The Schimd Custom Slides have been offered on and off for a few years and are now again available. Made from the same materials and using the same brass processing techniques as the custom horns I offer, these slides are being used by professionals from orchestras such as the Metropolitan Opera, Boston Symphony, Houston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and many other professional orchestras on their Schmid Double and Triple horns.
What to expect from these custom slides: a deepening and darkening of the sound, as well as taking away the edges of the box the horn seems to restrict a player to. The slots become wider, notes and sound are more even throughout the registers. These benefits result from the simple slide design, round crook radius and brass material used (processed in the same way as it is for our custom horn).
I personally didn't believe a set of slides would make such a tremendous difference, until I tried them myself on the Schmid. The improvement is immediately obvious.
The slides come as a set, for now limited to the Schmid Double and the High F triple horn models.
