Yamaha YCR-4330 GSII Cornet

I am an amateur trumpet player for 18 years at the moment. I attended conservatory classes for 10 years and participated in all kinds of ensembles, bands and orchestras. I wanted to get a decent cornet to further enrich my musical experience.

At the moment I owned the cornet for around a year and I can say it totally fulfilled my expectations. The instrument is remarkably easy to play when I compare it to my Bach trumpet. Well intonated, free blowing and responsive in every dynamic. The sound is rich and gentle in all the register. Although the valves were a little sticky the first weeks they work now perfectly (after a year and around 150 hours of playing. See manufacturer guidelines on maintenance).

I play it with a mouthpiece 1 1/4 C. I can say that I expected the instrument to behave more "conical", closer to what a flugelhorn sounds like. With this mouthpiece it would fall in the middle of trumpet/flugelhorn spectrum to me.

The only complain I have, and I don't think this is a particularity of this instrument is: after playing for a long time I get sometimes some water noise that I can not remove using the water keys. The only solution I found is to remove the mouthpiece and blow violently through the leadpipe pressing the valves so the "stuck" water goes away by the bell.

If you are an intermediate student or an amateur I think this cornet is a very interesting option with a fair price (898€ for me in 2022).

Ich habe schon auf verschiedenen Kornetts gespielt und ich muss sagen, dieses Kornett hat einen wunderschönen Klang, gerade in der Höhe lässt es sich wesentlich schöner spielen als die Besson Instrumente (welche aber leichter schön in der Tiefe zu spielen sind) ähnlicher Preisklasse.
Leider hatte ich Pech was die Qualität der Ventile anging, zuerst haben bei mir alle Ventile gehakt und waren sehr schwergängig, nach einigem spielen, neuen Federn und einem feineren Ventilöl ist das behoben. Nun schwingt aber die Feder im ersten Ventil mit und erzeugt Störgeräusche.
Alles in allem bin ich entäuscht von der Yamaha untypisch schlechten Qualität, ich weiß aber von anderen deren Yamaha-Kornett einwandfrei funktioniert.

Lo strumento è arrivato in perfette condizioni.
Strumento da studio che non pretende niente ma il suo lavoro lo fa.... intonato, preciso e facile ma se vuoi qualcosa di più con yamaha devi salire di prezzo.
La fabbricazione non può essere eccellente visto il costo ma se hai bisogno uno strumento da usare ogni tanto e che deve essere subito pronto questo fa per te.... ottimo per principianti.