If you are just in a past beginner state of horn playing, why do you think so much about buying a new one ? Keep your money together until you have advanced to a higher class of playing. I had a 14-year boy in a recent class in New Zealand. He played on a old single F military no name horn & produced a very nice sound. I tried the horn & played a solo piece for the class, as I liked the sound of the horn.
It is the player, who makes the sound. Keep the old school horn in good condition & care about if it were yours & new. Study carefully to advance. (Remember: I said Carefully not Hard). If you have arrived at near pro level (or higher class amateur level), you have enough time & money to shop around for your own new horn. Check the bumpers on your valves, use some thicker oil for he linkage to reduce the noise. Watch, if the valves rattle if you play common stuff or if they just get noisy when you try to move them fast, which does not happen in the literature except for valve trills. =========================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 4:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Hornlist] Horn Buying Hello everyone, Im thinking of buying a horn for myself, Im a freshman in HS and I am playing on a repaired Holton H180 (in 8th grade i was playing on a Holton H179, the valves sounded like a percusion section.). _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
