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Old 03-03-2004, 10:35 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Welk
OK, I agree with that but there is a physic point here. A silver plated horn WILL sound bright. A gold plated horn will sound dark... this is physical, the tone color of different metal vibration. You can't denied that. Of course a begginer student will have a crappy sound on a 3000$ gold plated horn, but he will have a dark crappy sound. The main reason why people get to buy different mpc/ horn is for the color of the sound they what to play.
A silver plated horn will look like a silver plated horn. That horn played by different musicians can take on a whole spectrum of colors.
All horns plated in silver do NOT sound bright. The same can be said about gold-plated horns. Faddis plays a gold plated Schilke, dark does not come to mind when describing Jon's sound. When I play Jon's horn I sound like me. I have played Wynton's hernia provoking horn........... I sound like me.
In most american symphonies, silver plated Bach C trumpets are still much in vogue, bright is not the term most would use to depict those sounds.
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