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Old 01-12-2008, 03:02 PM   #5 (permalink)
GordonH
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Re: New piccolo trumpet

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Originally Posted by bagmangood View Post
Lol
I meant what brand?

I will come clean its a $400 chinese one.Basically a knock off of the scherzer design but with a larger bore.

The bore on the chinese one is 11.5mm
The Scherzer is 10.4mm

I have no idea if I am playing it in the correct pitch in that test, I just tuned the main slide so all the valves were in tune with each other.

I need to give it a proper test and check the tuning.
Its probably in G...
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