Hello, my girlfriend is currently a senior in highschool and is wanting to perform in music and or become a band instructor. She owns a crap brand single horn and is borrowing a old Lorenzo double horn from school. The Lorenzo sounds bright but isn't a "conn 8D sound" meaning it's not suited for most classical music. She's about to start recording her audition pieces soon for college so advice from horn teachers and college students would be very much liked. Thank you all for your time.

Sorry, I have no clue. Most professors do understand that the player is often limited to a used high school horn, so it shouldn't be the deciding factor.

i belive horns themselves don't matter at all, it's the person that plays it that counts. I used to have an old beat up dented king and it sounded beautifull, but later i got my holton and i realized it had the same sound, so i was kinda dissapointed... anywho, go to a music store and ask them if your girlfriend can try any horns, see if it makes a diffrence. it might just be her.

No, the horn itself does make the difference. We went to dillons and tried conns, kings, maybe a reynolds, and holtons. She has also tried an olds. The Lorenzo horn she's using has a much brighter tone than the conns and holtons. Just looking at how its built makes it so bright. 12" bell, small throat, light weight, smaller bore, and raw brass.

No, the horn itself does make the difference. We went to dillons and tried conns, kings, maybe a reynolds, and holtons. She has also tried an olds. The Lorenzo horn she's using has a much brighter tone than the conns and holtons. Just looking at how its built makes it so bright. 12" bell, small throat, light weight, smaller bore, and raw brass.

in that case, she has to get a horn that is a larger bore, and maybe a diffrent metal, because if the tone is way super bright, then a new horn is the best thing to do. hope my advice helps!

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in that case, she has to get a horn that is a larger bore,a deeper throat and maybe a diffrent metal, because if the tone is way super bright, then a new horn is the best thing to do. hope my advice helps!

Unless you have been asked to play set pieces, then you should choose music which sounds good and can be played musically. The Conn 8D sound is really a speciality which is not universal - well uncommon outside the US although it may be a bias for the colleges you are considering. That sound is not necessarily appropriate for much of the solo repertoire.