| I've always been a one-horn kind of a guy. For me, I got to a point where I just "knew" my horn and because of that, I didn't have to think about what or how or why, I just thought music and for the most part it happened. That was at a point in my playing career when my chops, both mental and physical, were at their highest. By switching horns, (Bbs anyway) it automatically changed EVERYTHING. It changed slotting, pitch, timbre, resistance, etc. So much so that because my chops were so used to working toward maximum efficiency to resonate the one horn, as soon as I switched, it just felt wrong.
The only exception to that was switching to a different keyed trumpet in which case I expected everything to be different so I never really looked at it as a problem.
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