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Re: Horn Or Player

Author: Kaos
Date: 2019-09-06 03:24

Player, like Paul Aviles said.
A pro horn only helps making things easier.

I am a young conservatory student that can't afford a professional horn so I'm still playing a Yamaha 26II MSUK my parents bought me 2nd hand as new.
My teacher said that my tone quality is so good that for now I can continue my studies and play in orchestra with it.
To be honest a pro horn is way easier to play and get a nice sound out of it, but if you learn to play good with what you have you can develop great tone quality and professional sound even from a student horn.

Of course if you "professionally"play a student model it should be good quality from a reputable brand (Yamaha, Buffet etc. not cheap chinese horns), kept in perfect working order and regularly serviced, replace the stock mouthpiece with a better one (I have vandoren B45), and you have to get the best tuning as possibile (I got a 66mm Yamaha barrel instead of the 64mm it came with) because student models often tend to play sharp.

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