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I'm purchasing a new Nuvo jHorn which plays in the same register as a Tenor Trombone, Euphonium, & Baritone Horn. It's sort of a Plastic Baritone Horn with Face Rotary Valves & a Multi-Cup Mouthpiece that includes 2 sets of tubes so it can play in both Bb & C.

Please update us with a little performance. I'm always intrigued by alternative instruments.

A buddy got one of those last year.
He said it was only good to use for practicing fingerings when on vacation (plane, hotel, etc). Hope you like yours.

hyperbolica wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 7:47 pm Please update us with a little performance. I'm always intrigued by alternative instruments.

I will when it arrives.

A friend brought a jHorn to a trombone quartet hang one time. When he was using it, it was impossible for any of us to play for more than a few measures without bursting out laughing, as the plastic clacking of the jHorn's valves was louder than every other sound in the room. The sound coming out of the jHorn's bell was the quietest sound in the room, so it was basically solo valve clacks with trombone trio accompaniment.

Based on that experience, I think the jHorn is worth it for the comedic value alone!

I have one. It's fun and useful for working valve fingerings. Work through the Clark technique book and you should be good to double on euphonium.

The valves do clack. Maybe there's a solution, I haven't found one. But they work surprisingly well without lubing.

The biggest problem is the mouthpiece. There's a horn player on youtube doing one of the Mozart horn concerti and he sounds great using his own mouthpiece. But the receiver is a nonstandard taper and not much fits.

The mouthpiece it comes with has rubber inserts that make it small, medium, or large cup. The partials are extremely wonky with the large cup, but the medium makes the low range challenging.

Probably Doug could match the shank taper, but that would cost more than the jHorn.

What I will love about the jHorn is that I can do song covers.