note360

a student horn is one you wrestle with and a pro horn is one you make love with.

This of course is not true all the time, but basically at a certain point you will just snap at your student horn and have an urge to trhoguh it through a wall. With a pro horn horn you will just call it bad names alot :)

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"I'll play it and tell you what it is later." - Miles Davis
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Trumpets:
TR300 Bach [marching horn]
Big Apple Bach Strad (ML)

Cornets:
1952 Olds Ambassador L.A

Mouthpiece: Curry 5c, Olds 3 (for the cornet atm)

edcon1981

you guys are right though, with there being a marked difference between a student horn and a professional horn. i've had the same bundy since i started playin fifteen years ago, it's the only horn i've ever owned or played. recently i joined a drum and bugle corps that issued me a kanstul custom class ksb100.

now i love my bundy, and am in it just to play. i don't know anything about brands or history or quality, but after practicing with the kanstul and then going back to the bundy, i'm very disappointed. this is why i'm in the market for a new intermediate-professional horn (i'm sure some of you have seen my thread "when? and what?").

the information provided thus far as been useful. question though, are kanstul horns an "upper class" of horn, if you will?

Smirnus

Few people know as much about manufacturing brass as Zig Kanstul. Not only to they make their own line, but they've produced for many other brands. Callet, Zeus, F. Besson, Max, Burbank and a few others were made by Kanstul.

regularsopguy

Kanstul instruments are very much professional horns. they claim not to make a student model at all.