Review: King SilverSonic Cornet, 1965

With a solid sterling silver bell and excellent design, this cornet lacks nothing. A very nice playing, great sounding instrument; I'll add my appreciation to H N White for producing such a great instrument.

[@dennispage8921]

I still have my late 1965 silversonic cornet. The trigger was a factory option. Used it during my Senior year of HS and into College. I’m 74 now and it looks just like new. The screw main tune slide was called a micrometer tuning slide. Hope one of my grandsons will play it.

[@JonathanMilam1]

Well, Dennis; you've had one of the best horns ever made. :) It's lucky you kept it. :) Thanks very much for commenting.

[@davenelms68]

Still have this cornet,same year, from high school marching and concert bands, Great cornet

[@JonathanMilam1]

A good SilverSonic is a wonderful thing, isn't it David? :)

[@lufknuht5960]

Curry large throat DV cup mouthpiece. Thanks for telling me about that. I plan to look into it.

[@JonathanMilam1]

Mark Curry's mouthpieces are very, very popular, and extremely affordable as well. :)

[@vicecitymodgameridol]

Great review! Amazing playing, cheers the best of lucks

[@JonathanMilam1]

Vice; thanks for commenting - very kind of you! Continued best wishes, Jonathan

[@chef7734]

Did you ever sell this horn?

[@JonathanMilam1]

Yes, Chef; I did sell this. And it came back up at TH after about 6 months... And sold again. Lovely little horn. The sterling silver yields a really clear sound, to my ears at least.

[@lufknuht5960]

"Ian White"? Isn't it N H White? Did you misspeak when you said trumpet for that cornet? Because of corrosion, I would avoid putting my bare hand & fingers on that horn. Don't you have a white velvit glove? I think that the Silversonic Trumpet has a sterling silver lead pipe (after the mouthpiece) in addition to the sterling silver bell. What about this corner? I think that these instruments deserve a (sterling) silver mouthpiece & that Yamaha used to make one. donno about now.

[@JonathanMilam1]

The name was H N White, and no; I don't use gloves to play. They can be a great help while polishing though. Some of these instruments did have what I think was a Nickel-Silver leadpipe; that's my preference actually, for there is less possibility of deterioration (redrot) in the leadpipe. These are really very nice cornets. I find the trumpets to be a bit harder to play - but I have enjoyed a number of these cornets.

[@Wanielyo]

Any more info on the mouthpieces used? Thanks

[@JonathanMilam1]

Dan, I used a Curry Vintage Cornet piece at first; it's a great mouthpiece. Large throat, deep V cup. Next, sorry I didn't say, I think is a Trent Austin Lead (TA Lead); great piece - it's a fairly shallow V with a pretty tight throat; maybe a 28 (?) and a Warburton 2 backbore (I think). Great question - I always try to say but sometimes forget. Thanks for watching! :)