Originally Posted By: PeterGannon
For clarification, does it play in perfect tune, or is it up to you to make it play in tune by the way you blow it?

According to my guitar tuner, it plays sharp without pulling the mouthpiece out.

Once I've pulled the mouthpiece out about a quarter inch, the F is sharp and the B is flat - according to the tuner, around 20 cents. The other notes seem pretty much on pitch. YMMV - I'm pretty much a rank amateur.

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And by "is it harder to play" I was referring to the effort required by the mouth to blow and make the sound, not the hands on the horn.

It doesn't require much pressure. I had my (rather unwilling) 14 year old try it last night. It took her a couple of minutes to figure out how to get a sound from it, but once she did, she didn't consider it hard to blow.

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Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?