since played first trumpet. In 1999 he was invited to the

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, a renowned European

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.
Later he founded his own "little big band", Gansch & Roses.
Thomas Gansch performs on an unusual looking, self designed

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, commonly referred to as the ''"Gansch Horn,"'' that resembles a standard jazz B trumpet but with a rotary valve system. The instrument is made by the Austrian manufacturer Schagerl. Gansch uses this with a Bach 3B megatone trumpet mouthpiece.Anon.
Das "Gansch-Horn" zum Fünfzigsten
(Archive from 10 December 2008, accessed 15 February 2015).

Family

He grew up in a musical family: * His father Johann Gansch was a renowned Austrian composer and pedagogue for brass music instruments. He was called the "marching king". * His older brother Hans Gansch (born 1953) is a trumpet soloist and professor of trumpet studies at the Salzburg

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. He was principal trumpeter in the

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from 1982–1996. Thomas began his studies at Vienna music school at the age of 15.

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