cornetmike

I'm rather ignorant on the subject, so enlighten me, guys and gals...
(can I get away with playing a lightweight trumpet in the community orchestra? Everyone else plays Strad 180/37's...)

Happy Holidays! cornetmike

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wiseone2

Do you really think the violas will know the difference 8)

Play what you sound best on.

Wilmer

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Heavens2kadonka

Our concert band consists of 8 trumpets. I play in the 3rd section, with a Getzen custom lightweight and a Bach 47.

Nothing kills the ears and destroys the musical senses like hearing a blaring, cutting, laser-beam, knife-in-the-gentials, marching band sound that lightweights tend to produce....In a delicate concert piece. When you push dynamics on a lightweight, it tends to produce that sound. Controlling a lightweight is a completely different game than with a normal or even heavyweight. Of course, some people think the normalweights are too "vanilla" and the heavyweights have a "dead" sound....

So anyway, if you can control the lightweight bell, and you have the musical ear to blend with a section, AND that is the horn you play best with, you are set.

Y'know, it would have been easier to just say "I agree with Mr. Wilmer."

Van

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