| Larry,
Yes I know what you mean. High notes are fun, but really blown out of proportion. Some of my favorite recordings ... old Doc LP's, Sinatra with Gozzo on lead ... a G was it, and then sparingly. Guys like Roger & Wayne, and Faddis (as you mentioned them) really rasied the bar for us guys, who struggle to figure out which end of the horn to stick the mpc into!
But back to your original question ... in retrospect ... horns with ml (.459 - .460) bores work best for me. I have a very hard time playing large bore trumpets for example a Getzen Eterna Severinsen Lg bore (did John Audino play one of those?) Schilke X3, large bore Holtons (St 302 MF Horn) or the large bore Calicchio Freddie Hubbard configuration. And, while it was a great sounding trumpet!!!! and I mean great!!! a few years back when Kanstul was making the Besson Meha's ... 5 minutes & I was dead!
Michael
Southern FL
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