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I spent the weekend mowing our acreage and playing the Wild Thing. OK...I will admit that I spent more time with the Wild Thing than with the mower. I am a big believer in the value of constructive criticism. If you don't know what the problem is, you can't fix it, right? But try as hard as I can, I can't find anything negative to say about the Wild Thing with the No. 1 slide.
It produces a beautiful tone. Everybody that I have played for has commented on the tone of this trumpet.
Somebody in a previous review mention the flat metal finger pads. I noticed these right off and thought they looked a bit different. I am surprised and how fast I have gotten use to them, and how comfortable they actually feel on the fingers.
I am handling the large bore just fine. As I play the horn more in the higher register, I am finding that it does indeed take more air to produce the sound I want up there. Maybe better breath control is a better way to describe it. I find with the larger bore that I really have to support my air flow from the gut more. That is not a bad thing either, because when I concentrate on proper breathe control I find the I can get the same tone quality playing C above the staff as second line G.
However, I will say that I still have trouble handling the horn with the No. 2 slide in. It is just harder to play, and I don't care for the tone quality that I produce with that slide. But I can definitely see why some people would want to change the slides for different types of music or different settings.
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Dick Taylor
Georgia
Comeback Player
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