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Review Date: 5/7/2006
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Would you recommend the horn? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 7
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Pros:
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Easy to play loud on, free blowing, durable, great for marching/corps
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Cons:
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Tuning, tone at times, wouldn't reccomend for indoor work
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I had to march one of these all summer at a drum and bugle corps over the course of a 90 day tour. It's of a larger bore so you can really pump some air , ideal for outdoor work. Also, the horn is pretty durable and has forgivable plating in the inevitable instance of a scrape or bump. In fact, we had a horn get stepped on, and the bell section was crushed. When it came time to fix the huge dent there wasn't any loss of plating and it came completely out.
Now the cons. Obviously when they designed the horn they decided to gear it for tuning in warm conditions, which is normally a good thing for marching weather. However, should the temperature drop below 80 or so it'll pull you 20 to 30 cents out. Also I would have to say that the tone does not match up to a Strad or other comparable horn. Due to the fact that most indoor temperatures are in fact below 80, you don't usually have to blast the walls down, and most people seek out the best tone possible, I would not reccomend this horn for indoor work.
In short, if need this horn for outdoor work, spring for it. This would be a great horn for protecting a more delicate "indoor" horn from the rigors of marching. I love my Strad, but there is no way I would subject it to the punishment of corps. I might even go so far as to say this horn might be used as an intermediate horn, but see the cons above. All around, I'd say it's a decent horn.
*Note : The cons that I have noted were found during a summer of playing for between 8 and 14 hours a day (dci.org). These cons may or may not apply to indoor performance. However, from my experience playing indoors with one, on fresh chops, they do. They don't show up on my personal horn.
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Unregistered
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Review Date: 8/24/2006
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Would you recommend the horn? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Loud, rugged, cheap, good projection, better intonation over previous horn (the old marching trumpet)
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Still only suitable for outdoor work (what it was designed for), tuning is still kinda rough, thumb saddle takes getting used to, takes getting used to to make it sound like an indoor horn
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Hey, it's the same guy as above. I re-marched this summer and my corps was supplied with the "new" marching trumpet. More or less the same as the old ones with a slightly different bell angle (I think it's angled at about 10 degrees above the lead pipe) and an angled third valve saddle. There were slight improvements made to the toning and tuning of the horn as well. Honestly I couldn't tell if it was heavier or lighter, but as a whole, this horn played better than last year. Most things in the above review still hold true. Basically, slightly better than before, but nothing groundbreakingly different.
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