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Dale Proctor · 03-04-2007, 11:31 PM

I think your problem is switching to a Yamaha after playing a Connstellation for years. The Yamaha probably needs a different mouthpiece, and you are used to playing a .438 bore horn. The Conn is a great horn, well designed around the small bore, but a Yamaha is different, and you will probably have to "learn" to play it.

I'm in the opposite situation right now. I played a Bach Strad for years and bought a Conn 6B Victor trumpet (very similar to the Connstellation). My trusty 3C didn't work, and the Conn responds very differently from the Bach. I'm "learning" the Conn with a Connstellation mouthpiece, and am having good luck so far.

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Dale Proctor Mezzo Forte User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Heart of Dixie Posts: 752	Re: New horn = bad tone I think your problem is switching to a Yamaha after playing a Connstellation for years. The Yamaha probably needs a different mouthpiece, and you are used to playing a .438 bore horn. The Conn is a great horn, well designed around the small bore, but a Yamaha is different, and you will probably have to "learn" to play it. I'm in the opposite situation right now. I played a Bach Strad for years and bought a Conn 6B Victor trumpet (very similar to the Connstellation). My trusty 3C didn't work, and the Conn responds very differently from the Bach. I'm "learning" the Conn with a Connstellation mouthpiece, and am having good luck so far. __________________ "Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away." - Sir Thomas Beecham Olde Towne Brass www.otbrass.com Brass Band of Huntsville www.brassbandofhuntsville.org Last edited by Dale Proctor; 03-04-2007 at 11:35 PM.