[TPIN] What is the best horn you have played recently?

[Tim Swensen]

> 1.  What is the greatest (you define what that
> means) horn you have played
> recently
> 
> 2.  What style or type of music or performance would
> be best suited for this
> horn?


Probably the best horn I've tried in the past year or
so has been a Getzen Custom Series cornet in C.
It's not often I would use a C cornet, but if I were
an orchestra pro I would have one of these.
This is a friend's horn, and I played it only
briefly, but it was astonishly good.  As I played
the Petrushka "Ballerina's Dance" I thought,
"This is cheating."  It made it that easy.  I could
move from note to note so easily and with such
accuracy, and the sound was great.

I played another one later at the local store, and
it was not as good, but my friend's horn is just
amazing.

I would probably only use this for classical
specialy works, since I have a very nice Schilke
XA-1 that I use for concert band.