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Originally Posted by drac ...The sound you get on that horn is too spread out and uneven. If you can focus it, it plays relatively well but it was way too responsive for my taste. Every nuiance in my airstream or lip pressure showed up in my sound. This is something I am not used to. It may have been improved with a standard tuning slide as opposed to the rounded one, but there was not one available. I can see this horn being good for lead work but not the greatest for solo work. Just my opinion... |
Drac, it sounds to me that although you may not like it in the beginning, I believe that if you were to switch to this horn cold turkey, you would probably adapt to the exceptional response very quickly, you would probably end up really liking it, and you would be a better player because of it.
You mentioned that it accentuated every nuance. Could this be akin to the fact that many trumpets have their own little quirks (I know my Strad sure does!) and because you are used to having to automatically adjust for those, you were trying to do that with this horn too? The difference would be that this horn might be a more accurate horn in terms of slotting and intonation and doesn't require the lipping and adjusting that you automatically do with your horn, and because of it's superior response, it really shows through when you play it. Again, I think that given the chance to adapt and adjust to it, you would end up really liking this horn. Then again, without having actually played it, I can't say for sure. :)