This is a very nice trumpet for a beginer/intermediate musician to consider. The valves are nice, but the intonation is a little sketchy. Everyone plays differently, but for me, I have to pull the tuning slide almost all the way out to be in tune. Overall it is a beautiful trumpet! ;) (y)

I lucked out. This horn makes me sound great. It's easy to start a note and to get the control for the right note with no fuzz. The big boys envy me my horn.

My band teacher played this trumpet when i first got it and said he could have mistaked it for a stard if he was blind folded, anyway though i really like it , its fun and easy to play and looks amazing. the only thing i dont like about it is that if you miss just one day of practice, you feel it the next day...and dont even bother trying to play a difficult song after more then 3 days without playing it....it seems to realize when you've played over trumets and gets jealous and doesnt seem to play right,,,but i love it, id recommened it to anyone playing in highschool bands and maybe a year or two in college looking for a cheap, but good strumpet.

It sounds nice, but it is not good for a lead player. It's lasted me through my junior year of high school, but as music becomes harder, the instrument plays worse. Without a 3F mouthpiece, I cannot play above C in tune.