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There is nothing wrong with a heavy trumpet.
The problem is with people. Most guys tend to put down whatever equipment they do not use. If they use a lightweight horn, heavy horns are junk. If they play brand "A", nothing else is as good. Play and enjoy what works for you and don't worry about what other people think.
A friend of mine is a real "Schilke Loyalist", he talked me into buying a Schilke trumpet after playing a Courtois for over 20 years. Guess what? The Schilke was a great horn! When I switched to a Lawler, he proclaimed that Lawlers were nowhere near the quality of Schilke. Boy was HE wrong. When I got my Eclipse, he refused to even try it out, said he "heard bad things about those horns". I really don't think he had really ever heard OF them! I left the Eclipse in the music store showroom with another friend while I spoke with someone in the repair shop. When I came back front he had the first valve slide off and was blowing through it trying to find leaks. After he left the store owner said that that person had declared the Eclipse a "peice of junk". He reputation suffered with the staff after that.
It wouldn't matter what I brought in, if it wasn't a Schilke, to him it was junk.
That's how people are....put down what you don't have....especially if it costs more than what you play, or can afford.
-cw-
Last edited by Solar Bell : 10-09-2006 at 07:20 AM.
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