| No, except for Yamaha.
Diferents instruments, that indeed are the same model, sound never the same. P. e., a student of mine felt in love with my Bach C. Than he went to NY, to buy one, the same bell and mouthpipe... But that instrument was not the same! Actually was really sh...t! He found after a super Bach C, but a quite diferent model...
Great brands, selling so much trumpets, have diferent qualities or characteristics on the same models that may be good or not for diferent players. So when buying a new instrument, better play it your self before.
Rare exception is Yamaha. You play a model (from a colleague), and if you like it, you buy a new one, and sounds the same. I wonder, how is it possible, but it is. Myself, I bought my piccolo without trying it, my teacher than had the same. And it's really fine.
Buying in Internet, p.e. used horns. I really don't know. Ask too, if possible, why they sell the horn.
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Albert A. Castillo |