Would you recommend the horn? Yes |
Price you paid?: $2,100.00
| Rating: 0
Pros:
tight
Cons:
none
an outstanding horn, one of the best pieces of brass i ever played.
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Review Date: 3/31/2008
Would you recommend the horn? Yes |
Price you paid?: $1,200.00
| Rating: 9
Pros:
Superb workmanship and playability
Cons:
Too trumpet-like
This cornet is manufactured in the British style, for brass band or solo use. It has superb quality of manufacture, typical of all Schilke products. It plays easily, and well in tune. Very nice tone quality in all registers. It plays like a large bore cornet, even though it is medium large.
The cornet is made with a Schilke copper trumpet bell, which I feel is a weakness of the instrument. Also, it is uncertain which mouthpiece should be used to play this cornet; Schilke cornet mouthpieces are really trumpet mouthpieces, and do not play well; Denis Wick mouthpieces work better, such as the 4B or 3B.
Its weaknesses are its rather bright tone quality, and trumpet-like characteristics.
Over all this is an outstanding cornet, and probably the best American-made cornet.
For the high price, I would recommend trying out a Smith-Watkins large bore 0.470 cornet, which is a true British cornet, and plays just as well or better than the Schilke.
Robert
