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Re: Pete Fountain

Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2015-09-04 04:50

Yeah...I wouldn't necessarily say all V40s are great. From what I understand the changed the spec on them, and at least one of my friends bought a later one that turned out very weak indeed (at least by his review).

I own a couple of really nice ones, though. The keywork is okay...not great...but serviceable, and I did a little adjusting to them.

As far as the sound, I would definitely feel comfortable playing them on indoor/warmer weather gigs if I had to. The biggest difference is depth of sound--my regular horns have more depth, in other words. But these are pretty good. To be honest, I wouldn't play them even on cold weather gigs if they didn't give what I considered to be a representative sound--I'd still be looking!

Eric

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