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Originally Posted by latinjazzcat Just to add some fuel to the fire....anyone else think they've started to turn things around? I tried many horns at Washington Music Center, including Conn, Kanstul, Schilke, Yamaha, the Bach in my signature and a used Bach. The used one didn't particularly stand out, but the new one (and the one I ended up with) was hands down the best horn out of the bunch (with a Conn V1 with a rose brass bell a VERY close second). Perhaps it was a fluke and they accidentally made a great horn, but I think it'd be pretty hard to unintentionally produce quality. |
For the past two weeks we have had a trumpet instructor from the local university (acquired her M. Mus at University of Louisiana) over to do workshops with our community band trumpet section. She commented that when she started out she purchased a strad and has had it ever since. She also went on to say that she has recently tried some of her students' new strads and is beginning to think it is time to maybe get a new one. I'm guessing that she would have purchased her instrument about in the late 70's.
I owned a very late 80's strad ('89). It was full of quality control problems and tuning issues. I haven't seen nor played one of the new ones (say, 2000 or later).