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| Author | Topic: York Preference Eb Tenor Horn |
| Ron |
posted 1/13/08 9:23 PM
Anyone played a York Preference Eb Tenor Horn, (model# YO-TH3050)? Priced competative with the besson and yamaha, but I wonder if it's any good. |
| Andrew |
posted 2/10/08 7:09 PM
I havent played one, but its the same as the old besson, the one with the dodgy valves, its the same model with an awkwardly placed trigger pressed by your little finger. |
| Chris |
posted 3/25/08 6:45 AM
I played it and didnt care for it at all actually. The biggest grievance wasnt the tone, which was good, but every note using the third valve was off pitch. The C# sounded nearly like a D. Seriously, it was closer. The actual Low D was a quarter tone up to an E flat. There was a marked difference between using a 1-2 and a 3 false fingering, so that habit would never be a reliable choice for any trill. I tried moving the 1-3 slides...no luck since the pitch variability on each note was frustrating. If everything was sharp, you could just ease out the slide for instance. Not so. Each note was different in the amount of its being out of tune. Like tuning a bad guitar, one string at a time, moving string to string, and never getting it.This convinced that it was me that I was doing things wrong, so I tried to get used to the tuning slide trigger while playing to compensate for all the uncentered slots on the horn, but it became so wierd that it was really playing a trombone. Envisioned five years of use to get the hang of it. Admittedly, if you did, the horn would sound good since the tone was good, but I didnt want to relearn the whole thing over again.Not trying to be harsh here, but the Yamaha student model played with more center across all ranges. For all the talk, I was expecting to hear something remarkable; a truly easier horn to play, with great range and facility. I cant recommend this horn and look forward to finally trying a Besson and an Amati 611--stung by the York price so much that I dont want to take money into account anymore and am willing to give lower end horns a shot if this is how it is. |
| tenorhorn10 |
posted 5/8/08 2:41 PM
I've bought a york preference (without a trigger) I think it is a fantastic instrument. I haven't experienced and tuning problems with it. I have played an old round stamp sov, a yamaha and can say that the York is far better. |
| Chris |
posted 8/13/08 12:19 AM
I'm glad someone found a good one, thanks T10. In retrospect to this post I've been thinking it may have been a one-off build problem. I really couldnt center anything. In the end I fell for a Besson 752, and its just been perfect. I cant beleive how light and facile it goes up and down, even with a decent pedal C for the Hummel concerto :) Everything centered, all the false fingerings are almost identical in tone to the true, and with a little adjustment of the valve slides, sounds really good all the way up to high D. Sorry to be so neg on the last post, I just didnt like it. This new horn will keep me for a good while. |
| HD |
posted 8/30/08 9:01 AM
I agree with Chris's view the first time, i had the same problems, you werent imagining it dont worry! i think you get good ones and bad ones! who knows? |
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