| Hi Nick,
I'm not sure what you mean. I went to the Schagerl web site and looked at their horns again. I couldn't find a picture of a horn with a second water key. The pro models have two keys (that look like water keys but aren't) on top of the tuning slide that are only for placing high notes and the only water key is the one on the side of the horn.
The second trumpet player in a brass quintet that I play in has a Schagerl(I believe a D1). This is one very nice sounding horn. It is in tune, the valves are very fast and the workmanship is top notch. They have a manufacturing specialty- the slides on the valves are made from single pieces of tubing-no solder joints. Also the tubes joining the valves are seemless. They have switchable leadpipes so you can really fine-tune the horn.
Rotary valves are just so precise. For german Romantic music I won't play anything else (unless I have to).
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