Reviews are interesting, if entirely without actual value. Endorsers are only in it for the money.
My principle instrument is the drums and the world of drum kits really is an appalling cesspool of the professional opinion-giver and brand tart. Billy Cobham, anyone?
The only thing to do is test the hooters yourself and entrust the actual sound to a friend of tutor with decent ears. I never trust what I hear as being an authentic record of what noise is actually coming out of the end, or “spout” as Lyndon Baglin put it.
My only criterion for a euphonium is does it make a pleasing sound? Every other facet can be adjusted or developed.
I remember a guy coming to the music shop I worked and trying six Besson Prestige euphoniums and rejected them all because top c# didn’t speak properly. Hours of wasted time on a note that he would play not even 0.025% of the time. He’d convinced himself that was the most important thing and because he’d come by himself then confused himself. He’d been told what to think by other people, and read every conceivable review imaginable.
Reviews are, in my opinion, completely without merit, although it is interesting to see people tie themselves in knots trying to explain, or worse, demonstrate what they think.
My principle instrument is the drums and the world of drum kits really is an appalling cesspool of the professional opinion-giver and brand tart. Billy Cobham, anyone?
The only thing to do is test the hooters yourself and entrust the actual sound to a friend of tutor with decent ears. I never trust what I hear as being an authentic record of what noise is actually coming out of the end, or “spout” as Lyndon Baglin put it.
My only criterion for a euphonium is does it make a pleasing sound? Every other facet can be adjusted or developed.
I remember a guy coming to the music shop I worked and trying six Besson Prestige euphoniums and rejected them all because top c# didn’t speak properly. Hours of wasted time on a note that he would play not even 0.025% of the time. He’d convinced himself that was the most important thing and because he’d come by himself then confused himself. He’d been told what to think by other people, and read every conceivable review imaginable.
Reviews are, in my opinion, completely without merit, although it is interesting to see people tie themselves in knots trying to explain, or worse, demonstrate what they think.
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