Registered: November 2006 Location: Ithaca NY Posts: 1
Review Date: 4/6/2007
Would you recommend the horn? Yes |
Price you paid?: $1,900.00
| Rating: 8
Pros:
Light, bright and responsive
Cons:
Dents easily
Makes my strad seem stuffy.
bjhm85 Junior Member
Registered: May 2008 Location: columbia, mo Posts: 3
Review Date: 5/29/2008
Would you recommend the horn? Yes |
Price you paid?: $1,250.00
| Rating: 9
Pros:
bright, snappy sound
Cons:
don't bring this to concert band or orchestra
If you're a lead player, but don't really get into the whole small-bore thing, this is it. This horn is actually smaller in the bell flare instead of the bore, which will get you the resistance you want without feeling stuffy. The horn plays bright automatically. It's such a difference from, say, a Bach strad, when it comes to the amount of effort it will take you to cut through a group. The horn is very lively and cuts through with minimal effort. As an added bonus, the Schilke step-bore allows you to play just as loudly in the middle register without destroying your tone quality. I just felt a much higher degree of control over this horn than my strad; mainly because I don't have to fight this horn to get the lead sound I want. The slotting in the extreme highs is vastly superior to any other horn I've played. My only complaint has been the valves, but my B2 is a Yamalloy valve model... which, at least for me, isn't as terrible as I've heard of. The valves stick about as much as my Strad's do... but I think I got lemon'ed on the strad's valves, too...
Bottom line: Outstanding lead horn, especially if you don't really like the small-bore .450 horns. But don't play legit stuff on it. I put a Bach 1C in it and it was still bright.
