Since this board seems to be goig slow, this might speed it up.
I choose the Yamaha student models.

I would agree with you that the yahama student models are the worst. I used to play one until I got my bach strad. You can imagine the difference. Or at least I used to think that the student yamaha was the worst trumpet out there, but then a girl I play with got a trumpet from Target! The piece of junk is not even worthy of being called a trumpet. It is so out of tune all of the time that the instrument is practically pitched in the key of B...natural. She got it off the internet for one or two hundred dollars. I think it is a shame that people are even willing to sell such piles of crap.

Apparently, Besson make really bad trumpets, even though they're a big name in cornet manufacturing.

I just realized I copied Spiri's topic... Sorry!

OH, you think you know the worst trumpets?
Have you ever seen a trumpet's valves rust over just because they got some spit and valve oil on them?
Well it happened to my friend's First Act.
BTW< all of the First Act instruments are terrible.
And another bad Trumpet maker: Monique.
Little known company based somewhere in the east, like Taiwan or something.
The whole thing won't make a sound, somehow the air gets blocked, even though the valves are correctly put in.
Blake.

Holy!!!!