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Originally Posted by MFfan  Hi Morris, I think he was referring to the 605 model cornet I described in my post. I couldn't get Brassreview this am.
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You are right.
I had a temporary brain meltdown and I gave a link to the King 603 rather than to the King 605.
I assume that the King models are like the Holton models, both of which are Conn-Selmer instruments, in that all of the 600 model instruments are student-level, and the bigger the 600 number indicates the later version / model.
Just as the Holton 602 gave way to the newer Holton 605, the King 602 or whatever gave way to the newer King 605.
From what I can find, the King 605 and the King 603 are exactly alike in bore size, bell size, etc, but the King 605 has the added Shepherd's crook.
Theoretically the King 605 should be just as good quality as the King 603 which was given very good reviews in Brass Review.
I briefly owned a Holton 602 and it was the best student-level instrument I ever tried, better than the Bach 300 or the Yamaha 2320 I tried.
From what I have seen in other people's comments elsewhere, the Conn-Selmer-made King 600-level trumpets are the same great quality as the Conn-Selmer-made Holton 600-level trumpet I liked.
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I find my cornets play easier and open in the higher register than any of my trumpets, for some reason. Love that cornet sound also.
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I guess the cornet mouthpiece and mouthpiece receiver are slightly smaller than for trumpet, which aids in the upper register, then the cornet's conical bore that immediately follows it gives that superior open tone.
As long as one has the cornet bore no bigger than .460 and the mouthpiece is sufficiently shallow, the tone can easily be mistaken for an incredibly beautiful trumpet tone rather than sounding like a cornet.
But then switch to a very deep mouthpiece and it is back to sounding like a cornet.
I love that versatility.
A student-level cornet that can provide a more beautiful sounding upper register trumpet sound than many professional trumpets, simply because it has a more conical bore than the trumpet.
I hope the original poster of this thread experiments with different mouthpieces and sounds and comes to love his cornet as much as I love mine.
- Morris