As
with any great dark chocolate,
there are still plenty of
bright, fruity notes in this
sound, but also loads of cocoa
butter fattening up everything
you play. In other words, this
horn produces
a full-bodied sound complete
with shiny overtones, but it was
nicknamed "Dark Chocolate"
because of the incredible
abundance of warmth it produces
in all registers, at
all dynamics.
Soloists
looking for a horn to bring as
much depth and body to
their sound as possible, with a
predisposition towards playing
warm & sweet, yet still
capable of entering Beast-Mode
and soaring over any sized
ensemble... will adore this
horn.
Our Medium cup mouthpieces pair
spectacularly with this horn,
especially in Nickel Silver. Of
course, a Large or XL cup will
obviously have a huge tone, but
the really amazing combo with
this horn is just how rich and
full-bodied the
medium cups sound,
with the horn applying a filter
of deep, saturated tone color,
while the cup simultaneously
sets off a canopy of shimmering
fireworks over everything. It’s
an out-of-this-world sound for a
soloist in any style -- just a
tremendous amount of
full-spectrum trumpet presence
in either the largest or the
most intimate of spaces.
And all the while, it plays with
shocking stability which
absolutely gives you wings to go
places you’d never even dare to try for
on your old horn.
