| Yeah, but Lara, you own an Eclipse!
I've had a couple of situations where I played a trumpet that I thought was just going to be great, and I didn't like it at all. One that immediately comes to mind is a Callet Superchops. Another one was a Schilke X4.
And then there were the Bachs here and there that just didn't impress me at all.
Over the years, due to some personal experiences, I have come to believe that if the mouthpiece doesn't fit correctly in the receiver, even the best of horns can feel like a clinker to those play testing them. I once had a mouthpiece adjusted for gap, and it made a sudden and dramatic improvement in how MY trumpet played, and I didn't realize how much I was fighting with it until the gap was properly adjusted.
But then there are horns that seem to play really well no matter what mouthpiece is stuck into them, so that somewhat blows that theory out of the water.
I'll continue to keep an open mind about the Cannonball until I've had the chance to try one, but at this point, my personal setup is so good that it's going to take one heck of a trumpet to be better than what I currently have.
__________________ Patrick Gleason
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