Yamaha YSL-354 E Bb-Trombone

Le Yamaha YSL-354 E est mon 2ème trombone.
Trompettiste de formation, on m'a offert il y a 1 an et demi le Startone SSL-45 Bb-Tenor.

Je n'ai pas pu évaluer le Startone (il s'agissait d'un cadeau), mais je profite pour le recommander à ceux qui veulent s'essayer à la coulisse sans se ruiner. Ce trombone fait vraiment bien l'affaire pour débuter.

Période d'initiation passée, je me suis donc offert le Yamaha YSL-354 E. De très bonne facture, très joli son autant dans les graves que les aigus. Il me parait très souple au jeu, aucune difficulté pour passer du registre grave au médium et aigus. Monter au contre-ut / contre-ré se fait sans de difficulté (je parle en en Sib : il plus facile de lier les 7 doigtés de trompette aux 7 positions du trombone, et on reste dans la même tonalité pour le pistonné que je suis).

Le tout dans un très bel étui rigide, avec embouchure Yamaha, graisses a coulisse d'accord et à coulisse de jeu. Pour la graisse de la coulisse de jeu fournie avec l'instrument, je recommande par contre de changer pour la "Yamaha Slide Oil for Trombone", plus facile d'application pour un résultat bien meilleur.

This Trombone is of good quality. The slight is very smooth especially with the Yamaha slide liquid and a little bit of water. Forget the slide cream. It does not need a lot of air. I am not 100% sure if the middle C between the cleffs is at the right place right after the bell on third position. I find it that you have to play it a little closer to he second position. Otherwise the bone is tough. It fell at the airport from the trolley after I bought, though I had staffed it with tshirts in the bell, both the instrument and case were not damaged. I tried to clean it at two occasions after performance and the slide fell to the floor, no damage or even scratch marks. I only clean it at home on safely now. I now played it for almost 10 months. My conductor tried it and said sound, slide all good he too wants one ( he plays trombone and trumpet). He also use this mouth piece on a Getzen. I can't play high register with the mouth piece (48) though my colleague likes it. I use an alto trombone mouthpiece. I only use it indoors and at rare occasion, though for practice everyday, it aids my development. I play most church music in church and use an older trombone for funerals. I now also learned to play Euphonium to be able to still play at funerals. I certainly will buy another Yamaha brass instrument. Thomann had good service, when I bought these instruments via Belgium. However they did not allow me to buy via England though I wanted to pay cash like before (apart different rules for different countries). I will also buy from them again though.