Editing Dizzy Gillespie (section)

===Bent trumpet===
[[File:DIG15178-014 (53537432815).jpg|left|thumb|295x295px|Gillespie's bent trumpet on display in February 2024]]
Gillespie's trademark trumpet featured a bell which bent upward at a 45-degree angle rather than pointing straight ahead as in the conventional design. According to Gillespie's autobiography, this was originally the result of accidental damage caused by the dancers [[Stump and Stumpy]] falling onto the instrument while it was on a trumpet stand on stage at Snookie's in Manhattan on January 6, 1953, during a birthday party for Gillespie's wife Lorraine.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iFJIMu8S7KcC&pg=PA253 |page=253 |title=Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie |last=Maggin |first=Donald L. |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2006 |isbn=0-06-055921-7}}</ref> The constriction caused by the bending altered the tone of the instrument, and Gillespie liked the effect. He had the trumpet straightened out the next day, but he could not forget the tone. Gillespie sent a request to [[Martin Band Instrument Company|Martin]] to make him a "bent" trumpet from a sketch produced by Lorraine, and from that time forward played a trumpet with an upturned bell.<ref name="Hamlin">{{cite web |last1=Hamlin |first1=Jesse |title=A Distinctly American Bent / Dizzy Gillespie's misshapen horn highlights Smithsonian's traveling show |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/A-Distinctly-American-Bent-Dizzy-Gillespie-s-2815807.php |website=SFGate |access-date=July 10, 2018 |date=July 27, 1997}}</ref>

By June 1954 he was using a professionally manufactured horn of this design, and it was to become a trademark for the rest of his life.<ref name="Shipton" />{{rp|258–259}} Such trumpets were made for him by Martin (from 1954), [[King Musical Instruments]] (from 1972) and [[Renold Schilke]] (from 1982, a gift from [[Jon Faddis]]).<ref name="Hamlin" /> Gillespie favored mouthpieces made by [[Al Cass]]. In December 1986 Gillespie gave the [[National Museum of American History]] his 1972 King "Silver Flair" trumpet with a Cass mouthpiece.<ref name="Hamlin" /><ref name="NMAH">{{cite web |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=62 |title=Dizzy Gillespie's B-flat trumpet along with one of his Al Cass mouthpieces |publisher=National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution |access-date=September 8, 2008}}</ref>

In April 1995, Gillespie's Martin trumpet was auctioned at [[Christie's]] in New York City with instruments used by [[Coleman Hawkins]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], and [[Elvis Presley]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mcall.com/1995/04/23/christies-to-auction-prized-martin-guitar-collection-lv-mans-love-to-be-instrument-of-his-retirement/ |page=2 |title=Christie's To Auction Prized Martin Guitar Collection |last=Fisher |first=Don |work=The Morning Call |location=Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania |date=April 23, 1995}}</ref> An image of Gillespie's trumpet was selected for the cover of the auction program. The battered instrument was sold to Manhattan builder Jeffery Brown for $63,000, the proceeds benefiting jazz musicians with cancer.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/417418/BENT-BATTERED-TRUMPET-SELLS-FOR-DIZZY-63000.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060747/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/417418/BENT-BATTERED-TRUMPET-SELLS-FOR-DIZZY-63000.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 21, 2013 |title=Bent, Battered Trumpet Sells For Dizzy $63,000 |work=Deseret News |date=April 26, 1995 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-UCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA111 |title=Object of Desire: Bell Epoque |date=April 24, 1995 |journal=New York Magazine |page=111 |volume=28 |number=17 |issn=0028-7369 |last1=New York Media |first1=LLC }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vAsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60 |page=60 |title=Jazz Blue Notes |last=Macnie |first=Jim |magazine=Billboard |date=May 13, 1995 |volume=107 |number=19 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref>