| Looks like a student line cornet to me. I've never seen the KT make, though.
Cornets are a cousin to the trumpet. Cornets are shaped a bit differently and have a richer, more mellow sound than a trumpet, which is a bit more brilliant.
Looks from the picture like a lacquered brass finish, rather than silver.
There are basically three levels of instruments: student, designed for beginners, usually fairly sturdy because they are generally used by younger kids and so take a good bit of abuse. Then are intermediate, which are a bit more costly, sometimes have some professional features (thumb hook on first valve slide, for example) and are used by a good amount of middle school and younger high school kids. Professional models are built to be played and to respond well with great precision. Not capable of handling theabuse or lack of care that a student or even intermediate horn would be subjected to.
The clue to me that this is a student model is the removable ring on the 3rd valve slide, the way the instrument is wrapped and (mainly) the fact that it seems to be not a major manufacturer.
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